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Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
The Barcelona Modernisme Route, organized by the Institut Municipal del Paisatge Urbà, is an itinerary that takes you through the Barcelona of Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner, Puig i Cadafalch, than together with others, made Barcelona the world capital of Modernisme. This Route enables you to get to know thoroughly impressive palatial residences, amazing houses, the Sagrada Famila Temple, a symbol of the city, and a huge hospital complex, and includes also humbler and more everyday buildings and items such as chemists’, shops, lampposts and benches - 115 works in...
Casa Santurce, Modernist building, Barcelona apartment accommodation
The Barcelona Modernisme Route, organized by the Institut Municipal del Paisatge Urbà, is an itinerary that takes you through the Barcelona of Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner, Puig i Cadafalch, than together with others, made Barcelona the world capital of Modernisme. This Route enables you to get to know thoroughly impressive palatial residences, amazing houses, the Sagrada Famila Temple, a symbol of the city, and a huge hospital complex, and includes also humbler and more everyday buildings and items such as chemists’, shops, lampposts and benches - 115 works in...
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Plaça Catalunya once stood outside the city walls, and was a yard outside the city located just in front of one of the main gates, from roads started to the surrounding populations. This made it the ideal place to for an open market and became an important point in the life of the city.
When the walls were demolished the new city urban plan (L’Eixample) designed by Ildefonso Cerdà. Cerdà did not include any special place where the Plaça Catalunya is now located, since, according to the project, the Barcelona Gothic neighborhood and the other old...
Plaça Catalunya
Plaça Catalunya once stood outside the city walls, and was a yard outside the city located just in front of one of the main gates, from roads started to the surrounding populations. This made it the ideal place to for an open market and became an important point in the life of the city.
When the walls were demolished the new city urban plan (L’Eixample) designed by Ildefonso Cerdà. Cerdà did not include any special place where the Plaça Catalunya is now located, since, according to the project, the Barcelona Gothic neighborhood and the other old...
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Inside Barcelona there are few examples of the Romanesque Art.
The Church of Sant Pau del Camp (Saint Paul of the field) together with a small cloister, in the Raval Neighborhood, are the only buildings that remain from the Monastery of Sant Pau del Camp, an important Romanesque structure that at the time was outside of the city walls in a flat area surrounded by farm land (the rural location gave the monastery its name).
There are no accurate information about the monastery's origins, but was supposedly founded in the late ninth century. This date was set for the tombstone found...
Monastery of Sant Pau del Camp
Inside Barcelona there are few examples of the Romanesque Art.
The Church of Sant Pau del Camp (Saint Paul of the field) together with a small cloister, in the Raval Neighborhood, are the only buildings that remain from the Monastery of Sant Pau del Camp, an important Romanesque structure that at the time was outside of the city walls in a flat area surrounded by farm land (the rural location gave the monastery its name).
There are no accurate information about the monastery's origins, but was supposedly founded in the late ninth century. This date was set for the tombstone found...
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The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul) has become the most significant civil architecture in Catalan modernisme. Build between 1901 and 1930 in the neighborhood of El Guinardó, Barcelona, is a hospitalary complex designed by Catalan modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, actually a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
It is a highly complex hospital that dates back six centuries, founded in 1401, when six small hospitals merged into a big Medieval Complex called Hospital de la Santa Creu build in the Raval...
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul) has become the most significant civil architecture in Catalan modernisme. Build between 1901 and 1930 in the neighborhood of El Guinardó, Barcelona, is a hospitalary complex designed by Catalan modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, actually a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
It is a highly complex hospital that dates back six centuries, founded in 1401, when six small hospitals merged into a big Medieval Complex called Hospital de la Santa Creu build in the Raval...
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The Barcelona Aquarium (L’Aquàrium) is located in the Moll d'Espanya, pier in the Port Vell, next to the Maremagnum, shopping and leisure center. L’Aquàrium de Barcelona is the most important marine leisure in the world on the subject of the Mediterranean See. A series of 35 tanks, 11,000 animals and 450 different species, turn this centre into a unique reference leisure show with an underwater transparent tunnel 80 meters long that crosses under an immense Oceanarium, the only one in Europe, which allows visitors to go through it as if they were walking...
