Arquitectura balneària a Catalunya

Solà-Morales, Ignasi; Barbat, Andreu; Birulès, Josep M.; Fabré, Xavier.

ISBN 13: 9788450543308

Ed Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1986

The book of spa’s in Catalunya was born from the desire to inventory what we had left of an architectural type that, although it had made a fortune in Europe, it seemed that only the drains had arrived here. Indeed, Marta Povo’s inventory and excellent collection of photographs reveal what could have been and never was.

However, the ingenuity of the research led to the unveiling of those most profound values ​​that, despite the poor construction of much of our spas, remain in some way in the stylistic and typological references, in the design of the most specific details in the choice of places that beyond being the place where water gushes often become the sublimation of a landscape suspended in a magical mountain and, with it, of a past life, of a stadium that converges halfway between the welfare of a mass incipient relaxed bourgeoisie and the beneficial effects for the soul of all these establishments of a world of yesterday.