Life in mining towns was hard, due to their isolation and to the fact that all their inhabitants depended on the mine and the miner company. Until the civil war, despite the isolation, the colonies strongly live the political and social demands: the constant confrontation with the company, the fight for working and social demands, the anticlericalism, the power of CNT-FAI labour union cannot be sorted out from its history.
The colony was a lively village, that was pulsating at the sound of the feast of Santa Bàrbara, the miner’s patron saint, when the mourning filled the hearts during the tragic accidents, and when the time of the disturbances and the work claims arrived.