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Cultural and Recreational Centre
autoria desconeguda
Large house between partitions, with a gable roof, two floors, a setback floor and a more sunken space at the back. Based on the classical forms of the façade, there is a large room with pilasters and vaults and a staircase leading to the upper floor where there is a spacious room with mouldings, paintings and a flat ceiling from 1877, and several annexed services. Dances, cultural events, theatre, etc., were held in the Cultural and Recreational Centre of Gelida until 1933, year in which a new café was inaugurated (the current Café de la Pista del Casal Gelidenc). The ground floor was occupied by the café, presided over by a painting evoking the reapers of the Corpus de Sang of 1640. In 1939, it was occupied by the "Frente de Juventudes" and later acquired by the Gelida City Council.1877
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1872 - 1878
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1876 - 1880
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Torre Mena
autoria desconeguda
Torre de baixos i dos pisos al cos central i d'un sol pis als laterals. Al nivell de la planta noble del cos central, un balcó molt sortit es recolza sobre columnetes de ferro. Conjuga, amb sentit eclèctic, elements clàssics, com les columnes del vestíbul, els carreus en punta de diamant, les obertures i les proporcions en general amb elements medievals, com els merlets i la torreta central. El jardí d'accés a la torre ha estat eliminat per a obrir l'avinguda del Marquès de Sant Mori i ampliar la plaça Trafalgar.1880
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1887
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1888
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Agricultural Centre of Vilafranca del Penedès
The building is located in the 19th century Eixample. The main façade overlooks the Rambla de Nostra Senyora. It is a construction between partitions and it is at the corner of a covered passage through which it is accessed. It consists of a ground floor and a main floor, with an Arabic tile roof on two sides facing the side façades. It presents an eclectic language with reminiscences of wooden agricultural constructions and ceramic tiles. The Agricultural Centre was the society of rural owners. Their agricultural talks started in 1900. There were also artistic demonstrations and dances. During the Civil War it was the Revolutionary Committee’s headquarters. Later, a cinema was built inside.1892
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Fontova Theatre and Ateneu Unió
autoria desconeguda
Set of two buildings with a simple line and structure, which follows the Catalan Art Nouveau principles in its historicist aspect. The theatre presents a two-storey façade with a gable roof and with some finishes simulating a non-existent turret, like Danés i Torras’ type 2-IV country houses. But this is reduced to a vertical extension of the façade wall without any subsequent structure. On the ground floor there is a central door with two large rectangular windows now boarded up that retain their initial forgings and dated from 1903. The first floor has a small central opening and a simple border of sgraffito simulating a pediment that frames the name of the theatre and date of construction. The annex building, the café, also follows the historicist line but more like a manor. It has two floors, with large rectangular openings on the sides of the door on the ground floor and three balconies on the first floor, the central one a little bigger than the lateral but without other extensions. Both the doors and the windows are highlighted by a wide strip of smooth stucco just like in the theatre. This feature and the wide common plinth is the nexus of physical and aesthetic union between the two buildings, probably connected by the interior, as was usual. In the construction of the colony, the recreational aspect could not be neglected in order to achieve an authentic social atmosphere. The creation of the café and the theatre, if we stick to the dates, started earlier. At the beginning of the century, gathering for coffee, playing cards and having small talk were, together with professional or amateur theatre, the most common distraction (someone said that "if Catalans don't go to the theatre much it's because they are all on the 'stage...'). The café still stands to this day and is still the largest and liveliest in the colony. -
Cor de Marina
El "Coro de Marina" fou fundat el 1882.. Edifici entre mitgeres, amb planta baixa, entresòl, pis i golfes, amb semisoterrani. La seva estructura és de ferro. Té dues façanes, de les quals, la principal dona a la Rambla i al mar, i té una composició d'elements formals típics de l'eclecticisme.1896
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1897
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1898
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second half of the 19th century
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Cercle Mercantil
Francesc de Paula Sellés Vilaró
