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Vidal Colony

Puig-reig, Berguedà, Barcelona

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Vidal Colony

Monument · Puig-reig, Berguedà, Barcelona

The Colònia Vidal, or Cal Vidal, is a former textile colony conceived as a self-sufficient settlement on the banks of the Llobregat, in Puig-reig (Berguedà), with housing for the workers, a church and a school, today home to the Museu de la Colònia Vidal. It was founded by Ignasi Vidal i Balet, who bought the land in 1882; the works, directed by the engineer Vicenç Vidal i Casacuberta, began in 1896 and continued until 1901, and the factory operated for 79 years, until it closed in 1980. Alongside the factory, the turbine and the canal, it brings together housing of different types, a church, a convent, a school and a cinema-theatre; around 1940 the church of the Puríssima Concepció, in neo-medievalist style, and the Torre de l'amo were built, a residence that underscored the owner's status before the workers.

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