Barcelona Aquarium
The Barcelona Aquarium (L’Aquàrium) is located in the Moll d'Espanya, pier in the Port Vell, next to the Maremagnum, shopping and leisure center. L’Aquàrium de Barcelona is the most important marine leisure in the world on the subject of the Mediterranean See. A series of 35 tanks, 11,000 animals and 450 different species, turn this centre into a unique reference leisure show with an underwater transparent tunnel 80 meters long that crosses under an immense Oceanarium, the only one in Europe, which allows visitors to go through it as if they were walking...
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One of the interesting sites to visit in the Montjuic Mountain which attracts large numbers of visitors, including both local and foreigners, is the Font Magica at the end of Reina Maria Cristina Avenue.
For the Great Universal Exhibition of 1929 the engineer Carles Buigas designed and ambitious project of fountains, cascades, ponds, jets that went from the Palau Nacional, up on the Montjuic mountain up to Plaza España, ending with a bright row of columns on either side of the Reina Maria Cristina Avenue (now replaced by illuminated jet fountains of similar proportions). At the...
Font Magica de Montjuic
One of the interesting sites to visit in the Montjuic Mountain which attracts large numbers of visitors, including both local and foreigners, is the Font Magica at the end of Reina Maria Cristina Avenue.
For the Great Universal Exhibition of 1929 the engineer Carles Buigas designed and ambitious project of fountains, cascades, ponds, jets that went from the Palau Nacional, up on the Montjuic mountain up to Plaza España, ending with a bright row of columns on either side of the Reina Maria Cristina Avenue (now replaced by illuminated jet fountains of similar proportions). At the...
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Eixample Dret - Passeig de Gracia Avenue.
The Casa Batllo (Batllo House) is a rework done by the architect Antoni Gaudí, over a previously existing private building on the site, designed by architect Emili Sala Cortes.The wealthy industrial Josep Batlló i Casanovas commissioned the work Gaudi for the refurbishment, focused mainly on the re-design of thefacade, the main floor, the interior patios and the roof, and also adding a fifth floor for the service personnel. The facade was covered with sandstone from The Montjuich Mountain and ceramic pieces of different colours in curved...
Casa Batllo - Antonio Gaudi
Eixample Dret - Passeig de Gracia Avenue.
The Casa Batllo (Batllo House) is a rework done by the architect Antoni Gaudí, over a previously existing private building on the site, designed by architect Emili Sala Cortes.The wealthy industrial Josep Batlló i Casanovas commissioned the work Gaudi for the refurbishment, focused mainly on the re-design of thefacade, the main floor, the interior patios and the roof, and also adding a fifth floor for the service personnel. The facade was covered with sandstone from The Montjuich Mountain and ceramic pieces of different colours in curved...
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La Ribera/Borne - Gothic Neighbourhood
The church of Santa María del Mar is the best and most beautiful example of what it is called the Catalan Gothic and the only great perfectly finished Catalan gothic church, built only in 50 years between 1329 and 1383. The architects in charge were Berenguer de Montagut (designer of the building) and Ramon Despuig.
The outside of the building presents a heavy and austere aspect completely different from gothic style of other parts of Europe with predominance of the horizontal lines and the big sections of wall without great openings or decorations....
Santa Maria del Mar
La Ribera/Borne - Gothic Neighbourhood
The church of Santa María del Mar is the best and most beautiful example of what it is called the Catalan Gothic and the only great perfectly finished Catalan gothic church, built only in 50 years between 1329 and 1383. The architects in charge were Berenguer de Montagut (designer of the building) and Ramon Despuig.
The outside of the building presents a heavy and austere aspect completely different from gothic style of other parts of Europe with predominance of the horizontal lines and the big sections of wall without great openings or decorations....
