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These are original hand-drawn parcel maps of the province of Barcelo-na. They are from the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona, where surveying was taught until the mid-19th century. Elíes Rogent put together this collection from private collections of surveyor-architects such as Carlos Gaurán, Jean-Antoine Laur, Joan Soler i Mestres, Tomás Soler i Ferrer and Miquel Garriga i Roca. The collection reveals the historical deve-lopment of land use and spatial development in municipalities such as Manresa, Martorell, Molins de Rei, Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, Sitges, Vic, Vilafranca del Penedès and the city of Barcelona. The archive also has a collection of handwritten and printed maps.The collection includes 96 documents, many of them accessible in the Digital Memory of Catalonia.

3. Maps by surveyors and other old maps (1751-1904)

Maps by surveyors and other old maps (1751-1904)

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Cardoso, Joseph. Geodesic Plan of Barcelona, 1700. AG-012851.

Maps by surveyors and other old maps (1751-1904)

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Soler i Ferrer, Tomàs. Geometric Plan of Land Situated Within the Boundaries of Argentona and Cabrera..., c. 1820. AG-013213.Soler i Ferrer, Tomàs. Geometric Plan of Land Situated Within the Boundaries of Argentona and Cabrera that irrigate with the waters that gather the acequia of the flour mills of Don Juan and gift Jose Antonio Palau, of Antonio Gual and of Dona Mariana Campllonch and Jofre, c. 1820. AG-013213.

Maps by surveyors and other old maps (1751-1904)

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Soler i Mestres, Joan. Sketch Showing the Perimeter of the Town of Olesa de Montserrat in the Province and Bishopric of Barcelona..., c. 1850. AG-0013245.

Garriga i Roca, Miquel. Geometric Plan of the Town of Martorell, 1850. AG-013198.