The Claretian community arrived in Barcelona in 1860 when they founded the "New Convent" in a modest building surrounded by fields of cultivation on the suburbs of Gràcia., a village that was integrated into Barcelona in 1897. In 1871 the educational activities began with the foundation of the first Claretian school in Barcelona (then Gracia). At that time, there was only one school for boys in Barcelona, the Escolapis in Raval
