Houses and Streets

UB118
Carlists (3, Pintor Sorolla Street)

Spain in the 19th century was a succession of civil wars between the Carlists, supporters of the Ancien Regime (maintaining the absolute political power of the Crown and the privileges of the Church) and the Liberals, supporters of a more democratic regime and without so much weight on the part of the Church.

Algímia suffered a Carlist incursion on June 19, 1872. The population was warned and fled to the mountains, but Salvadora Serra Llovet was about to give birth. In a room of this house, she and two maids were locked up. The front room was full of carobs, in such a way that it seemed there was nothing else. And, while the Carlists were burning the Municipal Archive and stealing what they could, Bartolomé Bória Serra was born.