“La Modelo belongs to the neighbours, to tradition and to reminiscence”. With this headline, the Barcelona City Council has opened a thread on Twitter to supply the information that the previous jail has already registered.
Since its opening to the general public on January 21, 2018, greater than 261,000 folks have been on this area, which has turn into a venue for a number of actions.
It has hosted 2,500 in complete in these 5 years, together with exhibitions, talks, conferences, assignments to occasions, free and guided excursions. In addition to greater than 240 shoots.
Among them, the one from the movie ‘Model 77’ stands out, which is exactly based mostly on the occasions which might be a part of the historical past of the identical jail.
🙌 The Model is from the neighborhood, tradition and reminiscence!
📢 Five years after opening within the #Eixample district, the area is consolidated as some extent of civic and social gathering with greater than 261,000 guests and a couple of,500 actions. pic.twitter.com/SQaTuiBNBt
– BCN City Hall (@bcn_ajuntament) January 6, 2023
Along the identical traces, La Modelo has organized completely different actions associated to its reminiscence and its transformation in order that it will possibly now be visited by residents.
The free visits have attracted a complete of 147,500 individuals who have been in a position to see the inside of the enclosure, and the guided ones already exceed 20,200 guests (between most of the people and academic facilities).
Permanent exhibition on its future
Among different actions already held at La Modelo, the occasions of the Republican Spring program, the Simfònic Festival and the Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival stand out.
In addition to e-book displays, to offer it common use, it additionally lends its areas to all types of neighborhood organizations.
Since December 2022, a brand new everlasting exhibition has been put in within the entrance courtyard that explains the method of change that the complete property will expertise within the close to future.
It could be visited from Monday to Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. to eight:00 p.m., and Sundays solely till 2:00 p.m. For the second, what has been reworked have already been the courtyards of the Xirinacs and Entença faculties.