The espadrille trade has a rural base as farmers used to make espadrilles in rainy and cold weather days but according to the "Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana" it dates back from the XVII century. On this web you will be able to know more about this trade and its characteristics such as the Empordanesa espadrille, one of the most popular and well-known. Though now we shall focus on our shop so that you familiarise with the present Mauné Shoemakers.

A century

Mauné Shoemakers is a hundred year-old footwear shop. By 1906, Florenci Marimont, the present owner’s great grandfather, set up shop in Gatillepis street, the present Alvarez de Castro Street and started making espadrilles. He had a variety of benches and a lot of apprentices. It was called "Florenci’s the espadrille maker".
In 1924, he married Carles Mauné’s daughter. Carles Mauné was an espadrille maker and a musician and in 1939 they moved their shop to Lasauca Street and it was called "Teresa Marimont’s Footwear". They continued making espadrilles and going from town to town bartering shoes for flour or other goods. From 1950, their son Florenci, who was a musician, composer and director of orchestra (using MP3, you can download one of his most beautiful "sardanes": "Encara hi soc"  click on the image), together with his wife Isabel went on with the shop and little by little started selling shoes and after some refurbishing the name changed to Mauné Shoemakers.
In March 2000, Mauné Shoemakers completely refurbished the shop where you can find all type of footwear, all the styles and for all the ages: children’s shoes, young people’s shoes, men’s shoes, women’s shoes, espadrilles, slippers and special width shoes. 
How many feet must have our shoes worn? Some very important ones like Salvador Dalí’s, with his peculiar espadrilles or his wife Gala’s.