Colònia Busquets

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The memory of what was once Colònia Busquets lives on in the houses that make up the residential area of the Sant Gervasi neighbourhood.

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Colònia Busquets’ homes hark back to the times of the first holidaymakers in Vallvidrera. Barcelona’s wealthy families saw this village as a paradise for spending their summers in touch with nature. In 1907, the decorator Joan Busquets bought the rural estates along the Carretera de l’Església, building the first housing development with Catalan Art Nouveau houses surrounded by gardens five years later. During the civil war, this neighbourhood became a refuge for people fleeing the bombardment of Barcelona. Summer residences became improvised refuge centres, with the Colònia Busquets taking in children evacuated from Barcelona.

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