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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Barcelona, Spain! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Barcelona. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in BarcelonaActivities in Barcelona1. The Dragon
The Dragon is an iron sculpture located in the Parc de l'Espanya Industrial, in front of the Plaça dels Països Catalans, in the Sants district of Barcelona. The work of the San Sebastian sculptor Andrés Nagel, it was inaugurated on Sant Jordi's Day in 1987. It represents the figure of a dragon coming out of the lake. Made of corten steel, it weighs 150 tons, and is 12 meters high by 38 meters long. What represents the tail of the animal is an 18-meter-long slide, where young and old play. The sculpture has 3 other slides and a maze that joins them.
2. Casa Lleó Morera
The Casa Lleó Morera is a building designed by noted modernisme architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, located at Passeig de Gràcia 35 in the Eixample district of Barcelona. In 1902 Francesca Morera assigned Lluís Domènech i Montaner to remodel ancient "casa Rocamora", built in 1864. She died in 1904, and the building was named after her son, Albert Lleó i Morera. The building is located on the corner of Carrer del Consell de Cent, and is one of the three important buildings of Barcelona's Illa de la Discòrdia, and it is the only building of the block awarded Barcelona's town council's Arts Building Annual Award, obtained in 1906. The building lost some of its most representative elements, such as the tempietto on its top and the ground floor and mezzanine's architectural sculpture. The building is also known as the residence of Cuban-Catalan photographer Pau Audouard.
3. La Rambla
La Rambla is considered the most well known street in central Barcelona. A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 kilometres connecting the Plaça de Catalunya in its center with the Christopher Columbus Monument at Port Vell. La Rambla forms the boundary between the neighbourhoods of the Barri Gòtic to the east and the El Raval to the west.
4. Triumphal Arch
The Arc de Triomf is a memorial arch in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was built by architect Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas as the main access gate for the 1888 Barcelona World Fair. The arch crosses over the wide central promenade of the Passeig de Lluís Companys, leading to the Ciutadella Park that now occupies the site of the world fair. It is located at the northern end of the promenade, facing the Passeig de Sant Joan.
5. Picasso Museum
The Museu Picasso is an art museum in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It houses an extensive collection of artworks by the twentieth-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, with a total of 4251 of his works. It is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces on Montcada Street in the La Ribera neighborhood in the Old City of Barcelona. It opened to the public on 9 March 1963, becoming the first museum dedicated to Picasso's work and the only one created during his lifetime. It has since been declared a museum of national interest by the Government of Catalonia.
6. Castle of the Three Dragons
The Castle of the Three Dragons, is the popular name given to the modernisme building built between 1887 and 1888 as a Café-Restaurant for the 1888 Universal Exposition of Barcelona by Lluís Domènech i Montaner. This name was probably adopted from the 1865 play by Serafí Pitarra.
7. Coliseum
Coliseum or Cinema Coliseum is a theatre and cinema in Barcelona, located on 595–599 Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, in the intersection with Rambla de Catalunya. It opened in 1923 and remains one of the biggest film theatres in the city as well of an iconic building of 1920s monumental architecture. The venue currently holds 1,700 people.
8. Palau de la Virreina
The Virreina Palace is a building in the city of Barcelona. Situated on the famous La Rambla avenue, today it houses the headquarters of the City Council's Culture Institute, the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) and hosts various temporary art exhibitions and cultural events.
9. Roman Wall
The Roman Wall of Barcelona is a work declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest. From Plaça Nova, it went along Avinguda de la Catedral, Carrer de la Tapineria and Carrer del Sotstinent Navarro, Plaça dels Traginers, and Carrer del Correo Vell, Carrer Regomir, Carrer Avinyó, Carrer Banys Nous, and Carrer de la Palla.
10. Spotify Camp Nou
Camp Nou is a stadium in Barcelona and the home of La Liga club Barcelona since its opening in 1957.It is currently undergoing renovation, and with a planned increased seating capacity of 105,000, it will be the stadium with the largest capacity in Spain and Europe, and the second largest football stadium in the world.
11. Memorial Durruti, Ascaso, Ferrer i Guardia
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT and the FAI in the periods before and during the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. Durruti played an influential role during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 and is remembered as a hero in and by the anarchist movement.
