CaixaForum Barcelona

This guide to CaixaForum Barcelona follows the textile mill Casimir Casaramona commissioned from architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch in 1911, a rival to Gaudi whose brick towers and crenellated skyline won the city's award for best industrial building. You'll hear how strikes and bankruptcy shut the factory within a decade, and how it spent two decades after 1940 as a Barcelona police cavalry barracks, hooves echoing under vaults built for looms. Picture that mismatch as you walk beneath the gothic brick towers today.