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In the last month, a serie of buildings on the street of la Creu have been demolished. Three contiguous buildings, two of which were occupied or owned by the Company Aigües de Barcelona.

The building with no. 75 was one-story, ground-floor and two-story. Although the ground floor was occupied by a business premise, at the time of its construction it should not have been like this. The access door to the building was made of iron and glass and, at the top, there was a window – also made of iron and glass – which gave light to the staircase and allowed, if necessary, good ventilation.

In this staircase window, the original grille from the time of construction of the building was preserved. An iron bar grate with an egg shape in the central part, inside which was the date of construction: 1848.

The good disposition of the company in charge of the demolition of the buildings, ISCA Demolitions, has allowed the Museum to recover this object that will be incorporated into the Museum’s collections. A very exceptional example of one of the first apartment buildings to be built in Badalona.

Iron bar grate of 1848 recovered in La Creu street of Badalona.

AAOn the right side of the image you can see the house that had the grate. ATV/Museu de Badalona. Arxiu Cuyàs

Recent image from Google maps showing the grate of the house that has been demolished.

Next Saturday, April 24th at 12 noon, as part of the Magna Celebratio, the Roman festival of Badalona, the opening of the House of the Ivy the new museum space in the Roman city of Baetulo, will take place,.

From its opening, the House will be open on Saturday 24th April until 8 pm and on Sunday you can also visit from 10 am to 2 pm.

Beyond the festival, the House of the Ivy will open for free on Sunday 2nd May, from 10 am to 2 pm, on Saturday 8th May, from 10 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm, and on Sunday 9th May, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Access to the house will be made gradually, depending on the occupation of the space. No reservations are made and capacity is limited.

The beginnings of the Bufalà district of Badalona can be traced back to the 1920s, when, in the face of increasing population and demand for housing, three landowners with land in this area of the city promoted three urbanisations (Bachs, Bufalà and Pujol), to which, years later, was added another urbanisation promoted by the Soler Biosca.

The area was named Bufalà in association with the farmhouse called Can Bufalà (or Can Seriol), located in the current Bailèn street. The farmhouse was replaced by a public housing development in the late 1950s – the red flats – and later the Obra Sindical del Hogar promoted there the El Bruch housing estate.

The canalization of the Avenue of Martí Pujol (the Canyet stream), the construction of the bridge over the Torrent de la Font (which connects Morera and Bufalà), the entry into operation of the B-20 highway, the development of the PERI of Montigalà and the Can Pontons Special Plan have been the elements of urban planning and public works that, since the last years of the twentieth century, have ordered the growth of this neighborhood of about fifteen thousand inhabitants.

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The Easter holidays are a great opportunity to discover the Roman city of Baetulo and the exhibition Badalona on wheels!

We remind you that the Museum is open from Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., and on weekends from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., except Friday, April 2nd, and on Easter Monday.

As for the Historical Archive, will be closed on Easter.

For further information, you can call: 933 841 750.

Last October, Antoni Gual Lloret donated to the Museum a set of artistic works from the collection of his father, the writer Josep Gual Lloberes (Badalona 1920-2005), the majority dedicated by the authors.

Among these works is the assembly Landscape of the Ebro, made from the poem by Josep Gual that was part of his first published work, Salt in the neck, in 1964.

This artistic ensemble, by an unknown author and framed as if it was a painting, has, in the lower right part, a plaque engraved with the poem, on the left a field plate that, as a meal, has remains of bullet magazines or rusty grenades and , in the upper right, the rusted remnant of a soldier’s shoe. These elements were collected by Josep Gual himself in the area of ​​the Battle of the Ebro.

The poem was set to music by Teresa Rebull 1969 and the piece was considered by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán as “one of the most exciting and simple songs of the civil war.”

A work, therefore, very significant that becomes part of the movable assets of the city.