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La Escuela Municipal de Artes y Oficios "Juan Manuel Zafra" in the Clot.

Secondary School - Juan Manuel Zafra (1911)

Rogent Street - Num 51 / Architects: Pere Falques and Antoni Falguera

Not all modern beauty of the city are in elegant long walks or avenues. The School of Arts and Crafts "Juan Manuel de Zafra" is a good example of the city's industrial heritage. Escondida

Street Rogent in the neighborhood of Clot , was built in 1911 under the guidance of local architects Falques Pere, (author of the streetlamps very famous Paseo de Gracia) and Antoni Falguera (Author remodeling of City Hall in 1929) School presents a facade of brick, decorated with beautiful ceramic details and wrought iron so typical of modernism. To highlight the coat of arms that crowns the building well as the sign of the building, made with " Majolica " a kind of Italian pottery with metallic sheen.

This building (which originally was going to work as poorhouse) s and placed in 1911 the school of arts and crafts with a capacity for 700 students and aimed training future supervisors or managers of chemical industries, textiles and mechanical.

Notice published in La Vanguardia English in the late 60's.

worked as such slight alterations until 1952, when coinciding with a national education reform, is converted in the School of the new Vocational Training . addition School was named as Juan Manuel de Zafra.

Juan Manuel de Zafra man still continues to name the building, was at the beginning of last century a prominent engineer and inventor, specializing in construction and use of concrete.

school teaching was recognized by the Ministry of Education granted the official title of Industrial and access to jobs for milling, lathe or electrician.

With the advent of democracy, continuing professional training school operating under the name of "Escola Zafra" until early 2000 was converted Secondary School in Zafra and subjected to a comprehensive restructuring the building and facilities.