Masia Can Mestres

Masia Can Mestres is one of the city's few remaining old farmhouses bearing testimony to the enormous agricultural and stock-raising activity that took place in the Marina area. The rural population of the zone was spread over the whole plain of the Llobregat River delta as it supplied the city’s markets. Can Mestres, which was originally a single story building, received further floors in later renovations. The farmhouse is surrounded by the fields once cultivated by the owner of Can Mestres, Benvingut Mestres. In 1997, Can Mestres was turned into the first of a series of urban allotments created by the City Council. These small plots were then leased for certain periods of time to senior citizens and cultivated under organic-farming principles.