Biography

During the 1980s, Sant Adrià added two important buildings to its skyline, practically next to each other. The first was the Escola Catalunya, followed by the Institut Sant Adrià del Besòs, which was renamed the Institut Manuel Vázquez Montalbán in 2004. Both buildings were designed by architect Oriol Bohigas (1925-2021). The current name of the school refers to the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939-2003), in permanent tribute to his role as a chronicler of life on the margins of cities and in the most invisible and forgotten spaces of everyday stories.   

Information updated as of September 2025