L'Institut Pere Mata is a psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospital

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, are hospitals specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Some hospitals may specialise only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients...

 in Reus

Reus

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, Catalonia

Catalonia

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, Spain

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. The building was designed by the Catalan Modernist

Modernisme

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 architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner

Lluís Domènech i Montaner

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. The hospital predates Hospital Sant Pau of Barcelona

Barcelona

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and it has a similar structure. Lluís Domènech i Montaner followed the structure of different buildings for different specialities.

The building process took place from 1897 to 1912.

Nowadays the building is still in use as psychiatric hospital, but one of the pavilions is not anymore in medical use and can be visited.