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Llissach House
The Llissach house is part of a complex that is currently located in the town centre. The house is surrounded by a large garden area within an enclosed perimeter. It preserves part of the original iron fence as well as the entrance gate to the property, with an architectural structure consisting of a wide central iron gate and two side gates framed with pilasters and a cornice topped with pyramidal structures. Part of the gardens surrounding the tower are preserved within the estate, with a pergola, a water pond and a small house which is probably for gardener's tools. There are also some buildings at the eastern end that were stables for animals, a tower with a water tank on top and the house. The house is a ground-floor, two-storey building with a hip roof covered with Arabic tiles. The ground-floor porch on the north façade is notable for its series of semicircular arches with red-painted voussoirs that form an open gallery. This composition is repeated on the first floor, although the gallery is closed and the windows are lintelled, with lateral columns with Corinthian capitals painted red. This red decoration around the windows and horizontal dividing elements is repeated throughout. On the east façade, on the ground floor, there is a structure located in the central part of the façade, with a terrace which is accessible from the first floor. This house is an example of the first summer holiday houses built in the municipality of Santpedor at the end of the 19th century. On the eastern side of the estate, bordering the street, there is a group of buildings that had been used as livestock boxes. It is a single-storey building, with a two-storey central element, a gable roof and a series of doors that open into the interior of the estate, with an enclosed outdoor corral in front of some of them. There is red brick decoration on the roof barbican, as well as unique decoration on the façade between the gates. This building also has this decorative mix between the light-coloured rendering of the façade, occasional red brick elements and the grey stone masonry plinth. Next to the building is an old tower that supports a water tank on the upper level. It is a circular tower with a crown in the form of triangular battlements enclosed by an iron railing and supported by brick pilasters. Below the crowning is an interior space with open windows between the pilasters. Access to this space is via an external spiral staircase that follows the tower. The decoration maintains the characteristics of the whole, with elements of red brick. There is also a small house that was used for playing dolls, located in the garden, which follows the same architectural structure as the rest of the complex. This house was built by the Llissach family at the end of the 19th century, as a summer estate in Santpedor. In 1907, land was bought to extend the estate and it is possible that the water tower, designed by Puig i Cadafalch, was built at that time. This intervention is the result of the friendly relationship between the architect and Serafina Jover de Llissach, as can be seen in a series of letters preserved in the National Archive. In 1917 the house was renovated, also bearing the architect's signature. In 1934 the house and the estate were acquired by the Manresa merchant Joan Jorba Rius. The last owner of the house created a board of trustees that began the process of building the new school for girls on the grounds of the former Armangué factory. Classes began in this new building in 1968, and it was intended only for girls. From 1973 onwards, joint classes were held in the new Llissach school, which still bears this name.1907 - 1917
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Santpedor Agricultural Union Winery
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The winery consisted of a nave with a wooden truss roof and fibre cement sheets, designed to hold the vats, with an adjoining room at the rear, used as a grape loading bay and for machinery. Both spaces were connected by pointed brick arches. On the sides, there were pointed brick windows. On the façade, there was a very simple rectangular door, above which there was a simple tripartite window. The vats were lined up in two rows, leaving a corridor in between, which in 1931 was used for underground wine presses; two side buildings were also added, giving it its basilica-like appearance. Although the Santpedor Agricultural Union was established in 1904, it was not until much later that a winery was built. In 1915, the Caja Rural was founded, which, with the savings of its members, was the driving force behind the construction of a winery. Father Josep Soler, the soul of the Union, and Josep Oms, president of the Agricultural Chamber of Pla de Bages, collaborated in this effort. The Directorate-General for Agriculture of the Mancomunitat provided advice on the construction of the winery. Between 1921 and 1922, two plots of land were purchased, on which the winery and a flour mill were built (Santpedor was known as the granary of Bages). The members contributed to the construction of the winery with their capital or their labour (carrying stone or working as labourers). The winery, which was the first in Bages, was inaugurated in 1923. The winery is currently closed.first half of the 20th century
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Auditorium in the Convent of Sant Francesc
The convent of Sant Francesc, located in the town of Santpedor, was built at the beginning of the 18th century. In 1835, when the convent was sacked, the building began to deteriorate progressively, culminating in the demolition of the complex in the year 2000. Only the church remained standing, in a completely ruinous state. The project aimed to convert the church into an auditorium and cultural centre. The work has consolidated the church without erasing the process of deterioration and collapse that the building had suffered. The project has made it possible to maintain the spatial values of the church's interior, with the unusual light entering through the partial collapses of the roofs, clearly differentiating the original construction from the new elements. The final result allows the building's most important historical wounds and spatial values to be read without renouncing the use of a contemporary language in the new elements proposed in the intervention. The new volumes necessary for the functioning of the equipment (installation rooms or vertical accesses) have been placed between the interior and exterior of the building with the aim of preserving the unitary space of the nave of the church. The new accesses have been designed in such a way as to allow a complete circular route through the building, generating unique and diverse views. The intervention has sought to preserve the historical legacy of the building while adding new features that enhance and distinguish the church of the former convent of Sant Francesc in a contemporary way. In the future, a final phase is planned to complete the project by locating the municipality's historical archive on the upper floors on the south side of the church.2006 - 2011