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In The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia we can see the flooded fields next to Colonia Rusiñol de Manlleu after yesterday’s rains.
Colonia Rusiñol, also known as Colonia Remisa (in some sources written Can Ramissa), is an old textile colony included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
Its origin dates back to 1866, when the Remisa industrialists settled in this place in Osona. But, its name comes from the fact that, later, the factory and the buildings in the neighborhood were acquired by Jaume Rusiñol, grandfather of the painter, writer and playwright Santiago Rusiñol.
The family turned the complex into the Cotton Yarn and Weaving Factory and established their residence in Manlleu until 1930. Rusiñol had already participated in the construction of the Can Puntí factory, also in Manlleu.
The new industrial colony became known as Can Remisa and had houses, a chapel, a commissary or a small school. In addition, throughout the 1880s, it was when the Rusiñol family built Cau Faluga, considered a jewel of industrial modernism.
The walled complex, between the river and the cultivated fields, is presided over by the chimney of more than 40 meters high and the imposing house of the masters, a building with features of romantic and modernist architecture. After the rains, they are reflected in the flooded fields.
