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La Panera Contemporary Art Center

The old Almodí (grocery warehouse), in baroque style built between the 12th and 13th centuries with the last intervention in 2003 - Cultural Property of Local Interest (BCIL)

The Art Center of La Panera is a cultural facility for the production and dissemination of contemporary visual arts, as the result of cooperation between the Lleida City Council and the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and is part of the Network of Centers of Visual Arts of Catalonia. Founded in 2003, it collects the Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial project (1997) and works of the peninsular art scene, committed at the same time to emerging art and critical culture.

The building that houses the Art Centre of La Panera dates back to the Consulate period of the 12th and 13th centuries, one of the most prosperous episodes in medieval Lleida. El  Almodí, as the building was then known, was the city's trading house and the place where many goods were traded, such as cereals, oil and grapes. Its use to store and sell the products collected by canonicals, had given its name, Panera dels Canònicos.

With the seizure of the monasteries in 1835 it passed into the hands of the Paeria, or local government, which offered it to the army. In 1860 it became the cavalry barracks, and was subsequently used as a police station before being returned to the Paeria at the end of the 1980s. The decision was taken to turn it into an art centre, and recent refurbishment work has revealed the Medieval colonnade in all its glory.

Schedule
  • From Tuesday to Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
  • Sundays and holidays, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. 
  • Closed on monday, December 25th and 26th, and January 1st and 6th.
Observations
  • Free entry.
  • Check the current programming.
  • Easy access. The building is framed by the streets of Sant Martí, La Panera and Peralta, with the main access via Sant Martí street.

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