The creation of the city centre of Cerdanyola began in 1828, but the territory that we know today as Cerdanyola del Vallès has been inhabited for over 600,000 years. The remains of Cerdanyola's first historical vestiges from that remote age can be found at the Ca n'Ortadó Museum.  The cultures that throughout history have occupied this part of the Vallès Plain and the Collserola Mountains, documented with the name of Cerdanyola since 956, have left testimonies to their existence in the form of archaeological remains, historical sites and unique buildings.

Follow Cerdanyola's timeline and learn about how the first settlers lived and about the daily life of the Iberian villages and, centuries later, of the farmhouses and country houses that were dispersed between two parish churches and under the protection of the Sant Marçal Castle. We will explain about the way of life at the beginning of the 20th century of the select holiday-maker, bohemian, middle class and artistic colony,\ and about Cerdanyola?s transformation from an agricultural landscape filled with rural villages to an industrial city.   Our museum tells the history of the entire territory to make this thousand-year history understandable. This is the idea behind a museum in the territory. Come and discover it.