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The arrival of the first sailors from to INDIANOS various points in ’s American colonies in ABOUT US the last third of the 18th century started an intense IN BLANES The Network of Indiano Municipalities was process of migration from this town. This process c/ Bonaventura created to research, identify and publicise the continued throughout the 19th century, focussing Carreras, 11 material and immaterial heritage of the Indianos in on Cuba and Puerto Rico where people from Blanes 17255 Begur () . With this aim, we oer a range of routes developed an important commercial network. After you can follow in all of the municipalities that years of privations and hard work, many returned 615 13 54 43 comprise this body. having achieved their goals. Some traces of their [email protected] philanthropy are preserved in the town, such as the www.municipisindians.cat former hospital building, the Colegio Blandense We also aim to develop a common project to make it school and the record of their donations to the possible to create instruments that foster Church of Santa Maria and the Chapels of knowledge of the history and culture shared by l'Esperança and el Vilar. Their architectural legacy is the municipalities and by the Americas. This project very significant, with buildings that were will also help contribute to the recuperation, constructed as main residences or summer houses, conservation and dissemination of the Indiano legacy and their economic legacy is also very important, in the municipalities that comprise the network. the most important example of which is the Caves Mont-Ferrant winery, as is their cultural legacy, The network comprises Catalan municipalities that most notably the writers Josep Cortils i Vieta, have an Indiano tradition and fulfil the following Agustí Vilaret and Joan Ribas i Carreras. minimum requirements: a historical justification, the presence of material elements and the organisational capacity of the municipalities. ITINÉRAIRE CULTUREL DU The network comprises the following municipalities: CONSEIL DE L'EUROPE A cooperation project in the field of the cultural, Arenys de Mar Sitges educational and tourist heritage of Europe, aimed Begur Torredembarra at developing and promoting one or more routes Blanes based on a historical route, a cultural concept, a -Sant Antoni Consorcio de PT figure or phenomenon of transnational importance Costa del Maresme and significance for understanding and respecting Distrito Sant Andreu - BCN shared European values. This can be a physical route or a network of heritage sites. A total of 33 cultural itineraries dedicated to various cultural Sant Pere de Ribes heritage topics (architecture, art, prehistory, historical figures, religious routes, traditional cultures, etc.) currently have this title from the Council of Europe. ROUTE OF THE INDIANOS IN BLANES

1. El Convent 5 5. Església de Santa Maria 8. Cementiri (Cemetery) 1 (The Monastery) (Church Of Santa Maria) In the cemetery’s main avenue, 8 The Massó family were the Aurora Massó Verdaguer, fulfilling the many family tombs of Americans administrators of the Verdaguer bequest of 150,000 pesetas by her father, from Blanes are preserved, most family’s estates in Puerto Rico and the Indiano Salvador Massó, in the neo-Gothic style. These amassed a considerable fortune. commissioned Antoni Gaudí to make two include ones belonging to lines Aurora Massó Verdaguer married thrones for the parish Church of Santa such as the Massó and Vieta the cultural activist Joaquim Casas Maria, which were destroyed during the families. Carbó. The couple bought the former Spanish Civil War. Her brother Claudi Capuchin monastery and in the 20s donated an artistic metal chandelier to they contracted the architect Isidre the church. Puig Boada to carry out a careful restoration of it. 7 9 6 7. Hospital de Sant Jaume Indianos from the town, including 9. Caves Mont-Ferrant 2. Carrer De l'Esperança Vicenç Coma i Ferrer and the (Mont-ferrant wine caves) merchant Miquel Ferrer i Torras, who Agustí Vilaret was the driving force behind Bonaventura Puig Torrent accumulated one of the most had settled in Cuba were involved in the Caves Mont-Ferrant winery, the first in notable fortunes of anyone from Blanes, thanks to the the construction and running of the the country to make cava. The Caves “Cafè de la Marina” which he established in Havana. In 1895 Hospital de Sant Jaume. The original Mont-Ferrant are no longer active in Blanes, he returned from Cuba on the J. Jover i Serra steamship, building, opened in 1913, comprises but the brand is still marketed. apparently with a Cuban wife and a daily income of five three wings with multiple doors and pesetas. He built one of the most luxurious houses on windows framed by large tiles. Carrer Esperança, which became one of the streets with the most Americans in the town. 2 6. Cal Ros 10 Property of a family of merchants established in Havana, Cal 10. Antic Colegio Blandense Ros is another example of the architecture promoted by the (former Colegio Blandense) 3 Indianos in Blanes. 3. Can Massó The Americans of Blanes were also involved in the foundation A of the Colegio Blandense school. Some of them were still living The Verdaguer-Massó family were A Girona AP-7 11 A lloret abroad, such as Josep Dotras, Josep Fàbregas, Tomàs Pou, landowners who built a fortune Manuel Boada and Joan Llinàs in Cuba, Josep Canonge in running a large sugar plantation in Av. de l’Estació Buenos Aires and Segimon Fàbregas in Montevideo. Joan Guayama (Puerto Rico). Much of this 8 C. Santa Cecília A Barcelona Furquet, who was resident in Blanes, was also involved. fortune was inherited by Obdúlia Verdaguer and her husband Fèlix C. Anselm Clavé Massó, with whom she had five A Malgrat 7 Av. Joan Carles I children. Their eldest daughter, Felisa, 6 C. Jaume Arcelós 10 married Santiago Garriga of Barcelona. C. Amadeu 11 9 Vives C. del Raval C. Ample 5 Pg. de Santa Bàrbara Rbla. Joaquim C. Unió Ruyra C. Roij i Jalpí 4 C. de 2 l’Esperança Pg. de Dintre 3 A Malgrat Pg. de la i 11. Extensió Santuari del Vilar 4. Can Bitlloch Marina 1 Pg. Mestrança (Extension to the Sanctuary of El Vilar) From Passeig de Dintre, head up Carrer Bellaire. At number 37 you will find the house Platja de Blanes An inscription on the columns that support the of the Bitlloch family. Joan Bitlloch i Isern emigrated from Blanes to Cuba. Like most Sa Palomera balustrade of the presbytery, which is now no of the Catalans who settled there, he worked hard as an assistant in a shop. When he 4 Club de Vela longer there, recorded this: “Ysla de Cuba año de returned to Blanes, he had this house built next to the house where the writer Josep Blanes 1877” (Island of Cuba 1877). Cortils i Vieta was born (Blanes, 1839–1898), who emigrated to Cuba at the age of 14.