12. National Art Museum of Catalonia
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, abbreviated as MNAC, is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Situated on Montjuïc hill at the end of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, near Pl Espanya, the museum is especially notable for its outstanding collection of romanesque church paintings, and for Catalan art and design from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including modernisme and noucentisme. The museum is housed in the Palau Nacional, a huge, Italian-style building dating to 1929. The Palau Nacional, which has housed the Museu d'Art de Catalunya since 1934, was declared a national museum in 1990 under the Museums Law passed by the Catalan Government. That same year, a thorough renovation process was launched to refurbish the site, based on plans drawn up by the architects Gae Aulenti and Enric Steegmann, who were later joined in the undertaking by Josep Benedito. The Oval Hall was reopened for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, and the various collections were installed and opened over the period from 1995 to 2004. The museum was officially inaugurated on 16 December 2004. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.
13. Barcelona Pavilion
The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, was the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain. This building was used for the official opening of the German section of the exhibition. It is an important building in the history of modern architecture, known for its simple form and its spectacular use of extravagant materials, such as marble, red onyx and travertine. Furnishings specifically designed for the building, including the Barcelona chair, are still in production. It has inspired many important modernist buildings. The original structure was demolished in 1930, and the existing reconstruction was completed in 1986.
14. El Molino
El Molino is a café-concert in Barcelona, one of the most renowned in Europe during much of the twentieth and nineteenth centuries, and has always been considered a space that transgressed the permitted limits, with a great capacity to create its own languages, with a double meaning, with the motive of being able to escape the censorship of each era. With its characteristic red mill blades on the façade, it was the most famous of the theatres on the Paral·lel, an avenue that came to be baptised as "the street of the theatre of Europe", due to the large concentration of scenic spaces it had.
15. Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar
Santa Maria del Mar is a church in the Ribera district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, built between 1329 and 1383 at the height of Principality of Catalonia's maritime and mercantile preeminence. It is an outstanding example of Catalan Gothic, with a purity and unity of style that is very unusual in large medieval buildings.
16. Casa Vicens
Casa Vicens is a modernist building situated in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona. It is the work of architect Antoni Gaudí and is considered to be his first major project. It was built between 1883 and 1885, although Gaudí drew up the initial plans between 1878 and 1880. The work belongs to the orientalist style, similar to Neo-Mudéjar architecture, although interpreted in Gaudí’s own personal way, with a uniqueness that only he knew how to add to his projects. In this work, and for the first time, Gaudí outlined some of his constructive resources that would become regular features throughout the emergence of Modernisme. The work was widely discussed when it was built and caused a great sensation among the general public at the time. When the building was constructed, Gràcia was still an independent urban nucleus of Barcelona; it had its own council and was classified as a town, though nowadays it is a district of the city.
17. Columbus Monument
The Columbus Monument is a 60 m (197 ft) tall monument to Christopher Columbus at the lower end of La Rambla, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was constructed for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888) in honor of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. The monument serves as a reminder that Christopher Columbus reported to Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand V in Barcelona after his first trip to the new continent.
18. Museu Egipci
The Egyptian Museum of Barcelona, located at Carrer de València, 284, belongs to the Clos Archaeological Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded in 1992 by the businessman Jordi Clos i Llombart. Its objective is the promotion and dissemination of art in general and archaeology, especially of ancient Egypt.
19. Teatre Tívoli
The Tívoli Theater is a Barcelona show room dedicated to theater and cinema, in Casp Street, no. 8. Some important works of the genre, as well as in Catalan theater. The building is a work protected as a cultural asset of local interest.
20. Pati Manning
The Casa de la Caritat is a group of buildings in the Raval district of Barcelona, listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. It currently houses a cultural complex made up of several institutions, such as the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, in the Pati de les Dones, and the Centre for Cultural Studies and Resources (CERC) of the Barcelona Provincial Council, in the Pati Manning, and the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and International Relations of the Ramon Llull University.
21. Poble Espanyol
The Poble Espanyol is an open-air architectural museum in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, approximately 400 metres away from the Fountains of Montjuïc. Built for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, the museum consists of 117 full-scale buildings replicated from different places in the Iberian Peninsula, joined forming a small town recreating urban atmospheres of disparate places in Spain. It also contains a theater, restaurants, artisan workshops and a museum of contemporary art.
