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Pons Colony

Puig-reig, Berguedà, Barcelona

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Pons Colony

Monument · Puig-reig, Berguedà, Barcelona

The Colònia Pons, or Cal Pons, is one of the seven textile colonies of Puig-reig, founded in 1875 by the industrialist José Pons y Enrich and declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional in 2017. In 1876 it obtained the use of the waters of the Llobregat and built the sluice, the canal and the factory, opened in 1880, together with the workers' housing, enclosed by a wall that controlled the entry and exit of the workers under curfew. It came to bring together up to 400 families and maintained an intense cultural life, with a school, a theatre and its own magazine, until it closed in 1995. Notable is the church of San José, from 1877, eclectic and neo-Gothic, with a tower, crypt and family pantheon, along with the historicist houses of the Torre Vella and the Torre Nueva, from the late 19th century.

Photo: Pere López Brosa (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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