 Enric Miralles, who died in year 2000 is buried in one of the tombs.The Basilica of Santa Maria is the most important historical building of Igualada.The first settlement of Igualada is dated around year 1000, in the location were the current church lies today, which was at that time a crossing of two routes which were linking Barcelona with Aragon, and north of Catalonia with its south.