The old walls of the now-closed La Modelo prison have sprouted some interesting new murals after a recent urban art festival. What’s going on down at the jail?
The old walls of the now-closed La Modelo prison have sprouted some interesting new murals after a recent urban art festival. What’s going on down at the jail?
I would call La Modelo sort of the Alcatraz of Barcelona, and free public visits were recently offered as it is now out-of-date, closed, empty, eerie, haunted, and scheduled for a major gutting and/or demolition. So off we went.
Both Alcatraz and La Modelo (la Model in Catalan) are islands of a sort…the first surrounded by water, the latter surrounded by city. And both are historical icons for their respective cultures…