Igualada Leather Museum and County Museum of Anoia

The Igualada Leather Museum and County Museum of Anoia is housed in two buildings of great symbolic value for Igualada’s industrial history, mainly based on the manufacture of wool and leather:

Cal Boyer was built to meet the demands of the burgeoning local cotton industry at the end of the 19^th century and was the second building of this type to be constructed in the city, improving on the older factory of the company La Igualadina Cotonera. Built in 1897, the two-storey factory had a rectangular floor plan. It was supported by two rows of cast iron columns on the ground floor, by the walls themselves and by a truss structure on the upper floor. A second building was added between 1910 and 1920.

The old tannery of Cal Granotes is a two-storey pre-industrial building located right next to the Igualada irrigation channel where the traditional vegetable tanning of large hides (ox and cow, etc.) was carried out, mostly for the production of shoe soles. Cal Granotes began to operate as a tannery before 1763. The original tanning pits have been preserved in this stone and mortar building. The ground floor is where the preparation and tanning of the hides took place, while the upper floor was used for drying and finishing the leather.