Cal Jorba, building in Barcelona Province, Spain
Cal Jorba is a building in Manresa with Art Deco style located at the corner where Sant Domènec square, Nou street, and the Carme city wall meet. It features a tall central tower topped with a clock, two eagles as decorative elements, geometric patterns across the facade, and stylized plant motifs on each side.
The building was designed in 1936 by Barcelona architect Arnald Calvet Peyronill and completed in three phases through 1952 after the Jorba family relocated their business from other Manresa streets to this square. During the Spanish Civil War, the owner Joan Jorba was detained and died in 1938, but his son Pere continued the construction project and finished it after the war ended.
Cal Jorba was the store of a family that shaped Manresa's commercial life. The Jorbas were merchants and industrialists who promoted their goods through magazines and creative advertising that reached homes across Spain and Latin America.
The building is located at a busy corner on Sant Domènec square and is easy to access and view from the outside. Visit during daytime when sunlight highlights the geometric details and facade decorations, allowing you to examine the architecture from multiple angles.
The building was designed by Arnald Calvet Peyronill, who previously worked for the Jorba family in Barcelona but chose an unexpected style here, departing from his usual modernist approach. This Art Deco solution with straight lines and geometric forms was a marked shift from Calvet's other works and shows how architectural taste changed during this period.
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