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Free Tour Mysterious industrial fabric and farmhouses and cooperatives of the old Vila de Sants

Duration: 2h and 30min
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Guru: Elisabet
Registered on April 27, 2021

Hello, my name is Elisabet and I have been dedicated to oral narration for 13 years and as a guide a little less. I love to tell stories and walk through the streets of the city, while I explain stories, legends, customs and the culture of my beloved Barcelona.

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    Free payment tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free

Tour description

Do you want to discover the secrets and mysteries that are hidden in the few farmhouses that exist in Sants?

The fame of the beautiful witches of La Bordeta? and how to identify them?

The curse of those buried in life in the cemetery of the church Sta. Ma. De Sants.

And why was the Covered Cross placed in the "Coll dels Enforcats"?

In order to discover it, we will take a tour of the disappeared farmhouses, factories and cooperatives, and those that are still standing, disguised with other services.

We will explain stories and anecdotes from the 19th-20th centuries , when in Sants, Hostafrancs and La Bordeta, there were 50 factories with 14,000 workers.

We will also contemplate its agricultural past .

Como Fructuós Gelabert , filmed the first images and the first short film , made in Spain.

We will go to the old Magória train station and imagine the racecourse that was built in Can Tunis in the 19th century, and how, it was reached with a tram that has already disappeared.

We will finish this interesting tour on the Rambla de Badal.

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  • Meeting point:
    Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 247,...
    Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 247, 08014 Barcelona, Spain
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    I will carry a Catalan banner at the old Magória station, today a civic center, Gran Vía Corts Catalanes, 247, on the corner of Calle Moianés.

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Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).

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