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From this September onwards, we restart the guided tours to the factory of Anís del Mono every third Sunday of the month at different schedules.

Tickets for this activity, as well as for other scheduled visits, can be purchased directly on our website. In the following link you will find the information on the programmed groups, the price and the availability of places:

Guided tours

We remind you that the entrance to the factory is personal and requires the details of each of the attendees (name, surname and ID number) that must be entered at the time of purchasing the ticket.

The price of the visit is € 6 per person.

Children under the age of 7 have free admission, but it is essential that, if accompanied by minors, you let us know at the following email: info@museudebadalona.cat

Due the demand for this visit, there is a limit of four tickets for every purchase.

The performance of this activity is subject to possible changes arising from the health alert of COVID-19.

 

On a day like today in 1978, Pere Rovira died at the age of 57. A heart attack ended the career of this internationally renowned Badalona seamstress, who left behind a large collection of designs as a testament to his undisputed talent.

An important example of the originality and modernity of his proposals can be seen in the Museum of Badalona, in the exhibition Pedro Rovira, 1921-1978, which commemorates the centenary of the birth of this fashion artist.

The exhibition, curated by Josep Casamartina i Parassols and Ismael Núñez Muñoz, can be seen until Sunday 17th October and is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 5pm to 8pm and on Sundays from 10am to 2pm. Admission is free.

The Museum has also published a complete monograph with the same title, written by Casamartina himself, which traces both his biography and the value of his contribution to the world of fashion. You can buy it both in the Museum store and online.

 

This fragment of a ceramic relief, molded by pressure, represents the apostle Saint James, dressed as a pilgrim, and was recovered during the excavations on the site of L’Estrella, in the neighborhood of Coll i Pujol in Badalona, in 2019.

The figure of this saint was much revered throughout Europe, since the twelfth century, when the pilgrimage route was consolidated, which, from all parts of the continent, led to the city of Santiago de Compostela where is, according to legend, the tomb of the apostle St. James.

The figure, which dates from the 17th century, wears some of the attributes of this apostle, which allows its identification. This would be the case with the wide-brimmed hat with the pilgrim’s scallop, the cape with scallops and the traveling cloak he wore underneath. The elements that are missing to complete the pilgrim habit, such as the pumpkin, the crosier and the pouch, were probably part of the fragment of the figure that has not been preserved.

One of the pilgrimage routes chosen by European pilgrims, especially those from Italy, to reach Santiago, followed the route of the ancient Roman Via Augusta that passed, precisely, near the point of our city where the finding.

 

These two spaces, located on Pujol Street, will allow to discover how the water supply worked in the Roman and modern city, and get to know the oldest pottery of Baetulo (1st century BC), the only one located inside the city.

With this intervention, the visit to the Roman water conduit, which until now was limited by architectural barriers, can be done accordint to all the accessibility criteria

The Museum of Badalona, the City Council and the Archeology Service of the Generalitat de Catalunya are monitoring the excavation and construction of a new building run by the company Esepe & Co at number 20 on Pujol street, on the site traditionally known as l’Hort d’en Fluvià.

Aware of the great archaeological interest of the land and its valuable contribution to the knowledge of the Roman Baetulo, the Museum has been working with the property and the construction company to ensure the heritage elements that are preserved in this space. Thus, it has promoted the signing of an agreement between the City Council and the property, for the session of two spaces located inside the new building. The first space will have a local ground floor of 275 m² where you can visit the pottery excavated in 2006, the oldest known in Baetulo and the only one located in the urban area of ​​the city. The second space, of 350 m², will allow, through a single access, the visit to the aqueduct of the 18th century and the water conduit of the 1st century AD. In this way, the city will gain two new archeological spaces that will be open to the public in the future.

 

 

Works to open the subway that will allow the visit to the water conduit on Pujol street. Photo: MB

 

View of the modern aqueduct where five of the arches that make up this section can be seen. Photo: MB

Aerial view of the 2006 excavation showing the street culvert in the center. Photo: F. Antequera. Codex SL

 

Square-shaped kiln of artisanal pottery discovered in 2006 in the Hort d’en Fluvià. Photo: F. Antequera. Codex SL

 

The exhibition Games and toys in Antiquity, conceived by the Museu de Badalona and produced by the Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, through the Arqueoxarxa, can be seen in the temporary exhibition hall of the sanctuary of the Miracle, in Riner (Solsonès), from 18th July.

In this way, this traveling exhibition, inaugurated on November 29th, 2015 and which has already been visited by thousands of people throughout Catalonia, will open a new exhibition space that will complement the visit to the sanctuary itself, where there’s one of the most important altarpiece from the baroque period of Catalonia.

The original content of the exhibition, which brings together 130 archaeological pieces from different museums of the Arqueoxarxa, has been completed with a new exhibition produced by the Association of Lacetans Studies and a group of volunteers from the village that extends the original discourse to well into the twentieth century.

The two proposals, therefore, complement each other and show the continuity of many of the ancient games and toys and their evolution, showing that the need to play is intrinsic to the evolution of human beings.

The first exhibition was curated by Esther Gurri, archaeologist and curator of the Museum of Badalona, ​​and Joan Mayné, former director of this museum, while the contemporary exhibition was curated by Màrius Codina, a very close person at the Association of Lacetans Studies and game collector. The toys included in this second exhibition proposal have been donated by the curator himself and by several residents of Solsona and Riner, and in most cases are personal memories of his childhood.

The opening ceremony will take place this Sunday, July 18th, at 11 am and will be attended by Margarida Abras, Director of the Museum of Badalona, ​​and Esther Gurri, co-curator of the first exhibition, who will act as representatives of the Archeoxarxa.

 

Opening: 18th July, 11 am

Place: Casa Gran del santuari del Miracle (Riner)

Guided tours and further information:

683 659 050 / larutadelbarroc@gmail.com / www.riner.ddl.net