Palau Savassona

Palau Savassona—also known as Palacio Savassona or Casa Parellada—begins as an 18th-century townhouse project tied to Barcelona’s landed aristocracy and later to civic culture. In 1776, Antonio Ferrer-Llupiá y de Brossa, barón de Savassona, bought estates between Canuda and Bot near the now-gone convent of Santa Teresa, and in 1782 he requested permission to demolish earlier buildings and start a new family residence. The work continued after his death in 1787, with a new façade completed in 1796. Around the same period, the painter Francisco Pla, known as “El Vigatà,” decorated the ceilings and walls of the noble floor, and the residence was finished shortly before the 1802 visit of Spain’s King Carlos IV and Maria Luisa de Borbón-Parma to Barcelona. After the barón’s death in 1826, the estate changed hands in 1846 for 45,000 Catalan pounds, and in 1864 its owners commissioned Elías Rogent to reform and expand it. …

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