Nuria Pla House Museum

This beautiful estate house, surrounded by gardens, was once the family home of Dr. Nuria Pla , while, in 2015, it opened to the public, to exhibit her private hoard of furniture, lovingly amassed over six decades of collecting.

A trove of 800 pieces, from the 16th to the 19th century, would no doubt be enough to make the Nuria Pla House Museum one of Europe’s foremost furniture exhibits in itself, but in fact this masia -style mansion holds a fascinating story that goes beyond far beyond cabinets and commodes…

A Unique History

This house was built in 1928 for Nuria Pla’s father, Dr. Ramon Pla Armengol , along with his business partner, the veterinarian Joaquim Ravetllat i Estech. The two of them worked tirelessly to treat the disease tuberculosis and hoped to find a cure with a serum made of horse’s blood. For that reason they built this estate on the outskirts of Barcelona, which was to serve as their laboratory and stables, as well ...