This gallery contains images intended to give a comprehensive idea of the physical characteristics of the women’s prison premises.
Some of these images are old, from the time of the asylum school, such as those by the geologist and palaeontologist Marià Faura i Sans—who was the rector of the Remei parish in Les Corts—in 1914, and others are later. The Francoist regime publicised some of these photographs with the intention of projecting a timeless and almost idyllic image of the prison, such as those showing the garden and pond in the foreground, or the long entrance path flanked by trees and palm trees.
Specifically, the photograph of the entrance with the palm trees presents an image that would deceive many first-time inmates. When in 1942, the Englishwoman Mavis Bacca Dowden entered Les Corts accused of espionage, she too was deceived by this idyllic appearance, which was so different from the reality it concealed, as she explained in her memoirs.
