HOW TO VISIT PERE MATA INSTITUTE, MODERNIST JEWEL IN REUS; SCHEDULES, TICKET PRICES

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Distinguished Pavilion at Pere Mata de Reus Institute

If you are a regular reader of Travel Guides You will know about our special predilection for modern architecture, and in this respect you already know that the city of Barcelona It contains really sublime corners.

But in Catalonia there are also other very good examples of this type of architecture, such as those we have just discovered in our most recent trip to Tarragona and its province.

Specifically I mean Reus, the city where he was born Gaudi,

Pere Mata de Reus Institute

In this town of Tarragona you can visit a modernist route seeing interesting houses among which the Navas House and, above all, the Pere Mata Institute.

The latter is a psychiatric hospital complex located on the outskirts of Reus, so I advise you to start in the Pere Mata your visit to this town in the interior of Tarragona.

Pere Mata de Reus Institute History

It was at the end of the 19th century when the doctor Emili Briansó together with the intellectual Pau Font by Rubinat promoted the construction of a psychiatric hospital in Reus.

Distinguished Pavilion at Pere Mata de Reus Institute

For this they decided to follow the architectural trend of art noveau which was beginning to prevail in Europe.

This project was commissioned to Lluís Domènech i Montaner, one of the most prestigious modernist architects along with Gaudi, whose best samples in Barcelona are the Catalan music palace and the Sant Pau Hospital.

Six large pavilions were built from the initial big project, although later the architect's son led the construction of eight other pavilions, although without continuing to follow the modernist style.

What to see in the Pere Mata Institute visit

Currently this psychiatric complex is still fully operational in its health work, but you can visit the main buildings.

Distinguished Pavilion at Pere Mata de Reus Institute

Specifically, known as Pavilion of the Distinguished, because there were patients who were members of the Catalan high bourgeoisie.

When you arrive before this art noveau building of Pere Mata Institute, you will see the great role that nature had in this architectural movement.

The pavilion is in an environment of nature, surrounded by a garden, and its facade shows a building with exposed bricks, ceramics and multiple decorative elements reflecting nature.

In you walk inside the Pere Mata you can also see the great use of decorative arts in each of the objects and corners of its multiple dependencies.

I anticipate that you will be impressed by the decorative beauty of the great hall, which is currently still used for events.

But you can also walk through the upper gallery and access some of the rooms where the illustrious patients of the Pere Mata.

Schedules visit Pere Mata Institute in Reus

For visit the Pavilion of the Distinguished of Pere Mata you must sign up for Guided visits which organizes the Reus Tourist Office.

The Pere Mata visiting hours they are from June to September and from Monday to Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m., and the rest of the year, from 12 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Every Sunday and holidays of the year the visiting hours are from 12 to 14 hours.

Distinguished Pavilion at Pere Mata de Reus Institute

Pere Mata Institute ticket prices

He ticket price It is 6 euros for adults, 4 euros for children from 9 to 14 years old and seniors + 65, entering under 8 years free.

For you Reus visit, you can also purchase the tourist bracelet which for 12 euros allows you to access other tourist attractions in the city such as Gaudi Center, he Reus museum or the bell tower of the church of Sant Pere.