
Carretera de l'Església, 65-93
Sarrià - Sant Gervasi
08017
Barcelona
https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/museuhistoria/ca/muhba-villa-joana
Latitude: 2.0986647
Longitude: 41.4190316
- Museum
- Allotment and community garden

Old farmhouse parish Vallvidrera Villa Joanna transformed into a summer house in the nineteenth century and equipment for educational use between 1921 and 1973, Villa Juana schools, special education pioneers in Europe.
Villa Joana is the last house that hosted the writer Jacinto Verdaguer. Sick, he died on 10 June 1902. From that moment the house became a place of memory of the poet. In 1963 some rooms had become the first museum that was dedicated. Today is both memorial house of literature: a place that claims the value of the word through their literary figure. The writer becomes the axis that allows to present the reality of Barcelona as a literary phenomenon of universal literary experience.
Villa Joana MUHBA Vallvidrera district is within the natural park of Collserola. Formerly, he was one of the most prosperous farms in the area. In the nineteenth century was reformed to make it residential house and was at that time that it give the iconic clock that stands on its facade. Beside Villa Joana is the Information Centre of the Collserola Park is a good starting point to get to know the surroundings of the forest area as the source or Budellera Pantano Vallvidrera.
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