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Boixera mill and bridge

The Boixera mill was built in the early 18th century and appears in documentary records for the first time on 5 February 1753, when Segimon Borrull, a wool merchant from Igualada, leased it to Llorenç Guarro. Until the late 19th century, it manufactured kraft paper and white paper, the production of which stopped in the early 20th century. From 1926 to 1950 it was a flour mill, and was finally used as a sawmill until 1976. Today the mill remains abandoned.

The Boixera bridge, located adjacent to the mill of the same name, represents a great feat of engineering, with a length of 100 m and a width of 8 meters. At the base of its design are four large semicircular arch eyes. Construction of the Boixera bridge took place between 1880 and 1883.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the bridge was saved minutes before being blown up, the fate of other nearby bridges such as the Rigat bridge.
 

Pictures


La Boixera spring


La Boixera bridge

Pictures: Jordina Sales Carbonell / OPC Barcelona Provincial Council / La Pobla de Claramunt City Council

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