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Town Hall of les Franqueses

les Franqueses del Vallès, Vallès Oriental, Barcelona

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Town Hall of les Franqueses

Monument · les Franqueses del Vallès, Vallès Oriental, Barcelona

Modernista town hall of les Franqueses del Vallès, on the Ribes road, in the Corró d'Avall district. A 1912 work by the architect Albert Juan i Torner, declared bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection) in 2019. The building, parallelogram in plan with three independent wings and a basilica-like structure with single-storey annexed schools, has a main façade 124.30 metres long by 35.50 deep. Notable features include its bell tower, covered in coloured glazed tiles with geometric decoration and topped by an iron spire, as well as the helical brick columns of the interior courtyard. Its construction gave priority to materials and building methods typical of the comarca, designed to make future repairs easier.

Photo: Josep Salvany i Blanch (Public domain)

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