Traces of an agricultural past

This is a square building with gateways on each side, made up of a ground floor, first floor and attic. It also has gallery passageways and a chapel. It is currently in good condition and has conserved all its original 18th-century interior decoration. Agricultural tools and ornaments and antique furniture have all been conserved.

A farmhouse with history

Its origins date back to the 16th century, though it was destroyed in 1714 and subsequently rebuilt in the neo-classical style, with neo-Gothic features. The Ca l’Armera farm used to be located along the path that joined Horta to Sant Martí de Provençals. It is one of the last relics of country life that can still be found in Sant Andreu. Also known as Can Ros, having been purchased by Ros i de Puig, it remained an economic and social reference point until 1952. There is plausible reason to believe it had been built over the remains of a possible Roman villa, given that work opening up Carrer del Cardenal Tedeschini in 1955 led to the discovery of several silos full of ceramic material, which was identified as Iberian or Roman.

The Ros family sold sixteen and a half hectares of land to the Congrés Eucarístic Housing Trust, to be used to build workers’ housing on, on the condition that the farmhouse’s perimeter area would be respected. The new urbanisation of the area generated 2,729 homes and 258 commercial premises.