The Classic Bus Exhibition of Barcelona was born from the joint efforts of the company Sagalés, the TMB Foundation, and the Association for the Recovery and Conservation of Buses (ARCA).
The aim is to revalue the heritage and history of surface-level urban and suburban public transport. As custodians of historical material and actively involved in its preservation, conservation and restoration through three different approaches (public company, private company and volunteer association), the goal is to share it with the public, so they can enjoy a type of material that, having been part of public transport, has also been part of many citizens’ lives.
The teamwork of the organisers led in 2010 to the first edition of an event with no similar references in the Iberian Peninsula, which has continued uninterrupted up to this 11th edition. It has gained an international dimension thanks to foreign participants, increasing the number of side activities each year and, above all, featuring more participating vehicles in every edition.
