Mataró

This is the city centre and you can find many shops, bars, restaurants and terraces.

The industrial building of the textile cooperative "La Obrera Mataronense" is the only witness to the project of 30 homes and a social building, with an assembly hall and a factory, which was commissioned to a recently graduated Antoni Gaudí, and which only partially executed (1883). The interest of this youthful work lies, more than in its architectural quality, in the significance of Gaudí's participation in a project of this kind, and that he occupied it between 1877 and 1882 with a series of preliminary sketches and studies on the operation of cooperatives.

The Coll i Regàs house is a modernist building designed by the Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch in 1898 and commissioned by the entrepreneur Joaquim Coll i Regas, a major textile manufacturer Mataro (Barcelona). Exponent of the significant elements of decorativism that characterized the modernist movement was declared in 2000 a Cultural Interest, in the category of historical monument. Today it is owned by the Fundació Iluro of Mataró.

born from the legacy of the artist Jordi Arenas i Clavell in his hometown and is the specific extension of the Museum of Mataró specializing in art, with special attention to the artistic activity of the city of Mataró (Maresme). Cultural activities such as exhibitions, workshops, conferences, talks and audiovisual screenings are held therey.

It is a construction of the fifteenth century, completely modified and of which only a Gothic window is preserved on the facade.

Can Serra is the section of Mataró Museum dedicated to the city’s history, with a permanent exhibition with two main themes: the Roman period, then the Middle Ages until the present day. It was built by Jeroni Serra Arnau, the first trustee of the town in Corts, it was built in 1565. The building, in Renaissance style, preserves the original structure with a wide entrance from which the stone staircase and the large central room on the first floor that maintains the original wooden roof.

it is devoted to the knitting and hosiery industry. It is situated in one of the three-storey warehouses of the former Marfà factory in Mataró, the most important Knitted fabric factory in Spain before 1936.

Open in 1863 as a prison, today is a contemporary art museum. It was built by the architect Elies Rogent in 1851.The structure of this building clearly follows the historicist criteria of the same architect, author of the neo-Romanesque building of the University of Barcelona (1863-70) and of the restoration of the Ripoll Monastery (1886-93). In the case of the Mataró Prison, Rogent follows the canons of medieval constructions of a civil nature, typical of the western Mediterranean, in the Late Middle Ages.The building ceased to function as a prison in 1967.