This village, close to the road from Barcelona to Puigcerdà, is linked to the Vilaseca and Torelló settlements. It is located on a large backwater of the River Ter, at the western end of the municipality.

The colony is a small working-class village that was built together with the factory and is presided over by the neo-Gothic chapel built over an ancient Marian sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin of Burgundy, which is recorded as early as the 13th century.

The colony of Borgonyà is made up of several elements, making it a highly complex colony. It is a complex made up of an industrial complex that develops between the course of the River Ter and the railway line and a residential complex that develops to the north of the railway line and is bounded to the west by the river.

This nucleus, close to the road from Barcelona to Puigcerdà, is linked to the Vilaseca and Torelló settlement. It is located on a large backwater of the river Ter, at the western end of the municipality.
The colony is a small working-class village that was built together with the factory and is presided over by the neo-Gothic chapel built over an ancient Marian sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin of Burgundy, which is recorded as early as the 13th century.
The colony of Borgonyà is made up of several elements, making it a highly complex colony. It is a complex made up of an industrial complex that develops between the course of the River Ter and the railway line and a residential complex that develops to the north of the railway line and is bounded to the west by the river.
The Colonia Borgonyà is a relevant, representative and singular example in the context of the industrial textile colonies built in Catalonia during the second half of the 19th century, which were so important in the social and economic structuring of our country.
The singularity of the Colonia Borgonyà comes from its origin (as it was founded with capital from Scotland), its urban and architectural approach, its territorial, technical and social evolution from 1893 to the seventies of the 20th century, and also from its autonomy and self-sufficiency with respect to the centre of Sant Vicenç de Torelló. Colonia Borgonyà even has its own cemetery since the 1920s. It should also be considered a singularity that it has followed a different process, practically the other way round, from the rest of the colonies. In fact, many of these colonies were born from the transfer outside Barcelona of manufacturing facilities that had originated in that city, while Borgonyà, which was born on the banks of the Ter, merged with a factory in Sant Andreu del Palomar and both grew together from that time onwards.
The ‘village’ of Borgonyà has its origins in an ancient chapel dedicated to the Virgin of Borgonyà, documented from 1298, located in the space currently occupied by the church.
There is documentary evidence that work began in 1893 and that the colony was inaugurated in 1895. The colony grew successively according to industrial and social needs and requirements until it was closed in 2000.
The Borgonyà Colony is basically made up of two areas, the industrial area and the residential area, to which must be added the facilities.
Within the industrial precinct, of particular note are the large, Manchester-style Factory No. 1 building, the power station, the various factory buildings and the chimney, as well as the dam and the sluice.
The residential area includes the houses in Paisley, Scotland and Coats Streets, the manager's tower and the manager's cottage and the later residential buildings, as well as the landscaping and other public spaces.
It is worth mentioning the church, its own cemetery, the school, the theatre-casino, the nursery, the cooperative and the exceptional football pitch.
Colonia Borgonyà is an urban centre which, due to its industrial, landscape, morphological, urban, architectural, constructive and historical characteristics, conserves the urban layout of the industrial colonies of the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.