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Birthplace of Prat de la Riba (Can Padrós)

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Birthplace of Prat de la Riba (Can Padrós)

Monument · Castellterçol, Moianès, Barcelona

Can Padrós, in Castellterçol, is the birthplace of Enric Prat de la Riba i Sarrà, first president of the Commonwealth of Catalonia, who was born there on 29 November 1870. He was the fifth of seven siblings in a family of rural landowners, and the family home, a manor house in Castellterçol, was also where Prat de la Riba spent much of his life and where he died on 1 August 1917.

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