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Planell House
autoria desconeguda
Residential building with a ground floor and four upper storeys, featuring a cornice and a flat roof terrace. The main façade on Baixada de la Seu is symmetrically arranged along three vertical axes, corresponding to the three ground-floor entrances. It follows a classical typology with a mezzanine, main floor, and two additional upper floors, with social hierarchy reflected in the design of the balconies: the mezzanine has railings flush with the façade; the main floor features a continuous balcony; and the upper floors have individual balconies that decrease in height. Pilasters separating the balconies are nearly flat and topped with Ionic capitals. The cornice is decorated with modillions and overlapping tile motifs. The façade on Carrer del Bisbe is flat and sparsely fenestrated.1832
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Fountain of Neptune
The Fountain-Monument has three parts: a base, a column and a statue. The base is square with eight springs, which are reliefs of human faces. The column is Doric in style, with the lower part of the shaft fluted and the upper part featuring girls dancing with water jugs in their hands (a symbol of civic joy). The base has garlands on the sides and animals on the corners. The statue represents King Neptune crowned and holding a trident in his right hand. The Espelt water gate had a spectacular effect on the town, and the best evidence of this can be seen in the monuments erected to commemorate the event. The monument was part of a group of four public fountains designed as the culmination of the water gate. The fountain was designed by Francesc Vallès, an engineer of French descent, and the artistic work was carried out by the sculptor Damià Campeny. It was inaugurated on 11 June 1832. In 1970, the town council had the monument rebuilt. The work was carried out by Hugo Pratch under the direction of the architect Joan Bassegoda Nonell. -
Cementiri de Vic
autoria desconeguda
Forma un clos rectangular de direcció N-S, amb una capella al centre del mur nord i un portal d'accés al recinte de la part sud, amb fileres de nínxols a banda i banda. El portal presenta dues columnes estriades, amb capitells que sostenen un arquitrau, damunt del qual hi ha una creu de marbre i una làpida, també de marbre amb un rellotge de sorra, una torxa i una dalla. Damunt de l'arquitrau hi ha una inscripció. En el mateix mur del portal, de cara a migdia hi ha dues torrelles de pedra picada que trenquen la monotonia del mur. És construït amb totxo i arrebossat al damunt. L'estat de conservació és força bo. Capella del cementiri: Es troba adossada al mur nord del recinte, mirant vers migdia. És de petites dimensions i presenta un atri, amb frontó triangular sense decorar i l'arquitrau, també llis. Aquests elements són sostinguts per columnes de fust llis. El portal d'accés és rectangular. L'edifici és cobert a dues vessants i el capcer és triangular formant una mena de frontó, coronat per un petit campaneret d'espadanya amb campana.1834
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1838
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1839
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En Xifré Housing
Josep Buxareu i Gallart, Francesc Vila
Es tracta d’un bloc format per cinc cases concebudes amb un tractament unitari. La composició respon als criteris del neoclassicisme i incorpora l’ús de porxos a la planta baixa. A la façana destaquen els elements decoratius de terracota i de ferro fos, utilitzats tant amb funció ornamental com estructural. L’edifici forma part d’un projecte més ampli d’ordenació urbanística de tot el sector.1836 - 1840
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1840
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Pòrtic d'Accés al Cementiri Vell de Barcelona
Element lineal i simètric compost per dos cossos principals destinats a l’administració i als serveis del cementiri. El conjunt actua com a separació entre la zona d’arribada i enjardinada, i l’espai pròpiament destinat als enterraments. -
Torre d'en Brunet
autoria desconeguda
Located to the southeast of the centre of Sant Salvador de Guardiola, near the new Brunet House. The Brunet tower was a military optical telegraphy tower. The building has the classic typology of this type of construction. It was square in plan and had a rectangular defensive body attached to the north face, and was surrounded by a moat. In elevation, it consisted of a slightly embattled ground floor with four loopholes on each side, an upper floor with loopholes and windows, and finally a roof terrace (partially in ruins). The entrance door opened at the height of the first floor on the south side, probably accessed by means of a wooden staircase that was kept inside. The walls are made of rusticated stone masonry and the division between the floors is marked by a protruding profile. The Brunet tower was part of the Barcelona-Manresa-Solsona military optical telegraphy line. This line shared the first seven telegraph towers with the Barcelona-Lérida line. Thus, the line began at the tower of Montjuïc Castle and continued to the tower of Can Maçana or La Guardia, in the village of El Bruc. It then turned north towards the Brunet tower. The Brunet tower, 420 m high, had a direct line of sight to the previous tower of Can Maçana del Bruc, located 7.4 km away to the south. The rear tower was Puigterrà de Manresa, 6.8 km to the north (no longer standing). The later tower preserved in the latter is that of Sant Martí de Torroella