Itineraries of historical memory are back this month!

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

With the “Route of the prisoners of the Torras-Hostench factory” on Saturday, April 26th, at 11 a.m.

The cycle “The silenced voices of the victims of repression” is back with an urban route about the francoist repression towards the labour movement during the dictatorship. If you want to know more about the recent history of Girona, from its very protagonists, you have a date with the “Route of the prisoners of the Torras-Hostench factory” on Saturday, April 26th, at 11 a.m.

The route will center on the six victims from Girona who, on January 14, 1974, were arrested by the Franco regime for having formed a workers' committee at the Torras-Hostench factory in Sarrià de Ter. The Police starting the search because the direction of the factory had reported leaflets thrown outside referring to a workers’ boycott to working extra hours.

The four-shift system, the considerable size of the factory and the paternalist tradition in certain segments of qualified workers and managers made union work very difficult. These workers were accused by the Public Order Court of Madrid of illicit association and illegal propaganda and were arrested and taken to the dungeons of the police station of the former Civil Government, and later imprisoned for between one week and fifteen months in the Pont Major prison.

This itinerary aims to recover the memory of these events and pay tribute to the people arrested 51 years ago.

The meeting point will be at the Museum. We will do a route on foot to the locations where these events took place and we will do so with one of the protagonists who will tell us about the experience of fifteen months of captivity in the Girona prison.

The capacity is limited, it is necessary to book in advance at the website.