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In About Barcelona we have information of things that are happening in the city, events, fairs, congresses, or popular events that will take place together with Festivals and Concerts, Sporting Events and Art Exhibitions. Also information on interesting places to vist and what we like to call our favourite places, museums and outdoor sculptures. And if you are interested, we can provide your Barcelona Accommodation for your stay during the events, congresses or Festivals you are willing to participate.
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Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
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...
Art and Culture > Art Exhibitions
La Pedrera, Fundacion Caixa Catalunya. October 08 to January 09.
Aleksandr Mijáilovich Ródchenko (Saint Petersburg, 1891-Moscow, 1956) was one of the key figures of the Russian avant-garde movement of the 20th century and one of its most multi-talented artists.
The construction of the future, a large exhibition devoted to the workforce of Rodchenko, offers a comprehensive look at the career of this multifaceted Russian artist, bringing together about 250 works representing strands that Rodchenko practiced throughout his life: painting, design (graphic, interior, textile,...
Rodchenko, The Construction of the Future
La Pedrera, Fundacion Caixa Catalunya. October 08 to January 09.
Aleksandr Mijáilovich Ródchenko (Saint Petersburg, 1891-Moscow, 1956) was one of the key figures of the Russian avant-garde movement of the 20th century and one of its most multi-talented artists.
The construction of the future, a large exhibition devoted to the workforce of Rodchenko, offers a comprehensive look at the career of this multifaceted Russian artist, bringing together about 250 works representing strands that Rodchenko practiced throughout his life: painting, design (graphic, interior, textile,...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
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...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
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...
Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
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...
Art and Culture > Art Exhibitions
Space La Pedrera - June September 2007
Nicolas de Staël, was born in Saint Petersburg in 1914 in one old aristocratic family next to the czar. The Russian revolution of 1917 forces the family to the exile in Poland where their parents died. He was then taken care by a resident Russian couple in Brussels where he initiates his learning in the Royal Academy of Arts and where he discovers from Rembrandt to Vermeer.
It was in 1943 when he arrives to Paris and meets Caesar Domela, another great abstract painter. It was a very difficult period, in which her companion Jeanine died because of...
Nicolas de Stael
Space La Pedrera - June September 2007
Nicolas de Staël, was born in Saint Petersburg in 1914 in one old aristocratic family next to the czar. The Russian revolution of 1917 forces the family to the exile in Poland where their parents died. He was then taken care by a resident Russian couple in Brussels where he initiates his learning in the Royal Academy of Arts and where he discovers from Rembrandt to Vermeer.
It was in 1943 when he arrives to Paris and meets Caesar Domela, another great abstract painter. It was a very difficult period, in which her companion Jeanine died because of...
Art and Culture > Art Exhibitions
Fundacio Caixa Catalunya – La Pedrera - February to May 2007
This exhibition, which includes paintings, drawings and prints, as well as sound recordings, films and graphic and documentary material, reveals the key role that music played at the heart of ideological and stylistic conflicts fuelled by the Third Reich.
To complete and understand better the exhibition there is a cycle of screenings related to the exhibition and a Cycle of conferences about "Language and Extermination". From February 27th to May 27th 2007.
Exhibition Space. La Pedrera. Passeig de Gràcia,...
Music and the Third Reich. From Bayreuth to Terezín
Fundacio Caixa Catalunya – La Pedrera - February to May 2007
This exhibition, which includes paintings, drawings and prints, as well as sound recordings, films and graphic and documentary material, reveals the key role that music played at the heart of ideological and stylistic conflicts fuelled by the Third Reich.
To complete and understand better the exhibition there is a cycle of screenings related to the exhibition and a Cycle of conferences about "Language and Extermination". From February 27th to May 27th 2007.
Exhibition Space. La Pedrera. Passeig de Gràcia,...
Art and Culture > Art Exhibitions
Fundacio Caixa Catalunya – La Pedrera - December 06 to March 07
Great Masters of European Painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork. For the first time in Barcelona it is possible to see about forty works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which, in a visit that begins in the seventeenth century and comes to a close at the end of the nineteenth, looks at the main artistic periods in the history of the European art of those centuries. Outstanding, among others, are names so important in universal art, like El Greco, who opens this visit, Van Dyck,...
From El Greco to Cézanne
Fundacio Caixa Catalunya – La Pedrera - December 06 to March 07
Great Masters of European Painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork. For the first time in Barcelona it is possible to see about forty works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which, in a visit that begins in the seventeenth century and comes to a close at the end of the nineteenth, looks at the main artistic periods in the history of the European art of those centuries. Outstanding, among others, are names so important in universal art, like El Greco, who opens this visit, Van Dyck,...