in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada. The Brunet tower was part of the Barcelona-Manresa-Solsona military optical telegraphy line. Optical telegraphy is a system based on a series of signals made at a high point, such as a tower or a bell tower, by an operator, which another operator sees from another point, communicated visually, and repeats it; in this way a message can be transmitted quickly from one point to another on the line. There were various ways of making the signals, such as a tall wooden pole with two crossbeams at the ends which, operated by pulleys, could change position – each position was a letter or key which, thanks to a book of keys, could be deciphered. The operators had long-sighted glasses that allowed the distance between the different points to be greater than if they did not have them. While in countries such as France and England optical telegraphy lines had already been built at the end of the 18th century, in Spain construction did not begin until 1844, by which time electric telegraphy had already begun to be used in some countries. The creation of a line involved the installation of communication systems on existing high points or the construction of towers in places where the distance was too great. In Catalonia, the first line came from Valencia and reached La Jonquera via Barcelona. During the Second Carlist War (1846-1849), the Marquis of Duero, Captain General of Catalonia, commissioned the development of an important military fixed optical telegraphy network. Six lines were created, including the Manresa - Vic - Girona line. In 1853, the first electric telegraphy line was built between Madrid and Irún, which marked the beginning of the abandonment of optical telegraphy and the disuse of the towers built for this purpose. In 1857, the civil telegraphy towers were dismantled and abandoned, and in 1862 the military towers were officially abandoned. This marked the end of the short history of optical telegraphy in Catalonia, but which left the telegraph towers as a witness.1844
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Sedó Colony
autoria desconeguda
Former textile factory with several warehouses, chimneys, an aqueduct, houses for the workers and a church with a school. They are simple and functional stone and brick constructions with gable roofs. The preserved chimneys have various shapes, from rectangular to helical. The 1400 HP Turbine Planas is preserved. The Sedó Colony was founded in 1846 by Miquel Puig i Catasús, who built a textile factory o an old flour mill that already existed ("Can Broquetes"). It would grow rapidly until it adopted the characteristics of an industrial colony and, finally, in the 20th century, it would become one of the largest and most important companies in the economic and industrial history of Catalonia. After the death of Miquel Puig (1863), he was replaced by his son, Josep Puig i Llagostera, who started the construction of houses for the workers, expanded the factory and planned various development works. His administrator and substitute, Antoni Sedó i Pàmies, was who would culminate the process of growth and formation of the industrial colony that would bear his name and who developed the entire textile production process. At the same time, he enlarged the workers' colony with new housing for the workers and their families, with the installation of shops, schools, the church, a dispensary, cinema and casino, among others. The workers' colony was located right next to the factory and was structured in elongated blocks of ground-floor and two-storey houses that formed seven parallel streets. In the middle of these parallel streets was the church and, on either side, the schools. After the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, the colony reached its maximum growth, but, at the same time, the first symptoms of crisis would begin. Currently, the Sedó colony has been converted into an important industrial estate where there are different companies and industrial activities. The central core of the Sedó Colony Museum is located in one of these industrial spaces.1846
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Manresa Cemetery
Monumental façade with the main door decorated with pilasters and a large cornice, under which there is a frieze with a bas-relief depicting Jesus climbing to Calvary. The side walls of the door are decorated with large tombstones. Inside, the door reproduces the façade of a Greek temple with two columns with Doric capitals and a triangular pediment. On each side, there is a corridor with classical columns (12 on each side) in the Tuscan order, leading to the church. These corridors feature niches, some of which are of great artistic value. Inside the enclosure formed by the porticoes and the entrance, family pantheons and tombs are scattered in an orderly fashion, some of them true works of architecture and sculpture of great quality, making the complex an attractive showcase of late 19th and early 20th century styles. Of particular note are the tomb of the Portabella i Argullol family, built by the architect Bernat Pejoan and the sculptor Josep Llimona; the Serra i Santamans family mausoleum, in the Neo-Romanesque style; and the Borràs family mausoleum, in the Neo-Gothic style. The cemetery chapel has a classical composition and design, which is very well suited to the exterior and interior façade. The building project is from 1846. -
Casa Pau de Barnola i d'Espona
