The intention was partly to provide better conditions for the workers, partly to have a bigger and more modern factory and also to keep the workers further from and isolated from the many 'revolutionary' ideas that were circulating among factory workers in Barcelona.
However, growing social unrest and worker conflicts in Barcelona prompted Guell build a new factory and workers village that would be even further away from Barcelona. At the time Guell owned a textile mill in Barcelona in the village of Sants, which in those days was a village outside the Barcelona city centre. Colonia Guell has recreational areas, car and bus parking.Ĭolònia Güell was built in 1890 by Eusebi Güell, who was a prominent Catalan businessman and a patron of Antoni Gaudi who he commissioned for other famous Gaudi structures in Barcelona including Park Guell and Guell's town house Palau Guell.Ĭolonia Guell was conceived as a factory village. Choose from guided tours, audioguides, dramatised tours and more. Colonia Guell is home to a hidden treasure by Antoni Gaudí which is called the Gaudí Crypt.Īpart from the Gaudi crypt the Colonia Guell village is a lovely place to visit if you love modernist architecture. The Colonia Guell factory village is located 25 minutes drive from Barcelona in the municipality of Santa Coloma de Cervelló.
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