With more than 159 years of footwear experience, Carmina Shoemakers is forging ahead with the family still at the helm.

Carmina made its first foray into the shoes back in 1866 when Matías Pujadas opened a small workshop in Inca, Majorca, and began crafting tailor-made shoes.

A generation later in 1905, his son Mateo Pujadas followed in his father’s footsteps and opened one of the first factories of Goodyear-stitched shoes in the Balearic Islands. Then, in 1961, the founder’s great-grandson José Albaladejo Pujadas took the company one step further when he set up one of the largest shoe companies in Spain after studying in Florence, Italy. And just in one year later, the brand’s signature Loafer Mod. 1330 model was born.

In 1998, the company opened its first store in Madrid, and now ha

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