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Eixample Dret
Residential building, known as "La Pedrera" or "Stone Quarry", the Casa Milà was designed by Antoni Gaudi and build in between 1906 and 1910 for the rich Milá family.
It is one of Gaudi’s essential residential buildings and in which his work is more elaborated not only in the magnificent sculptural façade of curved stone with the forged iron balconies, or the roof top with the incredible chimneys with forms of soldiers, or the attic with the brick vaults he had already used in the building s of the School of Santa Teresa and the...
La Pedrera - Casa Mila - Antonio Gaudi
Eixample Dret
Residential building, known as "La Pedrera" or "Stone Quarry", the Casa Milà was designed by Antoni Gaudi and build in between 1906 and 1910 for the rich Milá family.
It is one of Gaudi’s essential residential buildings and in which his work is more elaborated not only in the magnificent sculptural façade of curved stone with the forged iron balconies, or the roof top with the incredible chimneys with forms of soldiers, or the attic with the brick vaults he had already used in the building s of the School of Santa Teresa and the...
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Sants Montjuïc - Parc de Montjuïc
The Barcelona Pavilion was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as the German National Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. Surprisingly modern for the time, built with permanent materials as steel, glass, travertine and different kinds of marble, the Pavilion was conceived for the official reception of the German authorities to King Alfonso XIII of Spain, was disassembled in 1930 after the closure of the exhibition. The reconstruction work began in 1983 on its original site, and was finished in 1986.
The Pavilion is considered...
The Barcelona Pavilion - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Sants Montjuïc - Parc de Montjuïc
The Barcelona Pavilion was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as the German National Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. Surprisingly modern for the time, built with permanent materials as steel, glass, travertine and different kinds of marble, the Pavilion was conceived for the official reception of the German authorities to King Alfonso XIII of Spain, was disassembled in 1930 after the closure of the exhibition. The reconstruction work began in 1983 on its original site, and was finished in 1986.
The Pavilion is considered...
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Gothic Neighbourhood
Of all the streets of Barcelona, with no doubt, the most popular one is the Ramblas (Les Rambles in Catalan or Las Ramblas in Spanish).
Going down from Plaça Catalunya (nerve centre of the city) to Columbus Monument at the Port Vell (Old Port) and with the addition in the 90s of the wooden walkway into the Harbour to connect with the Maremagnum (a Mall with the Barcelona Aquarium and the Imax theatre closed by in the middle of the old port) or up from the Port Vell to Plaça Catalunya this long stroll with different names (Rambla de Canaletes, Rambla dels...
Las Ramblas
Gothic Neighbourhood
Of all the streets of Barcelona, with no doubt, the most popular one is the Ramblas (Les Rambles in Catalan or Las Ramblas in Spanish).
Going down from Plaça Catalunya (nerve centre of the city) to Columbus Monument at the Port Vell (Old Port) and with the addition in the 90s of the wooden walkway into the Harbour to connect with the Maremagnum (a Mall with the Barcelona Aquarium and the Imax theatre closed by in the middle of the old port) or up from the Port Vell to Plaça Catalunya this long stroll with different names (Rambla de Canaletes, Rambla dels...
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Sant Pere, Sta. Caterina i La Ribera - Gothic Neighbourhood
The Palau de la Música Catalana (The Catalan Music Palace) is a masterpiece of the Catalan Modernisme period. The concert hall designed by the architect Lluis Domenech I Montaner, and build in between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society, leading force in the Catalan cultural and political independence movement known as Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth).
The architectural decoration in the concert hall is a work of art of creativity and imagination. The rich decoration of the façade of...
Palau de la Musica Catalana
Sant Pere, Sta. Caterina i La Ribera - Gothic Neighbourhood
The Palau de la Música Catalana (The Catalan Music Palace) is a masterpiece of the Catalan Modernisme period. The concert hall designed by the architect Lluis Domenech I Montaner, and build in between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society, leading force in the Catalan cultural and political independence movement known as Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth).
The architectural decoration in the concert hall is a work of art of creativity and imagination. The rich decoration of the façade of...
