Jacint Capmany and his wife Francesca Roura, Lluís Domènech's brothers-in-law, commissioned the architect to build a summer house in 1889, which was finally built in 1891.
The building has a rectangular ground plan and a gabled roof, with exposed brick façades and a circular corner tower crowned with a conical dome covered with ceramic scales.
This tower, which makes the façade turn and is reinforced by a continuous balcony-terrace, had already been used in the Ateneu de Canet and would be a common solution in other projects by Domènech.
It has a ground floor and first floor, but the central part houses a large double-height living room covered with an impressive wooden truss in the manner of an inverted naval construction. The rest of the building's horizontal structure, other floors and balconies, are made of metal.
An extensive programme of applied arts decorates the entire interior and exterior of the house: glazed ceramics, mosaic flooring, woodwork, wrought ironwork, stone sculpture, etc. The ceramics are the work of Josep Ros and Pau Pujol.
The ornamental references to the medieval world are continuous, and for example the front and back façades are resolved with a stepped gable with medieval central European reminiscences.
It is currently a restaurant.
It is a ground floor and first floor building with a gable roof and a circular tower attached to the façade with a conical roof. The building is surrounded by a garden.
The topmost part of the façades – both the main façade and the rear façade – is stepped in the style of medieval Dutch architecture.
Part of the main façade and the angular tower are highlighted by a balcony that rests on large, stepped, masonry brackets.
The entire building is made of exposed brick, with iron balconies and glazed tile roofs. The gargoyles of the tower, which is one storey higher, are also glazed ceramic.
The main entrance has been mutilated by alterations to the street and the former chapel has been subdivided horizontally in order to house two bedrooms.
However, the dining room remains in very good condition, as does the high gallery that surrounds it.
It is necessary to frame the building within the modernist current of neo-Gothic reminiscences.
Casa Roura, also known as Ca la Bianga and later converted into the Fonda Canet, is located on Riera de Sant Domènec in Canet de Mar. It is a complete renovation of the old Roura house, built by Domènech i Montaner, probably around the same time that he built the café-restaurant for the Universal Exhibition of 1888 (the Castle of the Three Dragons). Both buildings are of exposed brickwork and are of a formal austerity.
It is now called Fonda Sant Jordi.