22. Sant Agustí
The convent of Sant Agustí Nou was a group of buildings belonging to the Augustinian order, of which some remains still remain, such as the old library, now a hotel, and the church, listed as a cultural asset of local interest.
23. Baluard de Migdia i Muralla de Mar
The bastion of Migdia is one of the eleven bastions that the medieval and modern walls of Barcelona had until the whole of the city walls was demolished in the nineteenth century. The Baluard de Migdia was the scene of several episodes in the history of Barcelona, including the violent battles that took place on the eleventh of September 1714. The bastion was rediscovered in 2007, next to Estació de França and Barceloneta Station, and its current remains are part of the architectural and historical heritage of the city of Barcelona.
24. Sant Genís dels Agudells
The church of Sant Genís dels Agudells is a church in the neighbourhood of Sant Genís dels Agudells, in the district of Horta-Guinardó in Barcelona. It is one of the ten oldest parishes in Barcelona. It seems to have been founded in 931, but the current building is from 1571. In 1359 it became part of the monastery of Sant Jeroni de la Vall d'Hebron, but with the disappearance of the monastery it was attached to the parish of Sant Joan d'Horta (1867). The cemetery that still exists next to the church is remarkable, the only one that remains within the urban center of the city and is not owned by the municipality. Several illustrious figures are buried there, including Manuel Carrasco i Formiguera, a militant of the Democratic Union of Catalonia, who was shot in Burgos in 1938, until he was transferred to the Montjuïc cemetery in 2001.
25. Can Framis
Can Framis is the latest Fundació Vila Casas museum, an art center in Barcelona devoted to the promotion of contemporary Catalan painting. Located in the old Can Framis factory complex, the museum displays more than 250 paintings from the sixties to the present made by artists born or currently living in Catalonia. In addition to the permanent collection which is divided in three floors, Can Framis Museum has an area dedicated to temporary exhibitions named Espai Aø. The permanent collection is updated periodically, and two new temporary exhibitions are opened every three months.
26. Claustre de l'església de la Concepció
Santa Maria de Jonqueres was a monastery of nuns in the city of Barcelona that was in Carrer de Jonqueres from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, in which the church and cloister were moved stone by stone to Carrer d'Aragó and today it is part of the parish church of La Concepció in the Eixample district.
27. Museu de la Moto
The Barcelona Motorcycle Museum was a privately owned museum that was active between 2011 and 2017. Based at number 10 Carrer de la Palla in Barcelona, in the heart of the Gothic Quarter, it was dedicated to the exhibition of motorcycles from different periods, from donations or transfers from individuals and from the museum collection of the Bassella Motorcycle Museum.
Wikipedia: Museu de la Moto de Barcelona (CA), Website, Designation
28. Església de Sant Sever
The church of Sant Sever is located on the street of the same name in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, very close to the Cathedral, and is listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. Unlike most of Barcelona's churches, it was not destroyed during the Civil War, which is why the interior, an example of Catalan Baroque, has been so well preserved. Since 2002, it has been part of the chapter of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
29. Palau Macaya
The Palau Macaya is a modernist building at Passeig de Sant Joan, 108 in Barcelona, declared a national monument by the Ministry of Education and Science on January 9, 1976, along with other works by Puig i Cadafalch. In 1979 it became the first headquarters of the cultural centre of la Caixa, currently CaixaForum Macaya.
30. Parc de l'Espanya Industrial
The Espanya Industrial Park is located between the Sants and Hostafrancs districts of Barcelona, next to the Barcelona-Sants railway station. It retains some of the old facilities of the factory that gives it its name: the Casinet d'Hostafrancs civic centre, the Pau nursery school and the Casa del Mig, where municipal facilities are located.
31. Fossar de les Moreres
The Fossar de les Moreres is a memorial square in Barcelona, adjacent to the basilica of Santa Maria del Mar. The plaza was built over a cemetery where defenders of the city were buried following the Siege of Barcelona at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714. The plaza features a memorial to the fallen Catalans of the war, with a torch of eternal flame and a heroic poem by Frederic Soler, "El Fossar de les Moreres".