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El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
One of the coolest squares in the Old town (Gothic Neighbourhood) of Barcelona, and maybe the quiet’s place in town, is the Plaza (Plaça) Sant Felip Neri. This hidden square that you can only access through two narrow, winding and sometimes not very clean streets is build over what was an old medieval cemetery (Montjuïc del Bisbe cemetery). On one of the sides The Baroque Church that gives the name to the square was build in between 1748 and 1752 and on the others different medieval houses moved there at the beginning of last century due...
Plaza Sant Felip Neri
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
One of the coolest squares in the Old town (Gothic Neighbourhood) of Barcelona, and maybe the quiet’s place in town, is the Plaza (Plaça) Sant Felip Neri. This hidden square that you can only access through two narrow, winding and sometimes not very clean streets is build over what was an old medieval cemetery (Montjuïc del Bisbe cemetery). On one of the sides The Baroque Church that gives the name to the square was build in between 1748 and 1752 and on the others different medieval houses moved there at the beginning of last century due...
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El Raval - Gothic Neighbourhood
It looks like time has stopped in this Archaeological Gothic Complex, one of Europe's earliest medical complexes, build up to put together in one building six hospitals that existed at the time. The first stone was laid by King Martí el Humà in 1401 and mainly developed in between the XV and XVI centuries. It was planned by the architect Guillem Abiell as a big space in a form of four wings on two levels that surrounded an arched patio, following a well-known model from the orient, but it has suffered some important changes through the following...
Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu
El Raval - Gothic Neighbourhood
It looks like time has stopped in this Archaeological Gothic Complex, one of Europe's earliest medical complexes, build up to put together in one building six hospitals that existed at the time. The first stone was laid by King Martí el Humà in 1401 and mainly developed in between the XV and XVI centuries. It was planned by the architect Guillem Abiell as a big space in a form of four wings on two levels that surrounded an arched patio, following a well-known model from the orient, but it has suffered some important changes through the following...
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El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
Located just a small arcaded passageway away from the Ramblas there is the Plaça Reial (Plaza Real). Designed by the architect Francesc Daniel Molina and build in 1848 over what had been and old religious convent from the Capuchinos (Caputxins). This beautiful place has a square plant, and is quite ample and delimited by the walls of one single building (it is like an interior patio). The facades of this building are made up of numerous balconies, and have like tile roof terraces.
It is an important and lively meeting place especially at night,...
Plaza Real in Barcelona
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
Located just a small arcaded passageway away from the Ramblas there is the Plaça Reial (Plaza Real). Designed by the architect Francesc Daniel Molina and build in 1848 over what had been and old religious convent from the Capuchinos (Caputxins). This beautiful place has a square plant, and is quite ample and delimited by the walls of one single building (it is like an interior patio). The facades of this building are made up of numerous balconies, and have like tile roof terraces.
It is an important and lively meeting place especially at night,...
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El Carmel - Gracia Neighbourhood
The park was originally planned by Gaudi as a new development for more than 60 luxury single-family residences in an aristocratic city-garden, with the intention to exploit the fresh air (well away from smoky factories) and the beautiful views, and did count with the support of Count Eusebi de Güell. The idea was taken from the English garden city movement. The site was a rocky hill with little vegetation and few trees, called Muntanya Pelada (Bare Mountain). The basic structures for the infrastructure of the future city, the exterior wall, the entrance...
Park Güell in Barcelona
El Carmel - Gracia Neighbourhood
The park was originally planned by Gaudi as a new development for more than 60 luxury single-family residences in an aristocratic city-garden, with the intention to exploit the fresh air (well away from smoky factories) and the beautiful views, and did count with the support of Count Eusebi de Güell. The idea was taken from the English garden city movement. The site was a rocky hill with little vegetation and few trees, called Muntanya Pelada (Bare Mountain). The basic structures for the infrastructure of the future city, the exterior wall, the entrance...
