Population: 1.669 inhabitants (2001) - Surface: 35'10 km² - Density: 47,55 h/km² - Altitude: 381 m - Bigger parties: 15 August and 7 January (Sant Ramon de Penyafort) - Other parties: Mare de Déu de les Neus (beginnings of August) - Fair of Autumn: Third weekend of October - Weekly market: Monday

    The municipal term of the Pla of Santa Maria, located in the nor them sector of the region of the Alt Camp, in extended flat earth by the Miramar and the Voltorera mountain range. The main communication channel is the freeway A2 from Barcelona to Lleida with exit to the village. Also crosses the population the local highway of Valls to Igualada, the one of Vila-rodona to Sarral and leaves the one that takes to Figuerola del Camp. The urban nucleus is formed by more than 800 houses. The urbanizations of the Vedat and the Tower of Santa Maria are within the term. The population counts on equipped municipal good services, such as service of drinking water, purification of sewage water, natural gas, Basic Area of Health, state school, day-care centers, civic center "La Pista", library, room of acts, room of organizations, municipal radio station, pavilion multi-sports (sport center), swimming pools, pitch of football, tennis courts, etc. As for the social life, the Pla of Santa Maria has been always a town with much citizen participation. Numerous associations exist: of sport and cultural character or politician.

   The great surface of its term in cultivated of almonds tree, hazels, olive trees, vine and barley. We can observe the typical dry stone cabins that served as shelter for the farmers. The old nucleus of the town is plain and marked by the entrance halls that used to give access to the village long ago, some of them since the medieval period. At the right side of the church, in the Major street, we will find Cal Robinat, which has a façade with esgrafiats of the XIII century, very characteristic of the Alt Camp.

    THE NAME OF THE VILLA - The place that occupies the Pla of Santa Maria, was originally comprised on the Castell de Cabra term. It was populated in the middle of the XII century, when the church of Santa Maria already existed, reason by which the town was called Santa Maria of the Pla, although in 1178 it received the name of Pla de Cabra. This last name, in one or other variants, ended up prevailing to the official of Villalba.

   SANTA MARIA'S CHURCH - In the Pla of Santa Maria it also emphasizes the Santa Mari's church, located into the old nucleus, that surprises by its proportions and the architectonic style of the façade. It was built art the end of the XVIII century, following the baroque style. The lintel of the entrance has a great coat of arms of the villa and an outstanding sculptural ornamentation that has been kept in all the constructive elements.

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