32. Museu de Cultures del Món
The Museum of World Cultures was a museum specialising in the history of various cultures from around the world that occupies the Palau Nadal, former headquarters of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Barcelona, as well as the Palau del Marquès de Llo, former headquarters of the Design Museum, at Carrer de Montcada, 12 and 14 in Barcelona. The cost of the adaptation works was 4,195,000 euros. and the project was commissioned to the architects Tomàs Morató and Jaume Arderiu.
33. Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia
The Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia is a square in the Gràcia district of Barcelona and the administrative centre of the district of Gràcia. It is framed by the streets Matilde, Mariana Pineda, Penedès, Diluvi, Francisco Giner, Mozart, Goya and Sant Domènec. It is one of the busiest social centres in the Gràcia neighbourhood. It regained its popular name in 2009 after a public consultation, although it is also popularly known as Plaça del Campanar or Plaça del Rellotge. It is a space included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
34. Cascada del Parc de la Ciutadella
The Parc de la Ciutadella Waterfall, also known as the Great Waterfall or Monumental Waterfall, is an architectural and sculptural complex with fountains and water springs in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, listed as a cultural asset of local interest. It was built between 1875 and 1888 according to a general design by Josep Fontserè i Mestre, while the hydraulic project was the work of Antoni Gaudí, and Rossend Nobas, Venanci Vallmitjana, Eduard B. Alentorn, Francesc Pagès i Serratosa, Josep Gamot, Manuel Fuxà, Joan Flotats and Rafael Atché took part in its sculptural elements. It has been restored in 1956, 1972, 1989 and 2009.
35. Anselmo Lorenzo
Anselmo Lorenzo Asperilla was a defining figure in the early Spanish Anarchist movement, earning the often quoted sobriquet "the grandfather of Spanish anarchism," in the words of Murray Bookchin: "his contribution to the spread of Anarchist ideas in Barcelona and Andalusia over the decades was enormous".
36. Poliorama
The Poliorama Theater is a theater, former cinema, located on the ground floor of the building of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, at Rambla, 115. Opened in 1899 as a cinema, it later alternated its use with theatrical performances. It has been operating since 1976 as a theatre. Between 1937 and 1939 it was called the Teatre Català de la Comèdia.
37. Museum of Funeral Carriages
The Collection of Funeral Carriages shows what the funeral ritual was like in Barcelona from the end of the eighteenth century to the fifties of the twentieth century. Through a set of 13 hearses, all of them original, 6 escort carriages and 3 motor hearses, the collection deals with the appearance of hearses, which were closely linked to the evolution of the history of Barcelona, their function, the different types that existed, all the ornaments that adorned them and the great prominence they had in the funeral ritual of the time. Different graphic examples of large burials of illustrious figures, such as Santiago Rusiñol, Enric Prat de la Riba and Enrique Tierno Galván, among others, accompany the exhibition of hearses.
Wikipedia: Col·lecció de Carrosses Fúnebres (CA), Facebook, Twitter
38. A Lluís Companys
Conxita Julià i Farrés, also known as Conxita de Carrasco, was a Catalan woman noted for her dealings with Lluís Companys, President of Catalonia, in the 1930s, and for her poetry. Julià died in January 2019 at the age of 98.
39. Torre de comunicacions de Montjuïc
The Montjuïc Communications Tower, popularly known as Torre Calatrava and Torre Telefónica, is a telecommunication tower in the Montjuïc neighbourhood of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava, with construction taking place from 1989 to 1992. The white tower was built for Telefónica to transmit television coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. The 136-metre (446 ft) tower is located in the Olympic park and represents an athlete holding the Olympic Flame.
40. Font d'Hèrcules
The Fountain of Hercules, also known as the Gaudí Fountain, is located in the gardens of the Royal Palace of Pedralbes in Barcelona. It was built in 1884 according to a design by the architect Antoni Gaudí. It is listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL).
41. Parròquia de Sant Andreu de Palomar
The church of Sant Andreu de Palomar is located in the Plaza d'Orfila in the district of the same name in Barcelona, and is listed as good with elements of interest. In 1991 he received the Creu de Sant Jordi, together with the Asylum House of Sant Andreu, created in 1866 and linked to the parish.
42. Centre Cívic Pati Llimona
The Palau Marc or Gualbes is a building in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona listed as a cultural asset of local interest. Since 1991, it has housed the facilities of the Pati Llimona Civic Centre, which has an exhibition hall, an archaeological space and several classrooms and rooms for workshops and conferences.
