In Catalonia there are 3,933 schools, but only one can boast of having been inaugurated by the writer and philosopher Eugeni d'Ors. Not only that, it can also claim to be the only one still operating of the four schools created by the Mancomunidad (Commonwealth) as a model for the educational reform it sought to promote. This is the Til·lers, a small rural school that has been running since 1919 and is located right at the beginning (or end) of the village of La Masó, in the Alt Camp region. "We were happy and content there," recalls Anton Banús, a 53-year-old man who seems to long for that childhood. "The village has changed a lot because agriculture is declining," he laments. La Masó is completely surrounded by hazelnut trees, one of the fruit trees that has suffered the most from the recent drought. There are so many in the village that one has even encroached upon the schoolyard, with the permission of the three centuries-old linden trees that watch over it and give it its name.

In just twenty-five years, Barcelona saw major insurrections, attempts to change the world, fierce repression, a population explosion, a true urban transformation, and an intense cultural life. There were those who wanted revolution and those who wanted to impose order. Anarchism, republicanism, anticlericalism, antimilitarism, Catalanism, colonialism, the labor movement... all converged. It's extremely complicated to summarize what happened between 1900 and 1925. Not only because of everything that happened in the city, but also because of everything that happened abroad and what ended abroad (1909-1927), the First World War (1914-1918), and the Russian Revolution (1917), among many other international conflicts.