The Palomares restaurant will shut its doorways after greater than half a century of exercise. A goodbye by power for breach of the Coastal Law, which places an finish to the enclave situated on the seashore within the Catalan city of Vilassar de Mar (Barcelona). The cessation of its financial life supposes the earlier step to the demolition of the emblematic constructing of the Maresme, though the consistory tries to forestall it with the purpose of turning it right into a municipal facility.
The institution has spent a long time with the concession exhausted and based mostly on assets they’ve managed to quickly keep the enterprise. Years of litigation to resume the license with out consequence and with an inevitable farewell on May 14, in compliance with the ultimate ruling of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge.
“The coastal regulation doesn’t enable buildings inside the maritime public area. Up to 3 generations of individuals have handed by way of the restaurant. When they discover out that we’re going to shut they begin to cry. Others imagine that the state of affairs can nonetheless be reversed. Even They say that if vital they’ll maintain an illustration”, explains Ramon Huguet, cook dinner and tenant of the premises for greater than forty years.
The constructing is among the facilities of native life in the summertime season and an indicator of the Catalan municipality, because it maintains the standard bathhouses on the bottom flooring and is the headquarters of the Club Esportiu Palomares. “It is an virtually vital service in Vilassar as a result of there isn’t any restaurant on the seashore from Premià to Mataró,” provides Ramon, who needs to retire at 70, though he wish to have “a special ending.”
“I see individuals who met right here with their girlfriend. Now they’re grandparents and include their grandchildren. Many got here each week and since they know we’re closing additionally they come over to say goodbye,” recollects the cook dinner at a spot the place neighbors and receivers meet of Barcelona tourism.
Despite the cessation of exercise, the Vilassar City Council needs to keep away from demolition to transform the restaurant into school rooms for the University of the Sea and Overseas of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). On the bottom flooring of the loos, they intend to organize the area to apply water sports activities or keep the maritime traditions of the realm such because the almadraba, a way for catching tuna.
“Losing that is shedding a part of the identification. It is as in the event that they eliminated a city sq., which could be very crowded and is conceived as an area for coexistence and even childhood recollections. It is throwing away part of historical past and at no cost. It would not harm anybody. It has its personal identification,” says the mayor, Damià del Clot.
City Hall try to protect the constructing
The consistory presents this Wednesday, on the headquarters of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, the undertaking to protect the “most of the buildings that grasp by a thread on the coast”, together with the Palomares, which is a part of the 4 most important axes of the undertaking subsequent to the Museum of the Navy, Escola Nàutica and cubicles of l’Espigó de Garbí. All of them “basic” to protect historic reminiscence, promote tradition and preservation of the ocean, and facilitate the apply of nautical sports activities.
“They are drafting it at a compelled march, it was scheduled for the primary three items, however the urgency of the Palomares has meant that we have now to conclude it as effectively. We will clarify it whereas we put together it and course of it in order that it’s not demolished,” says Damià del Clot.
The first step to “cease the affect” is to transform the constructing right into a cultural asset of native curiosity, a measure that can attain the municipal plenary session on the finish of the month to have “a little bit of safety”, as they already did with the cubicles of l’Espigó Garbí, fishermen’s huts additionally threatened with demolition. Once they’ve it, they’ll ask the Generalitat to develop it to the nationwide stage to have a “larger” diploma of safety.
Precisely, the neighboring cities of Vilassar have precedents that ended with demolition. “In Premià they threw down the L’Ona restaurant, which was similar to Palomares, and on Cabrer seashore they demolished the Club Náutico from someday to the subsequent.”
For the tenant, the closure of the restaurant will imply an abysmal change of their each day. “I spend rather more time right here than at residence. I just like the job, now I spend just a few nights getting ready dinner after which I am going residence. When I haven’t got this I must discover ways to use the kitchen at residence,” concludes Ramon, who doesn’t lose hope regardless of the “problem” of the state of affairs of a restaurant that has skilled the transformation of Vilassar de Mar firsthand.