Cooperativa L’Empar de l’Obrer

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Cooperativa L’Empar de l’Obrer

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Co-ops are a very characteristic feature of the Sants neighbourhood and L’Empar Obrer is one of the most emblematic.

Cultural heritage

Number 15, Carrer Premià houses one of the most famous cooperatives in Sants, the former Societat Cooperativa Col·lectiva L’Empar Obrer, which was founded in 1905. Its latest guise is as this majestic three-floor block. This eclectic style building has always played host to cooperative facilities, despite the fact that the cooperative it is named after, L’Empar Obrer, disappeared in 1939 after the end of the Spanish Civil War.

Today the space is shared by the Aposta cooperative learning centre, the Sàpiens Publicacions publishing house, the Coop 57 financial services cooperative, the L’Olivera agricultural social-integration cooperative and the Clade cooperative business group. The building also houses the headquarters of district’s Ona de Sants-Montjuïc radio station.

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