This morning, the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site has joined the celebration of the International Day of Deafblind People, offering a guided tour adapted to ONCE Catalonia to give visibility to deafblindness and offer a unique sensory experience to this community. collective.

A group of 60 ONCE members with deafblindness, together with their guides and interpreters, took a guided tour in which they were able to immerse themselves, through touch, in the global representation of modernism, with the different materials that it contains. : ceramics, marble, iron, mosaics, wood and stained glass, among others. With their fingers and tactile information they have been able to experience what they cannot see with their eyes.

The visit has been adapted as much as possible to the characteristics and profiles of members with deafblindness, where there are people who neither see nor feel and also people who are totally blind and have hearing loss or profoundly deaf with visual loss.

“We are very pleased to contribute to an inclusive culture of this reference space in the city of Barcelona where history and innovation coexist and bring it closer to deafblind people, who have been able to get to know it with the sensitivity of its sayings,” he said. highlighted Enric Botí, delegate of ONCE Catalunya.

Tools have been incorporated into the visit route to make it more accessible and specific training has been provided to the teams of guides and informants.

Furthermore, with the aim of continuing to improve in terms of inclusion and accessibility, the Santa Cruz and Sant Pau Hospital Foundation has recalled that the design and supply of a tactile map and a new tactile model for visitors with visual disabilities have already been put out to tender. and, this same month of June, the tender for the installation of a magnetic loop system for people with hearing disabilities has also been published. These actions will be carried out throughout the last quarter of 2024.