Editing Vallès (section)

{{For|the municipality in the province of Valencia|Vallés, Valencia}}

[[File:Vallès.svg|thumb|300px|right|Location of Vallès within the autonomous community of Catalonia (limits 1936-2015).]]
'''El Vallès''' (or simply '''Vallès''') is a historical county in [[Catalonia]], [[Spain]], located in the center of the [[Catalan Pre-Coastal Range]]. It is nowadays represented by two separate administrative divisions ([[Comarques of Catalonia|''comarques'']]) which are part of the [[Barcelona Province (Spain)|Barcelona Province]]: the [[Vallès Occidental|Western Vallès]], which has two capitals, [[Sabadell]] and [[Terrassa]]; and the [[Vallès Oriental|Eastern Vallès]], with [[Granollers]] as its capital.

The present division of Vallès has its historical roots in the [[legal district]]s of Granollers and Terrassa, established in 1834. However, the first time this subdivision was explicitly used as sanctioned by law was in 1936, with the official division of Catalonia in ''comarques''. In 2015, four of the municipalities in Eastern Vallès became part of a newly created ''comarca'': the [[Moianès]]. Some parts of the Vallès region belong to the [[metropolitan area of Barcelona]] and the [[Àmbit Metropolità de Barcelona]](metropolitan region of Barcelona), and is nowadays connected with [[Barcelona]] with public transportations systems such as [[Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya|FGC]]'s so-called ''[[Metro del Vallès]]''.