43. Jardins de Winston Churchill
The Winston Churchill Gardens is an urban park located at the lower corner of the intersection of Via Augusta, 257 and Ronda del General Mitre, 69-71, in the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, and, more specifically, in the Les Tres Torres neighbourhood of Barcelona (Barcelonès), very close to the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat (FGC) station of Les Tres Torres. The gardens were inaugurated on December 15, 2012. With a total area of 0.07 hectares and a triangular shape, it contains grass beds, sandy areas and hard pavement, complemented by wooden benches.
44. Sala Beckett
The Sala Beckett / Obrador Internacional de Dramaturgy is a theatre in the city of Barcelona that focuses its activity on contemporary dramaturgy and the dissemination of Catalan theatrical authorship. In addition to being an exhibition hall, it is also a space for theatrical creation, training and experimentation, and joins the network of nearly a dozen Creation Factories in Barcelona.
45. Homenatge als castellers
Homage to the castellers is a monument dedicated to the castellers by the Catalan sculptor Antoni Llena i Font. It is located in Plaça de Sant Miquel in Barcelona, in the Gothic Quarter, a square close to the Casa de la Ciutat, the seat of the Barcelona City Council, and Plaça de Sant Jaume, the place where human towers are traditionally built. It was made between 2010 and 2011 and was inaugurated on February 12, 2012 during the Santa Eulàlia Festival. It is the third human tower monument in Barcelona, along with the sculpture by Francesc Anglès and Garcia Pom de dalt (1995), located in the Traumatology and Rehabilitation Unit of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, and the Castellers de Sants monument (2011), located in Plaça de Bonet i Muixí, in the Sants district.
46. Monument to Francesc Macià
The Monument to Francesc Macià is a sculpture located at the southern end of Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona, in front of La Rambla, the work of Josep Maria Subirachs and inaugurated on 25 December 1991.
47. Museu de Cera
The Barcelona Wax Museum is a private museum in Barcelona that houses an important collection of more than two hundred wax figures of real and fictional characters and receives almost two hundred thousand visits per year. It is located in the former headquarters of Banca Crèdit i Docks, in Passatge de la Banca.
48. Joan Miró pavement mosaic
The Mosaic of the Pla de l'Os, also known as the Miró Pavement, is a 1976 work by Joan Miró that is located in the Pla de la Boqueria, on the Rambla de Barcelona, a natural path for those who come and go from the sea to the city. The work was inaugurated on December 30, 1976, and is included in the catalog Public Art of Barcelona. The mosaic was executed by Joan Gardy-Artigas, with the collaboration of the Escofet workshops, specialized in terrazzo pieces.
49. Palau Reial de Pedralbes
The Royal Palace of Pedralbes is a building placed in the middle of an ample garden in the district of Les Corts, in Barcelona. From 1919 until 1931 and since 1975 it has been the official residence for the Spanish royal family when they visit the city, although they currently prefer the Palace of Albéniz. It also houses the Ceramic Museum, the Textile and Clothing Museum and the Decorative Arts Museum, both part of the Disseny Hub Barcelona and is the permanent seat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).
50. Roman Sepulchral Via
The sepulchral road in the Plaza de la Vila in Madrid is a Roman necropolis of the first century in Barcelona, declared a cultural asset of national interest. Although the site is at a lower level than the street, the urbanization of the square allows it to be seen in its entirety. Their exceptionality lies in the fact that the tombs have been found in their original context, since of the vast majority of known Roman tombs only stone blocks reused in other works are preserved.
Wikipedia: Via sepulcral de la plaça de la Vila de Madrid (CA)
51. Canòdrom. Ateneu d'Innovació Digital i Democràtica
The Canòdrom de la Meridiana is a building located at Calle de Concepción Arenal, 165-185, on the corner of Riera d'Horta, 3-31, in the neighborhood of El Congrés i els Indians in Barcelona, listed as an asset with elements of interest.
