The Modernist Cellar
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The warehouse constructed in 1914 under the auspices of the Mancomunidad de Catalunya is work of illustrious architect Pere Domènech i Roura, fruit of the shared in common effort of the local peasantry to raise a rational building, of great architectonic value, pioneering as far as the incorporation to the agrarian industry of technical specifications, constructive and enological.
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Named by Angel Guimerà as one of the "Cathedrals of Wine", due to its magnificence and to its distribution in plant, with a higher center body and lower wings in the style of the old Roman basilicas, with the pressure water tank as a bell tower, separated by rows of columns that confers a pleasant sensation of amplitude and luminosity.
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