Ateneu Obrer de Sant Andreu de Palomar

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The Ateneu Obrer de Sant Andreu, a workers’ centre founded in 1885, housed a mixed, progressive secular school. Today it offers artistic and cultural activities to everyone.

Cultural heritage

The Ateneu Obrer, founded in 1885, had a private secular school. It was the school with the most students in Sant Andreu until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. It started to offer free evening classes so that workers and the children of working-class and peasant families could have access to education. It also opened to girls around 1895. The aim of the organisation was to provide quality education to the working classes and become a leader in educational reform. The Ateneu had an extensive library, housed several organisations and played host to many cultural and leisure activities. It was the most important organisation for the working classes until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

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