Monthly guided tour of the Mina Canta - Mina de Negrín

On the third Saturday of each month, a visit to the Mina Canta de La Vajol space will be scheduled for individuals.

• Next visit: Saturday, April 20, 2024.
• Visiting hours: from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Visit price: €5/person
• Registration: info@museuexili.cat and 972 55 65 33.
• Meeting place: municipal parking lot at the Vajol entrance, at 11am.

Recently, the enhancement of the Canta de la Vajol Mine building has been carried out in relation to its prominence during the Spanish War in relation to the evacuation of the economic and artistic heritage of the Republic. Its opening to the public has been one more, but definitive, step in its dignity as a memory space, a process that began decades ago.

In 1937 the Canta de la Vajol mine was seized and a fortified building was built as a shelter and storage facility, initially with funds from the Ministry of Finance, the Reparations Fund, and later also from the Central Board of Artistic Treasure, which It used warehouses in Figueres, Perelada and La Vajol. For months, a group of workers from Cartagena carried out the conditioning and construction works at the Canta mine under the direction of the architect and lieutenant of the Popular Army of the Republic Juan Negrín Mijailov, son of the president of the Government, Juan Negrín López. The main function of the bunkered building was to provide access to temporarily store these economic goods, gold and jewelry, and artistic goods, through forklifts, in the vault that was set up inside the mine.

Organized by: MUME.

Collaboration: La Vajol City Council.

With the support of: Diputació de Girona.

Do not miss it!