52. Museu del Modernisme Català
The Museum of Catalan Modernism (MMCAT) – also known as the Museum of Modernism of Barcelona (MMBCN) – is a museum inaugurated in 2010 and dedicated entirely to Catalan modernism. It occupies the thousand square meters divided into two floors of a modernist building, from 1902 and 1904, by the architect Enric Sagnier, at Carrer de Balmes 48, in Barcelona, between the Provincial Council and the Consell de Cent. It shows 350 works, including paintings, sculptures, furniture and stained glass, by 42 artists representative of this artistic movement. The vast majority of the works come from the private collection of the Pinós-Guirao family, and many are unpublished. You can find pieces by Antoni Gaudí, Joaquim Mir, Hermen Anglada Camarasa, Ramon Casas and Santiago Rusiñol. It is the first Museum of Catalan Modernism open to the world.
53. Església de la Mare de Déu de Gràcia i de Sant Josep
The Church of the Virgin of Grace and Saint Joseph, popularly known as the Josepets de Gràcia, is the church of the former convent of the Discalced Carmelites of Santa Maria de Gràcia, located at the top of the modern Plaça de Lesseps in the district of Gràcia, in Barcelona, where it is the oldest building in the neighborhood. It is a work protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
54. Barcelona's Head
El Cap de Barcelona (1991–1992) is a surrealist sculpture created by American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Its English title is The Head of Barcelona.
55. Mina Grott
The Mina Grott is a tunnel, almost a kilometer and a half, located in the municipality of Barcelona, which connects the Vallvidrera reservoir with the lower part of the Vallvidrera district, near the lower station of the Vallvidrera funicular. The lower mouth - abandoned - is to the left of the tracks of the Vallvidrera Funicular, in the Vallvidrera shortcut, s/n of Barcelona, bordering on the left the Montserrat school, going up the stairs, at half a distance between The lower railway station and the "Water Road". It was built in 1855, to bring water from the reservoir to the old municipality of Sarrià, which served at least until 1927. In 1940 the Water Company of Sant Cugat del Vallès installed there A pipe to bring water from Barcelona to Sant Cugat. Later the water company of Sabadell also took advantage of the work. The name would be inspired by the Grotto of Death, in German Grotte, which appears in the opera Tristan und Isolde de Wagner, very fashionable at this time.
56. Palau Requesens
The Requesens Palace, also called the Countess of Palamós, is a building in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest. It is currently the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Good Letters and also houses the Gallery of Illustrious Catalans.
57. Teatre Nacional de Catalunya
Teatre Nacional de Catalunya is a public theatre located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was created by the Culture Department of the Catalan Government to normalize and enhance the theatre and dance in Catalan language and their creators.
58. Biblioteca Can Sumarro. Infantil
Can Sumarro is a sixteenth-century farmhouse located in the center of the urban center of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, listed as a Cultural Asset of National Interest since 1975, it is very close to other historic buildings such as Can Llunell, current headquarters of the city's History Museum, and the Casal de l'Harmonia.
59. Parc de les Corts
The Parc de les Corts is located in the Les Corts district of Barcelona. It has a total area of 0.71 hectares and is located between Numancia and Nicaragua streets. Admission to the park is completely free and is always open. It is surrounded by large blocks of buildings and stands out for the presence of a small artificial river that crosses it.
60. Sant Francesc de Sales
The church and convent of Les Saleses is a complex formed by the church and the old convent of the Saleses nuns of the Order of the Visitation, located on the Paseo de San Juan in Barcelona, between the streets of Valencia and Aragón. It was designed by Joan Martorell i Montells. Work on the convent began in 1877 and the church was built between 1882 and 1885, corresponding to the current parish of Sant Francesc de Sales. The old convent was converted in 1943 into a school of the Marist Brothers. It is a work protected as a cultural asset of local interest.
61. Ermita de Sant Cebrià
The Hermitage of Sant Cebrià i Santa Justina, also known as Sant Cebrià d'Horta, is a hermitage in the Montbau district of Barcelona. The hermitage is dedicated to the Christian martyrs of the third century, Saint Cyprian of Antioch and Saint Justina. The origins of the hermitage are not documented, but the form of construction suggests a pre-Romanesque period. It is a work protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
62. Refugi 307
Shelter 307 is one of the air-raid shelters for the civilian population built during the Spanish Civil War in the city of Barcelona, listed as an asset with elements of interest. It was excavated thanks to the work of many neighbors in the Poble Sec neighborhood, and is currently open to the public as part of the Barcelona History Museum.
