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Casa de l’Aigua

The secrets of Casa de l'Aigua

The Museu d'Història de Barcelona is offering guided tours two Saturdays a month during the summer.

Casa de l'Aigua, built by Barcelona’s municipal corporation Aguas de Montcada between 1915 and 1919, is one of the buildings that make up the Museu d'Història de Barcelona (MUHBA).  The building's purpose was to renew the city's drinking water supply after the typhus epidemic of 1914, caused by the contamination of the water distributed until then. The Casa served as a water storage, purification and chlorination station and was operational until 1989 when it was abandoned and fell into a degradation process. The Barcelona City Council carried out an upgrade of the heritage complex between 2007 and 2013, and on 22 March 2018, on World Water Day, they reopened the entire complex. Thanks to the remodelling, we can now visit the Casa de l'Aigua, a crucial building for the city's history.

This summer, the MUHBA is planning to offer a series of guided tours of this building, giving people a unique opportunity to discover more of the history that surrounds it. Did you know that the initial project of the Casa de l'Aigua had also planned to bring water to the Eixample through the Alto de Moncada aqueduct? Or that the subway gallery through which the pipeline runs crosses Meridiana Avenue? The answers to these and many more questions will be given during the museum's guided tours on four Summer Saturdays: 3 and 7 July, and 4 and 18 September. There will be two sessions each of the days, one at 11 am and another one at 12.30 pm.

Visits are free of charge, but you must book your spot beforehand, which you can do through this link.

Publication date: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
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