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Horta's agricultural past

The Joan Oliver-Pere Quart Civic Centre is inviting you to a walk through the neighbourhood to discover the farmhouses, orchards and mansions that used to populate the area.

Horta, located in between the neighbourhoods of Guinardó, Carmel and Nou Barris, has an agricultural past full of farmhouses, orchards and mansions that made it the capital of the time. Horta: masies i bugaders is one of the routes the Joan Oliver-Pere Quart Civic Centre is proposing to get to know the district's past that went from farms to noble palaces. This situation promoted the construction of wells and irrigation ditches, which resulted in lots of laundry areas where working women could earn extra income by washing the clothes of the city's wealthy families. On this walk, you will discover all these spaces. In addition, you will see some of the mansions of the period, which later turned into city facilities. Some have been converted into libraries; others into seminaries, public gardens or universities.

Mercedes Castelló Rodríguez will lead the tour. An Art History graduate and official guide of Catalonia with 20 years of experience, she will show you one of the most surprising streets in the area, the Carrer Aiguafreda. This street is the only one that has managed to survive to the present day, where you can still see traces of the past of these washerwomen who, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, worked for the city's wealthy.

The itinerary will take place on Wednesday, 12 January 2022, at 11 a.m. The meeting point will be Plaça Eivissa (the Horta metro exit), and the registration fee is 10.33 euros. You can register through this link.

Publication date: Monday, 03 January 2022
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