63. Almeria Teatre
Golem'S, historically Almeria Teatre, is a theatre in Barcelona, located at number 64 Sant Lluís street, in the Gràcia district. It is a multipurpose space that has a stage, stalls and amphitheater with a capacity of 183 spectators. The venue was reopened on 18 December 2009 and recovered a disused cultural space, the theatre of the old Casa de Almería, founded in the Gràcia neighbourhood in 1960 and which, at the beginning of the seventies, became one of Barcelona's bingo halls.
64. Elogi de l'aigua
In Praise of Water is a 1987 sculpture by Eduardo Chillida located in the Parc de la Creueta del Coll in Barcelona. It is a solid piece of reinforced concrete from which four arms come out that are screwed suspended by four steel cables over a pond. It weighs 54 tons and measures 12 meters high by 7.2 meters long and 6.5 meters wide. The work is located in an old quarry, in one of the areas urbanized on the occasion of the 1992 Summer Olympics, whose walls delimit and house the monument. This sculpture was installed the same year that the artist received the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts.
65. Parc de Joan Miró
The Parc de Joan Miró, popularly known as the Parc de l'Escorxador, is located in the Nova Esquerra neighborhood of the Eixample of Barcelona, separated from the Plaza de España by the bullring of the Arenas. It is a work included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
66. Parc de la Barceloneta
The Parc de la Barceloneta is located in the neighbourhood of the same name in Barcelona, bordered by the streets of Doctor Aiguader and Gas, and the promenades of Barceloneta and Salvat Papasseit. From the old Catalana de Gas factory, the metal structure of the gasometer, designed by the engineer Claudi Gil i Serra in 1868, as well as the water tower and the office building, listed as a cultural asset of local interest, remain.
67. Sant Pere Nolasc
The Church of Sant Pere Nolasc, formerly of Sant Sever and Sant Carles Borromeu, is a building located in Plaça de Castella in the Raval district of Barcelona, listed as a cultural asset of local interest. It is the only part that remains of the old convent of the Pauls, called Casa de Sant Sever.
68. Barcelona Shoe Museum
The Barcelona Footwear Museum is a small museum located in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri that was inaugurated in 1970 and closed at the end of 2015. He stayed in the House of the Shoemakers' Guild, headquarters of the brotherhood of master shoemakers. The building is a work protected as a cultural asset of local interest.
69. Parc de Can Sabaté
The Can Sabaté park is located in the Marina de Port, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. It was built in 1984 with a project by Neus Solé, Imma Jansana and Daniel Navas, who had the advice of Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, former director of Parks and Gardens of Barcelona between 1917 and 1937, author of Montjuïc Park together with Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier in 1929.
70. Parc del Laberint d'Horta
The Parc del Laberint d'Horta is a historical garden in the Horta-Guinardó district in Barcelona and the oldest of its kind in the city. Located on the former estate of the Desvalls family, next to the Collserola ridge, the park comprises an 18th-century neoclassical garden and a 19th-century romantic garden. On the lower terrace is the hedge maze that gives the park its name.
71. Parròquia de Santa Maria de Sants
The church of Santa Maria de Sants is a Christian temple in neoclassical style dating from 1828. It is located in Plaça de Bonet i Muixí, in the Sants district of Barcelona, and had been the municipal parish of Santa Maria de Sants when the municipality had not yet been incorporated into that of Barcelona.
72. Club Capitol
The Club Capitol was a theater located on La Rambla and Carrer de Santa Anna in Barcelona. Founded in 1926 as a cinema, in 1989 it was renovated and converted into a theater in 1997. It had two screens, Club Capitol 1 with 523 seats, and Club Capitol 2 with 274. The last performance was held on March 12, 2020.
73. Mirador de Torre Baró
The Torre del Baró or Castell de Torre Baró is a building protected as a cultural asset of local interest that stands on one of the easternmost hills of the Collserola ridge that overlooks the Pla de Barcelona. It has become the most representative image of the Torre Baró neighbourhood.
74. Sagrada Família Schools
The Sagrada Família Schools building was constructed in 1909 by the modern Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí near the site of the Basílica de la Sagrada Família. It was a small school building for the children of the workers building the Sagrada Família, although other children of the neighborhood attended, especially from the underprivileged classes. The teaching was in the charge of Magin Espina Pujol, math teacher and friend of Gaudí, whose photo teaching classes are in the current school.
