1843Josep Taberner and his son Salvador, from Guils de Cerdanya, open a textile store at number 15 Carrer Boqueria. |
1848Salvador Taberner moves the shop to number 23 on the same street, which at that time enjoyed bustling commercial activity. |
1854After repeated requests from the people of Barcelona, the government of Isabel II agrees to knock down the city walls. |
Store in Pla de la Boqueria. Detail from the painting by Achille Battistuzzi from 1873 exhibited at the MNAC (National Art Museum of Catalonia) in Barcelona. |
1859Salvador Taberner moves the store again to number 1 Carrer Boqueria, to larger premises cornering with Pla de la Boqueria, just a few metres from the Gran Teatro del Liceo opera house in Barcelona. This was the location of the old entrance, knocked down in 1777, where tradition places the martyrdom of Saint Eulalia in Roman times, thus the new store was known by the people of Barcelona as Almacenes Santa Eulalia. |
1894His son Domingo Taberner expands the establishment to the adjoining premises of numbers 3, 5, and 7 Carrer Boqueria. At that time the store already had a prestigious reputation as it was one of the biggest and best-stocked in Barcelona. |
1898Domingo Taberner decides to demolish the four buildings and build a new one in their place where he puts, on the top, an image of Saint Eulalia that can still be seen today. The modernista architect Pere Falqués, creator of the streetlamps on Passeig de Gràcia, supervises the permit and construction begins at the end of 1899. |
Planos del nuevo edificio del Pla de la Boquería en 1898. |
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