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The Macià House opens its doors one hundred years after the Prats de Molló Events
The old Vil·la Denise becomes a space for culture and memory to preserve the legacy of the insurrection attempt led by Francesc Macià in 1926.
Casa Macià opened its doors this Sunday in Prats de Molló, in Northern Catalonia, converted into a new space dedicated to culture and historical memory. The inauguration coincides with the centenary of the Prats de Molló Events, the insurrection attempt led by Francesc Macià in 1926 with the aim of overthrowing the Primo de Rivera dictatorship and proclaiming the Catalan Republic.
The building, formerly known as Vil·la Denise, was one of the central scenes in the preparation of the plot, as it hosted Macià and his general staff during the months prior to the operation. Now, a century after those events, the property regains its historical dimension and opens a new stage as a space for dissemination, research, and preservation of memory.
More than five hundred people attended the inaugural event, which featured the presence of former Parliament president Carme Forcadell, Junts secretary general Jordi Turull, Parliament president Josep Rull, and Culture Minister Sònia Hernández, as well as Carles Puigdemont and Jordi Pujol. The day also included a tribute to the families of the conspirators, in a commemoration that sought to establish a link between historical exile and present exile experiences.
The new exhibition space incorporates original documents and an audiovisual piece that reconstructs the events and political context of that operation. The project brings to the public one of the most significant pages of contemporary Catalan history, recovering the protagonists, circumstances, and consequences of an episode that had an important international impact.
The inauguration culminates nearly six years of work driven by a group of activists who organized to recover the property and restore its heritage and symbolic value. More than a hundred volunteers participated in the house's restoration, documentary research in archives in Perpignan, Foix, Brussels, Antwerp, Paris, Moscow, Ireland, and New York, as well as in the creation of audiovisual testimonies and the definition of the museographic project.
The president of the Casa Macià Foundation, Lluís Puig, described the inauguration as “an end and a beginning,” referring to the closing of a long recovery phase and the start of a new public journey for the building. Casa Macià thus arises with the intention of keeping alive the memory of the Prats de Molló Events and turning a historical setting into a space for reflection on culture, identity, freedom, and exile.
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