Edifici entre mitgeres de planta baixa i quatre plantes, estructurat al voltant d’un pati central accessible des del carrer, des del qual arrenca l’escala que comunica amb les plantes superiors. La planta presenta un esquema simètric que es reflecteix també en la façana, amb una composició vinculada a la dels edificis del perímetre de la plaça Reial. Les tres primeres plantes s’articulen mitjançant una composició d’ordre superior, amb columnes estriades coronades per grans capitells jònics que sostenen una cornisa destacada. Entre aquesta i la cornisa superior, rematada amb permòdols decorats, se situa la quarta planta. La unitat de les tres primeres plantes queda reforçada per un balcó corregut al pis principal, que emmarca inferiorment aquesta composició d’inspiració clàssica.1847
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Casa Xuriguer
Francesc Daniel Molina i Casamajor
Edifici entre mitgeres de planta baixa i i cinc pisos, que destaca pels relleus i el fris superior de terracota amb motius al·legòrics al teatre. La façana presenta una marcada simetria vertical, que n’ordena la composició. A la segona planta hi sobresurt una balconada, mentre que una cornisa potent separa els pisos quart i cinquè. Finalment, una balustrada corona la part superior de l’edifici. -
Casa Antoni Sala i Brugués
Francesc Daniel Molina i Casamajor
Edifici entre mitgeres de planta baixa i quatre plantes, amb una composició pròpia del segle XIX i una façana ordenada i regular. A la primera planta destaca una balconera correguda, mentre que a la resta de nivells hi ha tres balcons per pis que disminueixen progressivament cap amunt, generant un efecte de perspectiva. En aquest primer nivell s’hi desenvolupa un pas circumdant d’estil neoclàssic, resolt amb columnes de capitell motllurat, que aporta singularitat al conjunt. L’element més rellevant és el pati interior, de planta quadrada, amb una obertura per planta a cada façana. A la façana frontal del pati hi ha un tram d’escala que condueix a l’accés principal dels habitatges, amb quatre habitatges per replà. Les obertures del primer pis estan emmarcades per columnes rematades amb motllures, mentre que a la tercera planta les obertures són de llinda. -
Casa Joan Cabot
Edifici entre mitgeres de planta baixa, pis principal i quatre pisos superiors. Com a elements singulars cal destacar les decoracions de terracota, especialment situades als brancals i llindes dels balcons del pis principal, així com els medallons amb cares d’home i dona que ocupen els espais entre les obertures d’aquesta planta. Aquest mateix esquema decoratiu es repeteix a la façana del carrer del Vidre, tot i que sense la decoració específica dels entorns dels balcons. -
Restauració i Façana del Teatre Principal
Francesc Daniel Molina i Casamajor
La façana es compon de tres arcades que arrenquen al primer pis, on s’obre una balconada de marbre. Tant al centre com als extrems s’hi disposen figures al·legòriques. El conjunt queda rematat per un frontó semicircular amb rellotge, baix relleus i plafons amb figures decoratives. L’edifici tenia un ús polivalent i incloïa botigues, un night club, cinema, cabaret, club d’escacs i billar, així com taquilles per a la venda d’entrades de braus.1847 - 1848
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Casa Pau Soler i Trenchs
Francesc Daniel Molina i Casamajor
Composició inscrita dins l’estil de la Plaça Reial, amb una estructura de planta baixa, pis principal i dues plantes superiors, aquestes darreres articulades per un ordre nou format per columnes estriades amb capitells compostos que sostenen una cornisa elevada amb permòdols. A diferència del que és habitual, no hi ha una tercera planta per damunt d’aquesta cornisa, sinó que s’hi disposa directament una coberta a la catalana. Cal remarcar la complexitat dels enreixats dels balcons, així com la riquesa decorativa dels permòdols situats sota les llosanes.1848
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Casa Josep Gené
Edifici entre mitgeres en cantonada, de planta baixa i quatre plantes. La façana presenta un tractament acurat, amb obertures emmarcades per brancals i llindes de pedra. Es produeix una progressiva reducció dels balcons en alçada, amb baranes de ferro. La composició es completa amb una imposta que marca el forjat de l’última planta i una cornisa de coronament. Destaca la presència d’elements ornamentals verticals amb motius vegetals i medallons de terracota. -
Casa Baulés
Aquest edifici típic del segle XIX destaca per la qualitat de la seva composició arquitectònica i per la riquesa decorativa de la façana. Consta de planta baixa, entresòl i quatre pisos, organitzats segons una composició classicista i equilibrada. La façana incorpora elements ornamentals característics de l’època, com la decoració de terracota al primer pis, columnes adossades, balustres a l’últim nivell i una cornisa de coronament que reforça l’elegància i unitat del conjunt. -
Casa Bonaventura Roig
Façana de composició simètrica, articulada a partir de tres balcons per planta, a excepció del pis principal, que presenta un balcó corregut de cap a cap. L’edifici consta de planta baixa, un pis principal, decorat amb medallons de terracota que representen figures humanes, dos pisos superiors units verticalment per grans elements també de terracota, i una darrera planta situada sota la cornisa, sense cap tipus de decoració. Cal destacar la qualitat dels enreixats dels balcons, de caràcter marcadament barroc. -
Estació Vella
Three-storey building with an iron porch. It has a separate toilet block. With its classic appearance and stuccoed brick façade, it distinguished the stations of the M.Z.A. railway line in the area.

































