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Art and Culture > Barcelona Highlights
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...
City Info > Tours
The Modernisme (Catalan for modernism) was a Catalan Art movement at the turn of the 20th century, equivalent to other art movements in Europe like the Art Nouveau, the Jugendstil or the Stile Liberty, that was centered specially in Barcelona with the work of architect Antoni Gaudí as the most known. The Modernisme was a cultural movement led by anti-traditionalist intellectuals who attempted to update Catalan arts and ideas so as to uplift Catalan culture to a par with other European cultures. Such renewal included a distinctive style of Art Nouveau, and was clearly influenced by the...
Modernisme Walking Tour
The Modernisme (Catalan for modernism) was a Catalan Art movement at the turn of the 20th century, equivalent to other art movements in Europe like the Art Nouveau, the Jugendstil or the Stile Liberty, that was centered specially in Barcelona with the work of architect Antoni Gaudí as the most known. The Modernisme was a cultural movement led by anti-traditionalist intellectuals who attempted to update Catalan arts and ideas so as to uplift Catalan culture to a par with other European cultures. Such renewal included a distinctive style of Art Nouveau, and was clearly influenced by the...
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 > 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...