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El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
The way to the Frederic Mares Museum from the small square (Plaça Sant Iu Nº 5-6) on the street Comtes de Barcelona, at the side of the Cathedral, gives free entrance to a courtyard that was in medieval times the old orchard of the Main Royal Palace (Palau Reial Major), house of the Counts of Barcelona and from where the monarchs of the Catalan-Aragonese crown ruled the kingdom during the medieval period.
The place with orange trees, plants, some benches and a fountain on the centre surrounded by the medieval buildings from the Palau Reial...
Verger Antic Palau Reial Major
El Barri Gotic - Gothic Neighbourhood
The way to the Frederic Mares Museum from the small square (Plaça Sant Iu Nº 5-6) on the street Comtes de Barcelona, at the side of the Cathedral, gives free entrance to a courtyard that was in medieval times the old orchard of the Main Royal Palace (Palau Reial Major), house of the Counts of Barcelona and from where the monarchs of the Catalan-Aragonese crown ruled the kingdom during the medieval period.
The place with orange trees, plants, some benches and a fountain on the centre surrounded by the medieval buildings from the Palau Reial...
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Parc de la Ciutadella - Gothic Neighbourhood
The Parc de la Ciutadella was build over the old Citadel or Fortress that the Spanish King Felipe V had built in 1714 to intimidate Catalans against repeating early 18th century rebellion against the Spanish central government. In the middle of the 19th Century the political situation had changed and the Park started to be developed. Josep Fontseré was the Architect in charge of the project but everything changed when the City Hall decided to organize the Universal Exhibition for 1888.
The Umbracle (shade house) was build in 1883 and during...
Umbracle
Parc de la Ciutadella - Gothic Neighbourhood
The Parc de la Ciutadella was build over the old Citadel or Fortress that the Spanish King Felipe V had built in 1714 to intimidate Catalans against repeating early 18th century rebellion against the Spanish central government. In the middle of the 19th Century the political situation had changed and the Park started to be developed. Josep Fontseré was the Architect in charge of the project but everything changed when the City Hall decided to organize the Universal Exhibition for 1888.
The Umbracle (shade house) was build in 1883 and during...
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Sagrada Familia - Eixample
It is difficult to add something new to the many things said about this work in progress unfinished Temple. More than 125 years from the day that the foundation stone was placed by the Bishop Urquinaona, the initial project much more traditional, the Gaudi new design much more revolutionary, the dead of Gaudi, the Civil War and the fire in the workshop that destroyed many of the original models, the reconstruction of the burn crypt and models, the different political situations in Spain and in Catalunya through the years, the new architects and Sculptors selected...
Temple de la Sagrada Familia - Holy Family Temple
Sagrada Familia - Eixample
It is difficult to add something new to the many things said about this work in progress unfinished Temple. More than 125 years from the day that the foundation stone was placed by the Bishop Urquinaona, the initial project much more traditional, the Gaudi new design much more revolutionary, the dead of Gaudi, the Civil War and the fire in the workshop that destroyed many of the original models, the reconstruction of the burn crypt and models, the different political situations in Spain and in Catalunya through the years, the new architects and Sculptors selected...
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The Montcada Street in the Borne Area is full with all kind of palaces and small palaces, homes of wealthy nobles and merchants from the medieval period. Many of these Palaces are used now as Museums, Art Galleries or Bars. The Picasso Museum now occupies five of these palaces. The stories of many of these building starts on the XIII century and continues, with many additions and transformations in the following centuries till nowadays.
One of these Palaces, the Palau del Marquès de Llió, has now been tranformed again and is now used temporarily as part of the Disseny...
DHUB Montcada
The Montcada Street in the Borne Area is full with all kind of palaces and small palaces, homes of wealthy nobles and merchants from the medieval period. Many of these Palaces are used now as Museums, Art Galleries or Bars. The Picasso Museum now occupies five of these palaces. The stories of many of these building starts on the XIII century and continues, with many additions and transformations in the following centuries till nowadays.
One of these Palaces, the Palau del Marquès de Llió, has now been tranformed again and is now used temporarily as part of the Disseny...
