Book about a Piera farmhouse helps solve Civil War disappearance

Research on Can Fontanelles leads to the identification of Pere Guilera Xaus' remains in Mataró cemetery.

Generic image of a traditional Catalan farmhouse with old documents on a table.
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Generic image of a traditional Catalan farmhouse with old documents on a table.

Authors Mònica Morros Serra and Ester Serra Térmens have successfully located the remains of Pere Guilera Xaus, a resident of Anoia missing since the Spanish Civil War, through historical research in Mataró.

The discovery resulted from the documentation process for the book Can Fontanelles. La història d'un país a través de la seva gent. This work reconstructs the history of a Piera farmhouse using family archives, providing key details about Guilera's fate.
Following the data provided to democratic memory agencies, the Generalitat de Catalunya confirmed he is buried at the Caputxins Cemetery in Mataró. The site was recently honored on March 7 with commemorative plaques for those in mass graves.
The identification was supported by historians Maria Salicrú-Maltas and Juli Cuéllar, who have named over 250 individuals buried there, mostly soldiers who died in local military hospitals during the war.