50 anys de les riuades

Message of the exhibition: «When water occupies areas that are usually free of it, we speak of floods; events that have occurred throughout history and to which human beings have…

The Centre d'interpretació del Patrimoni Molí d'en Rata, on carrer del Molí d'en Rata in Ripollet, hosts this exhibition on floods, phenomena that recur throughout history and to which communities have had to learn to respond. The starting point is simple: when water occupies areas that are normally free of it, it is called a flood.

The focus of the display is the overflowing of the River Ripoll, which marked a before and after in the relationship between the people of the Vallès and the residents of Ripollet. The exhibition texts recall a day of continuous rain, with the light cut off by night, when the riverbed and the torrents overflowed, sweeping away houses, objects, logs, stones and people.

Because of its historical approach, the proposal will interest those who want to learn how a flood affected one specific municipality and how, since then, coexistence with the river has changed.