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The train entered the daily life of Sants in 1854 when the section that went from Barcelona to Molins de Rei was completed. Two events caused this old independent municipality to be crossed by numerous railway lines, being a natural gateway to Barcelona and the progressive installation of large factories in the old agricultural land of Sants. Communicating productive centers was essential for businessmen and for that reason the lines continued to grow.

In this logic, the line of the Catalan Ferrocarrils, then Compañía de los Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España, which linked Barcelona with Martorell was promoted. For that time the Bordeta and Hostafrancs were already important industrial centers. Since 1880 the Bordeta was already operating the textile factory of Can Batlló and since 1908 in the area known as Magoria, it was also possible to find the great Building and Construction Promotion industry that exploded the quarries of Montjuïc and collected the garbage from the city.

In 1912 Magoria station was inaugurated. A building that bears the name of the neighboring neighborhood but which is on the side of the Gran Via, which is still the Bordeta. The project was commissioned to a very popular architect at the time, Josep Domènech Estapà, who left his mark, working alone or with equipment, works and renovations of many buildings in the city of Barcelona: the church of Sant Andreu de Palomar; the Academy of Sciences; the Palace of Justice; the Palau Ramon Montaner (the current Government Delegation), the Faculty of Medicine, the Hospital Clínic, the Fabra Observatory or the Model Prison among many others.

We can locate this building within the well-known historicist architecture that many examples left in Barcelona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The architect took the neo-Mudejar architecture as inspiration for the building. In fact the most characteristic element of the station is its tower that is inspired by the minarets of the mosques.

In 1926 the inauguration of the underground station of the Plaza of Spain caused the Station of Magoria to be left unused for passengers and it seems that during the Civil War the danger of bombardment caused the dismantling of part of the tower, in order not to provide references to the Italian pilots. In fact, it is not at all strange if we think that during the Magoria conflict it was a warehouse of the Republican army.

After the war, however, the station was still used as a freight station until 1974. After many years left in 2006, it became a Civic Center of the Generalitat and today the building is considered a cultural asset of local interest. Now a new underground station has kept the service and the name, Magòria - la Campana.

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