[7] At an early age, Guimerà's family moved to Catalonia, where they settled at his father's birthplace, El Vendrell.

He lived for many years with journalist and politician Pere Aldavert i Martorell; on 14 February 1910 they granted each other legal powers for the other's affairs before a notary.

[9] When Guimerà died in 1924, he was offered a state funeral in Barcelona of a proportion which had never been seen before and was buried at the Montjuïc Cemetery.

Terra baixa is the story of Marta, a poor girl from Barcelona, who finds herself the young lover to Sebastià, the most important landowner in the Catalan lowlands.

To squelch gossip of his relationship with Marta but still keep her as his lover, Sebastià marries her off to the unsuspecting Manelic, a young shepherd from the Pyrenees, and sets the newly weds up in the house attached to the town's mill.

Another well-known work by Guimerà is the play La filla del mar (The daughter of the sea, 1900), that recounts the story of Àgata (Agate).

The story of Àgata involves numerous literary allusions and archetypes, from mythological aquatic characters, to the legend of Sappho committing suicide by throwing herself from a cliff into the sea.

[10] The main theater of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the oldest on the Canary Islands, is called Teatro Guimerá after this playwright.

This original model was then expanded by Josep Maria Codina for Barcelona's Plaça del Pi in 1983.