The Mercantil building follows an eclectic style. The façade can be divided into five parts: the main entrance is located in the central, most advanced part. The name of the entity is located at the top and the year of its foundation in the centre, and a covered gallery connects both ends with the central part. The decorative elements are the sgraffito, placed on the tympanums of the two openings flanking the building, and the metallic-effect ceramic frieze. Inside, the theatre is particularly noteworthy: upon entering, we find the amphitheatre, and then the stalls surrounded on either side by galleries. The first floor has a central area with armchairs and two side areas with tiers of seats. The whole building is surrounded by a well-tended garden. The Mercantile, Industrial and Agricultural Centre was founded in 1899 as a result of a disagreement between several members of the former Casino de Recreo, some of whom were supporters of the Godó family and others of the Boyer family. The organisation's social club was built on the site of the former Tívoli theatre, and its inauguration coincided with the town's annual festival in 1899. The Mercantile Circle celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1949. It contains a theatre, a café-lounge and a ballroom. It was built according to a design by architect Francisco de B. Galtés, with the construction supervised by Francesc Sellés, decoration by Frederic Brunet and painting by Bartomeu Camps and Antoni Tomàs.1893 - 1899
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Igualada Working Class Cultural Association
Pau Riera i Galtés, Pau Salvat i Espasa
One-storey building. The façade is divided into three sections - a central section with three doorways and three windows, and two side sections with four openings each. Once up the entrance stairs, we find ourselves in a large atrium, formerly a theatre, which now serves as a hallway leading to the different rooms: library, theatre, café and office. Art Nouveau leaded glass windows above the doors alternate floral representations with allegories of the organisation. The theatre, attributed to the architect Pau Salvat i Espasa, is the most important room. Structurally, it is horseshoe-shaped and consists of a stalls area and two floors. The decorative features include the frieze surrounding the ceiling and the iron railings, designed by the Igualada-born set designer Pere Valls i Bofarull. Outside, the Municipal School of Music is located to the left of the building and the garden is to the right, with a fountain decorated with trencadís mosaic. The Athenaeum was founded in the heat of the romantic progressivism that was in vogue in Catalonia during the second half of the last century, and its combination of cultural, educational and recreational activities played a fundamental role in spreading progressive ideas and popular culture. After the fire that destroyed the old headquarters in 1873, the current building was constructed in 1877. In the 19th century, it ran a primary school, a theatre and a library. Between 1919 and 1935, the organisation gained momentum with the establishment of a school group linked to the Catalan educational movement, a music conservatory, a weaving school and a sports ground. After 1939, the national forces seized the building and it was renamed the ‘National Centre’.1900
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1903
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1904
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Refurbishment for the headquarters of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya
Barcelona's Roman temple dedicated to Augustus was located at the top of Mount Taber, and part of its remains were embedded in medieval constructions. In 1903 Domènech renovated the building as the headquarters of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Despite several studies of the temple, many elements were lost in the rubble of the old houses at the end of the 19th century. In 1879, an entire column was saved and displayed in the Plaça del Rei. Three other columns were found inside the medieval building that housed the old cathedral canons' manor house, embedded between several slabs. This building was rented in 1878 by the Associació Catalana d'Excursions Científiques (Catalan Association of Scientific Excursions), now known as the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. In 1902, the publisher Ramon de Montaner, Lluís Domènech's uncle, bought the entire building. His initial intention was to take the columns and integrate them into the Castle of Santa Florentina. But they finally changed his mind, and he commissioned his nephew to refurbish the building as the headquarters of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. The intervention consisted mainly of remodelling the interior of the building to leave the Roman columns exposed, fully visible in an interior courtyard protected by a skylight. A new staircase was built to access the main floor and a gallery to connect the two sides of the courtyard, reinterpreting the Gothic style. The opening of large windows and the replacement of the stone railings with light metallic elements was done with the aim of giving greater visibility to the columns from inside the rooms. Domènech left the space prepared for the fourth column found, which was on display in the Plaça del Rei, but bureaucracy did not allow it to be repositioned. Finally, in 1956, when Barcelona City Council had already bought the building, it was moved. It is still the headquarters of the CEC today.1903 - 1905
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1905
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1904 - 1906