Can Carreras was in a very fertile area, thanks to the existence of a source of water from Collserola. It was known as Mas Sala in the past, receiving its current name in the 19TH century. Then it was owned by Lluís Guarro i Casas, a well-known paper manufacturer who sold part of the land to build the mental asylum in 1880.
Vegetables, vines and cereals
In 1914, the tenant farmers Josep Mompart and his wife Rita Estadella took over Can Carreras and diversified production. The land was no longer used for growing flowers and fruit trees but for planting vines, cereals, carob, greens and other vegetables, as well as for tending animals.
The end of an era
The farmland was bordered by today’s Passeig de Valldaura, Plaça de Karl Marx and, to the south, the Can Peguera stream. After the war much of the land was broken up and sold off, and the fields turned into dozens of houses, then known as the Can Carreras neighbourhood, which has now disappeared. Barcelona City Council took over the building in the 1990s, to include it in Parc Central in Nou Barris.
The work carried out included remodelling the area around the house and planting an olive tree at the door of the old manor, in memory of the former city councillor, Antoni Santiburcio, who was behind the Parc Central project. Today Can Carreras is pending plans to turn it into a new neighbourhood facility.
Cultural heritage
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Nou Barris
la Guineueta
- Address:
- Parc Central de Nou Barris, 0
- Districte:
- Nou Barris
- Neighborhood:
- la Guineueta
- City:
- Barcelona
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