Palo Alto

Palo Alto is a centre for artistic and cultural production that launched in 1989. Its origins date back to the late 19th century when Antoni Vila i Bruguera was commissioned to build a woollen mill. The building was abandoned a century later and subsequently repurposed as a centre dedicated to a wide range of cultural and creative projects.

Over the past 30 years, professionals and enterprises from the fields of the visual arts, communication and design-related industries have shaped the identity of the Palo Alto we know today: a space that has set the benchmark for biodiversity, with more than 200 plant species in its garden, and the sustainable management and preservation of its industrial heritage. Since 2021 it has occupied the former warehouse, the Nau Escoleta, which runs cultural and creative projects associated with emerging artists, further education students, university graduates and undergraduates, and local art collectives.