This is a three-story attached building, with three bays and a chapel dedicated to Mare de D\u00e9u del Carme (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) adjoining the right-hand side. It features a gable front fa\u00e7ade, and a flat roof over the chapel, which is a rectangular, neo-Gothic structure with a single nave.<\/p>\n
Female education was practically non-existent in the village in the mid-19th century, so in 1876, the parish priest Ramon Sitjar and Paula Despuig, superior general of the congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, oversaw the opening of a school for girls in premises opposite the church loaned by a person from Sant Climent d\u2019Amer. This had become possible thanks to a financial grant from Ramon Camprodon, a monk granted exclaustration during the First Republic taking refuge in La Cellera. The school chapel was not inaugurated until 1884. In 1885, a cholera outbreak meant that both the school and the convent were used temporarily as a hospital to care for the sick.<\/p>\n
Gradually, the number of pupils at the school increased and it became an integral part of the local community. For girls who worked during the week, a Sunday school was even opened. Over the years, some thirty local women took up positions at one or other of the village\u2019s school centres.<\/p>\n
During the Spanish Civil War, the building was converted into a stable and sheep pen, although the people of the village helped support the community of nuns, in thanks for the services they had offered.<\/p>\n
In 1940, a class for boys was introduced, and in 1970 the Cellera community merged with that of Girona. Shortly afterwards, the school closed and only a kindergarten remained here. In 1977, after major renovations, the building was fitted out as a residence and sanctuary for elderly Carmelite sisters who had retired from active life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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