Martí Pujol

Martí Pujol i Planas (1859-1926) was a Spanish landowner and politician, who was mayor of Badalona twice, from 1906 to 1910 and from 1912 to 1913.

He was an important landowner whose lands were next to stream of Canyet, in the current neighbourhood of Bufalà.

He was one of the founders of the Foment de l'Agricultura in 1884, a local agrarian association appeared during the plague of the phylloxera which seriously affected and destructed many vineyards.

After a political and administrative period of chaos in the city council because of caciquism, in 1905 he was elected councilor along other members of their political candidacy formed in 1899, linked to a catalanist local center named Gent Nova.

During his term were created different public institutions like Casa Empar for orphans, or a School of Agriculture, Arts and Jobs.