On sale the combined visit to Casa Masó and the Teixidor Mill, two of Masó's iconic buildings in Girona

Thursday, September 5, 2024

Tickets are on sale exclusively through this website

The Rafael Masó Foundation and GironaHub are putting on sale from today a combined ticket that will allow you to visit the Casa Masó and the Teixidor Mill on the same day, two of the most emblematic civil buildings in Girona, both the work of the noucentista architect Rafael Masó (1880-1935). As is usual when visiting Casa Masó, the visit to Farinera Teixidor can only be done with a guided tour of the Masó building, which will allow you to get to know the interior of the old flour mill and residence of the Teixidor family.

Initially, during a trial period, the combined visits will only take place on Saturdays, starting tomorrow, Saturday 7 September, and depending on the demand, it will be offered on other days of the week. First you will visit the Masó House (11.30 a.m.) and then the Teixidor Mill (1 p.m.), with the time necessary to move from one building to the other between the two visits. At this moment, the combined visit is offered only in Catalan, but later, according to demand, it is planned to be offered in other languages, as is already done in the visits to Casa Masó. The combined visit (€10 each house / €5 reduced) is for a maximum of 10 people every Saturday and tickets are sold exclusively from the website of the Rafael Masó Foundation (go to Tickets > Book a visit).

The Teixidor Mill, which is currently the headquarters of GironaHub, was built by Masó between 1910 and 1911 for the industrialist Alfons Teixidor, although the architect continued to work there to expand it between 1915 and 1916 and again between 1923 and 1924. Since then it has been one of the iconic buildings of modern Girona and the most representative of the evolution of Masó’s architecture from Art Nouveau to the Noucentisme. In the building, Masó's use of glazed ceramics and leaded glass, as well as iron, stands out. In all these materials Masó represented an ear of wheat, a symbol of the flour that was produced there. Since 2022 it has been the headquarters of the co-working space GironaHub, and before that, from 2000 to 2015, it had been the headquarters of the newspaper El Punt Avui, after being remodeled by the architect Arcadi Pla i Masmiquel.

Shortly after designing the first part of the Teixidor Mill, at the end of 1910 Masó began remodeling the family home, the Casa Masó on Carrer Ballesteries, a project on which he also worked at different times, first until 1912 and later between 1918 and 1920. Declared a Cultural Property of National Interest in 2023, Casa Masó is one of the best-preserved examples of Catalan noucentista architecture. In 2006 it was donated to the City of Girona and since 2007 it has been the headquarters of the Rafael Masó Foundation, which opened it to the public as a house museum in 2012.