Barcelona maçònica

Publication language: Catalan
Year: 2014
Pages: 144
Cover: Paperback
Format: 20 x 24 cm
ISBN City Council: 978-84-9850-600-6
Co-publishing ISBN: 978-84-8330-814-1

Author/s: Xavi Casinos
Co-edition with: Viena edicions

Imatge pàgines interiors del llibre 'Barcelona maçònica'

This is the work of reference about the so-called secret society and its presence in Barcelona. The book follows a historical view from the construction of the Cathedral by the freemason masters to the working lodges nowadays, getting to know some illustrious freemasons from our country such as President Companys, Mayor Aiguader, the famous harpist Clotilde Cerdà — the daughter of the town planner —, General Prim or the philanthropist Rossend Arús, founder of the extraordinary library that escaped Francoist confiscation order miraculously.

Society

History

Culture

Xavi Casinos

Journalist and writer whose career has been strongly linked to Barcelona for more than forty years. In the 1990s he directed the section “Gran Barcelona” in El Periódico de Catalunya, he is currently a columnist for La Vanguardia and has been the author of the Sunday section “Barcelona secreta” with the same newspaper since 2014. He has also collaborated with other media, bringing his vision of the Catalan capital and metropolitan future. He has published seventeen books, including five volumes with articles from the series Barcelona secreta and the novel Tren de venganza (Roca Editorial, 2010), set during the construction of the first railway between Barcelona and Mataró, in the middle of the 19th century.