Caldes en Temps de Guerres

Fabrellas Inn – Totem Pole

In 1944, Caldes received over 1,000 Italian soldiers and the Franco administration spread them out over the three thermal spas, but also had to use the Fabrellas Inn and Ribot Inn.

The Fabrellas Inn accommodated almost 50 sailors from the Italian navy. Three of them escaped and arrived in Barcelona with stolen bicycles, one of which belonged to the aunt of the writer Joaquim Carbó. Once in the capital, they headed to the Italian consulate because they wanted to enlist at the front to fight with allied Italy. But the consulate persuaded them to return to the Fabrellas Inn, since internment was about to end and the war quickly came to an end.