Biography

The old Juan Manuel Zafra Secondary School, now known as Caterina Albert, was founded in 1892 in a modernist building. It was initially designed to house a refuge for poor women, but it was converted to an arts and crafts training school. Now it is a public centre with three ESO classes per year and two Baccalaureate classes that incorporates students from Primary schools in the area.

In 2020, the community of this public secondary school in the Camp de l’Arpa district of El Clot decided to adopt the name Caterina Albert, a leading figure of Catalan modernism that furthermore symbolises the recognition of gender equality.