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La Casa Torrents (La Buresa)
Manresa
La Casa Torrents (Torrents House), also known as "La Buresa", is a great modernist building designed by the architect Ignasi Oms i Ponsa in 1908.
Its construction was commissioned by Leodegario Torrents, a member of the Torrents family of industrial entrepreneurs — true pioneers of the industrialization of Manresa and its surrounding area. His wife, Antonia Burés, also came from a lineage of industrialists from the city, the Burés family, who owned factories and industrial colonies along the Llobregat and Ter rivers. The popular name of the building derives precisely from that surname: La Buresa.
The building, conceived aesthetically as a great Gothic palace, follows the typical structural layout of bourgeois houses from the early 20th century. Of its four floors, the first is the most spacious and richly decorated, serving as the residence of the owners. It features a central entrance with a vestibule that splits into two twin staircases. Its façades are regular and symmetrical in composition, alternating balconies and windows. The building is crowned by two lateral towers, one of which is topped with a conical dome covered in ceramic scales. Today, the entire building is divided into private apartments. Some rooms still preserve the original Modernist style decoration.
Modernist and Industrial Heritage
