After being closed for three months due to COVID-19, Casa Navàs has set a date for the public opening of its installations. Specifically, it will be on Saturday, the 11th of July. The modernist gem by Lluís Domènech i Montaner will reopen, applying all the required health safety measures to carry out the visits with absolute security. In addition, the recently rebuilt gable will be inaugurated the day before the guided visits start.
The upcoming Saturday, 11th of July, Casa Navàs will reopen to the public. However, some changes will be introduced to adapt to the health measures required due to COVID-19. In particular, there will be timetable changes. Additionally, the number of visitors on guided tours will be reduced. Nevertheless, visits will continue to take place from Monday to Sunday. They will be available both in the morning and in the evening. Tours will be offered in Catalan, Spanish, English and French. Each visit will last 55 minutes. From now on, tours will no longer start on the hour. Instead, they will begin every half hour. The first visit will be at 10am and the last one at 8pm. Additionally, the house will be closed from 2pm to 4pm.
Before entering Casa Navàs, visitors’ temperatures will be taken, and they will also have to disinfect their hands with hydroalcoholic gel, wear masks, and protect their shoes with bootees. As usual at Casa Navàs, it is forbidden for visitors to touch anything during the tour. The groups will be made up of a maximum of 13 people in order to guarantee social distancing.
Entrance tickets with a discount
On the day of Sant Jordi (St. George’s Day), Casa Navàs started selling gift vouchers with reduced prices for the house entrance tickets, with an open-ended date and the merchandising related to it. The offer will remain in vigour through our website, www.casanavas.cat, until Sant Pere’s Day (St. Peter’s Day), Monday the 29th of June. From that date, the offer will no longer be operative and specifically organising the visit dates can begin.
Premium Visits
As we did last summer, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8pm we will offer you the chance to take the “Premium Visit”, a visit that lasts an hour and a half and includes vermouth and wine tasting on the terrace. White and red “Secrets de Casa Navàs” by the Clos Galena winery will be served. There will also be vermouth, specifically “Vermut Miró Reserva” and “Vermut Miró Blanc”. All this along with snacks, background music and the magic that spreads throughout the terrace built over a hundred years ago by the famous architect, Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
New dates for those who already purchased tickets
As a result of the sudden closure due to COVID-19, many visitors were unable to enjoy the beauty of the Mercadal. This happened even though they already had entrance tickets. Consequently, Casa Navàs contacted all of them to offer a refund or the option to change the visit to a future date. Fortunately, most of them chose the second option. Therefore, as of the 30th of June, the employees at Casa Navàs will contact these people again. In this way, they will be able to find the best date for them to take the visit.
Those who have the « Vermouth Visits” and the “Modernist Nights” visits will be informed about the steps to be taken in order to enjoy these activities. Casa Navàs’s aim is that those who want to discover the work of Domènech have the chance to do so as comfortably as possible. If you have any doubts related to entrance ticket replacement/exchange, please send an e-mail to [email protected].
Inauguration of the gable
The reopening of Casa Navàs to the public will coincide with the inauguration of the gable. The reconstruction works started last February and will be finished at the end of June. This will be on Friday the 10th of July when it will be unveiled to the citizens for the first time. Due to the COVID-19, we will not be able to hold the inauguration in the Mercadal Square as originally planned, so the event will take place online.
The week after the inauguration, the Casa Navàs shop will open. In this way, everyone will be able to see the documentary that explains the reconstruction works in detail. In addition, two talks will be organised. These talks will focus on crowning the façade and on the bombardments that destroyed it in 1938.
All the information related to the acts involving the gable reconstruction will be provided in the near future.
