Window on El Vendrell gives you the opportunity to get to know El Vendrell, Sant Salvador, Coma-ruga and Sant Vicenç de Calders at first hand. There are ten windows, mobile phone in hand, through which to discover and explore a whole town: its streets, its museums and its past, as well as its present.

Would you like to look through some of these windows?

1.
The Portal del Pardo

Carrer de les Quatre Fonts on the corner with Carrer de la Muralla

2.
The Plaça Germans Ramon i Vidales

Carrer del Mar, 4

3.
El Vendrell parish church

Plaça Vella

4.
The Plaça Nova and the Museu Deu

Plaça Nova

5.
The houses of Pau Casals and Àngel Guimerà

Carrer Santa Anna

6.
Sant Salvador

Sant Salvador

7.
The Museu Pau Casals

Passeig Marítim Joan Reventós

8.
Coma-ruga

Coma-ruga

9.
Sant Vicenç de Calders

The Carrer del Pou Mirador, or vantage point

10.
The Via Augusta

The beginning of the El Vendrell stretch of the Via Augusta

Locations

View of the França neighbourhood. A.T.V. (ED) / Col·lecció L’ABANS - Fons Salvador Euras Ribas

Sant Vicenç de Calders, c/ Basses. Unknown author / Àngel Guimerà’s Museum

The pond of Coma-ruga (1926). Isidre Güixens Vidal / Fons Fotografia Güixens

Excursion to the house of Pau Casals. Unknown author / Col·lecció L’ABANS - Fons Club d’Esports Vendrell

The beach of Sant Salvador. Isidre Güixens Vidal / Fons Fotografia Güixens

The parish choir and the children's choir in front of the Pau Casals birth house. Unknown author / Col·lecció L’ABANS - Fons Jaume Pell Soldevila

La plaça Nova (1907). A.T.V. (ED) / Col·lecció L’ABANS - Fons Ferran Quesada Solé

Church interior before 1929. Isidre Güixens Vidal / Fons Fotografia Güixens

Birth house of the Ramon i Vidales brothers. Unknown author / Col·lecció L’ABANS - Fons Maria Ramon Caballé

Portal del Pardo and Carrer de les Quatre Fonts. Unknown author / Àngel Guimerà’s Museum

A little foretaste

At first the Portal del Pardo provided access from the Carrer Major to the track leading to Sant Vicenç de Calders, but from the 16th century it also led to the Raval de França district that was created in this area. In order to link this district, and cross the stream, the Riera de la Bisbal, the França bridge was built in 1888. This was the first bridge to cross the stream and you can see it behind you at the end of the street.

1. El Portal del Pardo

Location: Carrer de les Quatre Fonts on the corner with Carrer de la Muralla.

The drinking trough of Carrer de les Quatre Fonts. A.T.V. (ED) / Ferran Quesada Solé

Portal del Pardo and Carrer de les Quatre Fonts. Unknown author / Àngel Guimerà’s Museum

Acknowledgements

A project by: Museums of El Vendrell, El Vendrell Town Council
With the collaboration of: Agència Catalana del Patrimoni Cultural. Generalitat de Catalunya

Contents: Museums of El Vendrell
Script: Àlex Rebollo
Design and Web development: Estudi Jordi Caralt
Sound recording: Onasound

Translations: Gary Huxley