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Casa Golferichs

Download date: 16/10/2025

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Casa Golferichs, which has been a civic centre since 1989, had been the villa of the family it is named after, from 1901 until the Spanish Civil War.

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El xalet: modernisme reinvented

Macari Golferichs, a civil engineer who made a fortune importing exotic woods from America, commissioned the architect Joan Rubió to build his family residence. El xalet, which dates from 1901, incorporates innovative construction techniques with typically Modernista materials.

From chalet to libertarian university

Anarchists took over the Golferichs family home in 1936 and set up a popular university there, a sign of things to come: today’s Golferichs’ chalet is one of the most active civic centres in the Eixample district, with a very full programme of courses, workshops, talks and exhibitions – pure culture. When the war was over, the house passed into the hands of a religious order that set up a school there until it was bought, at the end of the 1960s, by a construction that planned to knock it down and build a block of flats. However, the reaction of the residents was so strong, even going as far as occupying the place, that the City Council reclaimed ownership of the building, refurbished it and set up a civic centre in 1989: a little paradise at the heart of the Esquerra de l’Eixample neighbourhood.

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Location and contact

Location and contact

Casa Golferichs

Address:
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 491
Districte:
Eixample
Neighborhood:
la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample
City:
Barcelona
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Period Dies Hores
Del 22 September al 22 June De dilluns a divendres de 10.00 h a 20.00 h
Dissabte de 10.00 h a 14.00 h

Estiu 2025

Del 28 juny al 31 juliol

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De l'1 August al 31 August Tots els dies tancat

Tancat
De l'1 September al 21 September De dilluns a divendres de 10.00 h a 20.00 h

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