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.

The Northern Station is located on the grounds of Fort Pius, a military installation whose purpose was to prevent the siege of the Ciutadella, located a few hundred metres to the south. It began as an uncovered train station that was successively expanded and reformed over time until, in the first decade of the 20th century, Demetri Ribes (also author of the North Station of Valencia) organised the cover and the main and representative façades towards Nàpols and Vilanova Streets. This structure is preserved, perfectly restored, and is of high architectural interest, with a style of pavilions surrounding the main deck, well ornamented and tense. It is remarkable to see how the original level of the station has left it below the surrounding streets. The station was abandoned when it ceased to be useful and remained so until the mid-1980s, when, taking advantage of the Olympic Games, it was restored by order of Barcelona City Council. The restoration falls to the architects Tous and Fargas, who define a multifunctional complex that creates a park to the south of the station, in the track area (built by Arriola & Fiol) and leaves the interior converted into a sports complex, originally used for the table tennis events of the Olympic Games. The current use perfectly respects the original space and highlights its beauty. In the northern part of the building, turning the long northern façade almost into a partition, there is the bus station terminal, with a system of translucent pergolas parallel to the old station. The spaces therefore continue to retain their civic character. All of them can be visited and it is worth checking how a historic building designed for a very specific program can serve another radically different one with the same success, maintaining the validity of the building and the arrangement proposed by an equipment of this scale.

Located in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, the Vallvidrera Funicular Station faces onto Plaça Pep Ventura, at the junction of Queralt and Alberes streets, both within the Vallvidrera neighbourhood. The building connects the railway station at the foot of the mountain with the village situated at its summit. The semi-basement levels house the mechanical installations and passenger arrival platforms, while the ground floor is devoted to passenger services and the upper floor contains the company’s administrative offices. Access to the funicular is provided through the main façade facing the square, whereas passengers arriving at the station exit via an external passage at the corner of the plot, without entering the building itself. The façade features a lower section extending the full height of the ground floor, forming a plinth of irregular stonework. Openings for windows and doors punctuate this textured surface, their sinuous forms creating arches of varying centres. Both the shapes and the use of exposed brick in the intrados are stylistic devices characteristic of Catalan Art Nouveau. The upper part of the building is composed of paired openings devoid of ornamentation. Decorative emphasis is instead reserved for the crowning elements of the façade, where simple linear geometric motifs embellish the parapet and define the four corners as geometrised pinnacles. These crowning features are finished with delicate wrought-iron details. Particular note should be made of the small tower-like rooftop structure (“badalot”) attached to the main volume, which rises above it in height and displays more elaborate decoration in the same stylistic language, including ceramic medallions. The roof itself is flat and accessible as a terrace. Inside, the vestibule contains a secondary arcade enclosed with joinery and glass that replicates the forms of the principal entrance arch. Artistically, special attention should also be given to the site enclosure, which echoes the formal language of the building’s stone plinth, the ceramic decoration of the façade, and the wrought-iron craftsmanship of the entrance gates, distinguished by their elongated whip-like curves. Stylistically, the building is regarded as a work of Catalan Art Nouveau. While the ground floor is dominated by sinuous openings and an innovative combination of materials, the upper section adopts a more restrained decorative approach influenced by Central European architecture, yet executed using materials characteristic of Catalan Art Nouveau.

Isolated building, facing the street and the square. It has a central body with a ground floor and two landings, and two lateral bodies with a ground floor and a main floor. There is a roof top. It features a large, cantilevered shed. It shows an eclectic language with modernist interior details. The station is located in an urbanised area as a result of the arrival of the train in Vilafranca. There are sheds and loading and unloading docks. It has a connection with the warehouses on Comerç Street. The railway area is of great formal and historical interest. The provisional station was built in 1865, the date of the train’s first arrival in Vilafranca (inland line from Martorell to Tarragona). The inauguration of the definitive station did not take place until 1911.

Bridge which is 85 meters long, of very fine craftsmanship and monumental appearance — a quality especially conferred by the entrance arch, built with hewn stone blocks that form a composition of perfect architectural lines. It has six semicircular arches, each 14 meters wide, framed in brick. On both sides we can see a balustrade which matches the style of the canal’s railing. The pavement is asphalt, with sidewalks on either side. In 1920, construction began on this stone bridge, sponsored by the Calvet company. It is the only bridge in the entire Torelló area that withstood the 1940 flood, although the abutments on the north side were damaged when they were undermined and later repaired by the Ymbern company. Until the Borgonyà bridge was built in 1957, all traffic between Torelló and the Pyrenean counties had to pass through this point.

Bridge with a slab deck that spans the difference in level of the old Vallcarca stream, now the Avinguda del Hospital Militar, which ran between the Coll and Putxet hills. Since 1923, it has been the main access road to the Coll neighbourhood via Plaça de Mons and Avinguda Argentina, both for road and pedestrian traffic. For the time, it was a fairly advanced engineering work, as the structure was made of concrete reinforced with iron, a technique that made it possible to cement a complex work set in the banks of a stream. The supporting elements are covered with stone and exposed brick, forming semicircular balconies at the top, like a belvedere. In the space between the dividing walls there are relief decorations representing the coat of arms of Catalonia and Sant Jordi flanked by winged lions; above the railing decorated with geometric coffered ceilings there are also pinnacles in the Sezession style.

The collective transport system called the Funi was inaugurated on November 1, 1924, with the aim of connecting the train station and the industrial area with the old quarter. The promoter of the idea was priest Jaume Via and Josep Rosell i Massana. The work was directed by Santiago Rubió i Tudurí, engineer of the Tibidabo cable car. Upper and lower station are still to be preserved. It was mainly used by paper mill workers, train passengers and residents of the Sant Salvador neighbourhood. The fundamental data are: Length of the route: 860 metres. Maximum slope: 22%. Difference in level between stations: 103 metres. Travel time: 8 minutes. Traction cable length: 935 metres. The cable has a diameter of 29.5 millimetres and slides over a set of 103 pairs of pulleys. On September 19, 1920, the Funicular de Gelida, SA company was established. In 1926 the Funi carried approximately 100,000 passengers. It has become one of the most emblematic elements of Gelida.