Did you know that in the middle of Passeig de Gràcia hides the safe of an old bank? It can be visited and is located on the premises of the largest Stradivarius clothing store in the world.
The Inditex brand has this secret in the basement of its flagship store, which is how it is known to the reference store in size and sales volume within a company.
It is located at number 3 Passeig de Gràcia, headquarters for 80 years of the Central Bank of Barcelona. It is not the only one. Several buildings in the area housed financial institutions during the twentieth century, as this was the center of the city, but with the change of uses of the spaces, these buildings have been giving way to fashion stores.
If you access it and go down to the fitting rooms, located on floor -1, you will find the old bank vault where clients kept gold, money, documents or jewelry, among other valuables.
Currently the vault has been integrated into the store design, but it is fully visitable and still keeps the original safes of the time.
Veterans will also remember it for being the headquarters of Adidas in Barcelona for a long time, just when it ceased to exist as a bank and began to house businesses.
The aesthetics of the store is inspired by the decade of the 20’s of the last century, and in fact elements of that period have been retained as tiles, ceilings or wrought iron.
In the more than 2,000 meters of store space that this Stradivarius store has, the vault plays the role of delivery and collection point for online packages and returns management, as well as the Fragrance Lab, the space dedicated to the brand’s perfume line.