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Book One hundred years of the Barcelona Metro (1924-2024)

A story that goes from the beginning of the first works to the projection of the metro of the future.

Fragment of the prologue "El Metro talks", by Josep Maria Espinàs

One Hundred Years of the Barcelona Metro (1924 - 2024) explains the one hundred years of history of the metro through a historical summary and graphic material mainly from the TMB Foundation archives, as well as others.

We present a chronological approach to the history of the Barcelona Metro with a clear visual focus, featuring a wealth of photographs and illustrations that tell the story of the metro's expansion across the city and its metropolitan area. These images serve as a great attraction for revisiting the various stages of the metro and the historical events that have shaped the development of the subway.

The volume is an expanded and updated reissue of the book originally created for the 90th anniversary, now including new original material, and has been published in collaboration with the Government of Catalonia and the City Council of Barcelona.

"... The metro was born. It could be said that it was the conquest of a third dimension: the underground. The metro, which was initially a single tunnel, has progressively branched out to become a network. Like a fabric that is becoming increasingly dense. This has allowed the emergence of an entirely new perception, which incorporates two fundamental values of life: time and distance. I think of ancient times, when man only had his feet to move around. A limitation shared with most land animals, which was later modified with the use of horses and carts.

Until the metro introduced a great innovation: speed. In large cities, speed of travel was achieved precisely because the paths opened by the metro trains were not hindered by surface obstacles and could, therefore, maintain a fast and sustained speed.

Today, an imagined Barcelona without the metro is inconceivable. The city would be like an organism that had its basic nerves removed."

Excerpt from the prologue "The Metro speaks", by Josep Maria Espinàs.

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