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Together with Plaça de la Concòrdia and Plaça de Can Rosés, Plaça de Comas forms the most authentic original axis of the historic town of Les Corts. The square is dedicated to Josep Comas i Masferrer, son of Dolors Masferrer, the promoter of the urbanization of this area, and a liberal politician who chaired the Provincial Council. The square and the surrounding streets were developed on the initiative of the owner of Can Sòl de Dalt, Dolors Masferrer i Bosch, who proposed to Barcelona City Council to convert the lands of her farmhouse into an urban space. In the first place, the Town Hall was built and in 1981, the square. Neuralgic point of local power During the forties of the nineteenth century, the most important landowning families who had always been supporters of independence, proposed the consolidation of the municipality as such. A cemetery, a parish and a town hall were needed, essential to take on the urban and demographic growth caused by industrialization. The building was built in 1882 by Antoni Rovira i Rabassa to house the town hall of the independent town of Les Corts, an institution that lasted a short time since in 1897 the town was annexed to Barcelona. The historic building, currently home to the district of Les Corts, has a neoclassical aftertaste observable in the decorative elements of the façade, the triangular pediment-shaped crown of which stands out with the coat of arms of Les Corts. In the noble spaces (the old council chamber and the main offices) there is a remarkable collection of paintings by Antoni M. Fabrés i Costa (1854-1936), owned by the National Art Museum of Catalonia. On the ground floor there is the Les Corts Exhibition Space, an open space with temporary art exhibitions, and the Municipal Archive of Les Corts.

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