Viladecans

=HISTORY=

We don't know much about the history of Viladecans before Xth century. An archeological sight has been found in Riera de Sant LLorenç( Can Guardiola) recently. In this archieological sight big mammals such as rhynos and mamuts have been discovered together with hand-made silex tools dating from 20.000 to 100.000 years ago, which makes it evident that this areas was inhabited at that time

. As fas as the town is concerned, historians believe that it was a roman villa devoted to agriculture in the I century. The village was situated where we have in Ermina de Sales. Some pre-roman evidences were found in Sant Ramón montain. Iberian remains belonging to Laietans tribe.

** Siglos X-XVII **
The name "Viladecans" dates from the year 1000, it refers to the name of a village called "canis vallis", which coincides with "Villa de Canibus", which appear in church documents.Gavà and Viladecans belonged to the Burgues family, who owned them for three centuries.