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Gaudí dedicated 40 years of his life to his best-known work, which remains unfinished. He gave it great symbolic power by claiming that it was an atonement for the world's materialism and an expression of human solidarity and fraternity. When he died..

More commonly known as "La Pedrera", this building, with its façade evoking the movement of the sea and its fantasy decor, is one of Gaudí's finest achievements. A tour of the roof provides wonderful views of the entire Eixample distric..

The Roman and Visigothic town was discovered beneath the Clariana-Padellàs house and the Plaça del Rei. An extraordinary underground walk leads to the Palau Reial Major and the 14C Capella de Santa Águeda , housing the magnificent altarpiece of t..

The Raval is the “creative heart” of Barcelona. This formerly ill-reputed old Chinese quarter has changed enormously with a great deal of regeneration work carried out. Initiated in 1995 with the opening of Barcelona’s Contemporary Art Museum, the re..

Housed in a fine building designed by Josep Lluís Sert (1902-83), the Joan Miró Foundation contains over 10 000 works by the artist, who is one of the great names of the 20C avant-garde movement in Europe. The remarkable Barcelona Series, comprising ..

This museum contains ten centuries of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to the modern day. Housing the art museum, department of drawings and prints, museum of modern art, the numismatic cabinet of Catalonia and an art history library, it is now..

This magic place half-way between reality and fantasy, looks onto two quite unique mushroom-shaped buildings straight out of the fairy tale book. A stairway headed by a dragon made up of ingenious mosaics leads to the Hall of a hundred columns On t..

The new marina , the work of engineer JR de Clascà, has become one of the town's busiest and most popular leisure venues and boasts countless bars, restaurants and terraces. The view from the top of the striking Hotel Arts and Torre Mapfre (153m) is..

This huge Neo-Gothic style building built of iron and red brick was built by Domènech i Montaner in 1887; and was a restaurant at the World Fair of 1888, is located on Avenue des Tells, a long promenade bordered by trees and flower beds, and is home ..

Built by Domènech i Montaner between 1905 and 1908, it is undoubtedly the most striking symbol of the Catalan middle classes in the 1900s and one of the masterpieces of Modernism. Headquarters of the Orfeó Català (Catalan Choir), it is the largest ..

The busiest street in the El Born district is a perfect illustration of the wealth of the merchant families who once lived here. In the 13C and 14C, Barcelona’s fleet dominated Mediterranean commercial traffic between the Balearics, Sicily and Ital..

Built in the 14C with unusual speed for a building of such large proportions, this marvellous church was the result of a popular initiative, and soon became the spiritual centre of the district. Its three façades are highly representative of Catalan ..

Born out of a need to extend and modernise Barcelona, the Eixample district was the shop window for the city’s bourgeoisie in the 19C and early 20C and was a mirror for its economic and cultural growth during this period. The 1850s saw the emergence ..

This square is the setting for numerous cultural activities (concerts, plays etc) and is the heart of the Gothic quarter. Here you can view some of the city’s most important medieval buildings: the façade of the Palau Reial Major , to the right the ..

This block of houses includes works by three of the most important modernist architects, Gaudí , Puig i Cadafalch and Domènech i Montaner who are respectively credited with the Casa Batlló , the Casa Amatller and the Casa Lleó i Morera . Besi..

Although it used to link the old town to the village of Gràcia, it is now, along with Eixample the residential area of the upper class. It links beautiful buildings epitomising early 20C architecture, such as those by Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner and P..

This masterful work by Gaudí is part of the famous "Apple of Discord" and was built between 1904 and 1906 in pure Modernist style, with ceramic coloured glass disks and a fishscale roof. At the time, the unique enlarged windows on the first..

During your visit to the cathedral don't miss the chance to go up on the roof. A lift located in one of the chapels of the ambulatory will take you up to the metallic bridges dominated by the imposing silhouettes of the cathedral's towers and cupola...

The Barri Gòtic extends from the southeast corner of Plaça de Catalunya to the sea. Hemmed in between the Ramblas and Via Laietana, this maze of narrow streets lined by old buildings remains one of Barcelona’s liveliest districts. It owes its name to..

Created by Tàpies in 1984, this foundation is housed in a beautiful Modernist building by Domènech i Montaner, with a façade crowned by the famous Cloud and Chair sculpture. The museum contains the most complete collection of paintings by the artis..