The Fira Modernista de Terrassa brings the city’s late 19th-century industrial and cultural heyday back to life in a historical re-enactment. Focused on the rise of the textile industry and modernista architecture, it revives the creative energy of an era that shaped the city’s identity. Over a weekend, traditional crafts, exhibitions and performances fill the streets with scenes that feel suspended in time. Stepping inside former factories, hearing stories and seeing how Modernisme still resonates today offers a way of discovering a city shaped by memory and beauty.
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The programme features a modernista market, demonstrations of traditional crafts, guided visits, concerts, parades, cookery demonstrations and a display of vintage cars and motorbikes moving through the historic centre.
A large part of the local community takes part, with hundreds of residents dressing in period clothing and bringing the city to life as a late 19th-century scene.