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A persistent problem was the higher cost of raw materials and machinery. From 1830 to 1844 the cost of raw cotton was on average 47% higher in Barcelona than New York and 28% higher than Liverpool. Coal prices in Barcelona were 76% higher than in Britain during this period, largely due to shipping costs (from Britain) and tariffs.
Bartomeu Terradas i Mont, born in Figueres in 1846 and died in Barcelona on December 17, 1901, was a recognized textile industrialist married to sabadellense Àngela Brutau, daughter of Bonaventura Brutau Estop, one of the first Catalan textile entrepreneurs, with whom he had four children: Rosa, Bartomeu, Josefa and Àngela.
The house was bought by Josep Batlló in 1903. The design of the house made the home undesirable to buyers but the Batlló family decided to buy the place due to its centralized location. It is located in the middle of Passeig de Gràcia, which in the early 20th century was known as a very prestigious and fashionable area. It was an area where ...
Remains of the Tellers Bastion in 1855 showing the buildings of the former Bonaplata Factory to the right. The Bonaplata Factory (1832-1838) (also known as El Vapor lit. ' The Steam Engine ') was the first factory in Spain to successfully use steam engines (using them to drive mechanical textile machinery), the first foundry to manufacture and repair cast-iron machinery for sale to the textile ...
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 . Exponent of the significant elements of decorativism that characterized the modernist movement was declared in 2000 a Cultural Interest ...
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