75. Monument a Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer
The monument to Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer, popularly known as El cuervo or La palmatòria, is a monument in the Noucentista style designed by the architect Josep Maria Pericas and crowned with a bronze statue by the sculptor Joan Borrell i Nicolau that represents the poet Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló. Llucià Oslé and Miquel Oslé are the authors of the reliefs that make up the frieze that surrounds the monument, alluding to several poems by Verdaguer. The monument is located in Plaça de Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer, at the intersection of Passeig de Sant Joan and Avinguda Diagonal.
76. Casa de l'Aigua
The Casa de l'Aigua is an industrial heritage complex that exists between the neighbourhoods of La Trinitat Nova and Trinitat Vella in Barcelona. It functioned as a plant for the treatment of the water that was supplied to the old town of the city and the Barceloneta neighbourhood until 1989, when it was abandoned.
77. A Galceran Marquet
A Galceran Marquet is a sculptural monument located in the Plaça del Duc de Medinaceli, in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, in homage to the Catalan vice-admiral Galceran Marquet. Created in 1851, it was the work of the architect Francesc Daniel Molina and the sculptor Damià Campeny, assisted in the decoration of the base by Josep Anicet Santigosa. It is listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
78. Turó del Maltall de Magarola
The Turó de la Magarola or Turó del Maltall de Magarola is a hill of 430 meters at the intersection of the municipalities of Barcelona (Barcelonès) and Cerdanyola del Vallès and Sant Cugat del Vallès, in the Sierra de Collserola. At the top is a geodesic vertex.
79. Temple d'August
The Temple of Augustus in Barcelona was a Roman temple built during the Imperial period in the colony of Barcino. The temple was the central building on Tàber Hill, currently in Carrer del Paradís number 10, in the city's so-called Gothic Quarter. The dedication to Augustus is traditional, but unproven.
80. Casa Comalat
Casa Comalat is a modernist building located on Avenida Diagonal and Carrer de Còrsega in Barcelona's Eixample, listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. It is the most important and personal work of the architect Salvador Valeri i Pupurull, who used characteristic cartilaginous and voluminous shapes inspired by Gaudí and with a Rococo-inspired decoration.
81. Monument to Rafael Casanova
The Monument to Rafael Casanova is a sculpture that commemorates the last chief minister of Barcelona. The monumental complex is currently located at the intersection of Ronda de Sant Pere with Ali Bei and Girona streets, in the city of Barcelona. It is the work of the sculptor Rossend Nobas, and was manufactured in 1888.
82. Turó del Carmel
The Turó del Carmel or Turó d'en Móra is a mountain of 289 meters in the municipality of Barcelona, in the region of Barcelonès. It was formerly known as Turó d'en Móra, referring to Can Móra, which was located where the Coll neighbourhood is today. In 1875, the first turrets began to be built on the hill, and over time they gave rise to the Carmel district. Currently, only the highest area of the hill is not urbanized, and it is where Park Güell, Carmel Park and the Juan Ponce Gardens are located.
83. Església de Sant Joan
Sant Joan de Gràcia is an eclectic church built between 1878 and 1884 in the Plaça de la Virreina in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, on the site of the palace garden or summer tower called de la Virreina, built by Viceroy Manuel Amat. It is a work protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
84. Mare de Déu del Coll
The Virgin of the Coll, or of Font-rúbia, is a church in the Coll neighborhood —to which it gives its name—, in the district of Gràcia of Barcelona. It is a Romanesque church of the eleventh century, of which the central body and the bell tower are preserved, being the other current elements of the twentieth century church.
85. Pis-Museu Casa Bloc
Casa Bloc is a residential building built between 1932 and 1936 located at 101 Passeig de Torras i Bages, in the Sant Andreu district of the city of Barcelona. Its architects were Josep Lluís Sert (1902–1983), Josep Torres Clavé (1906–1939) and Joan Baptista Subirana (1904–1978), all members of GATCPAC (Catalan Group of Architects and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture). Catalan architects of the Second Republic, brought together by the GATCPAC, proposed a new way of living that was just, accommodated co-existence and defended the collective identity. The creation of Casa Bloc was one of the first steps towards dignifying workers' living conditions. As a result of the Spanish Civil War, the project was cut short. In 2012, after a careful restoration by the Institut Català del Sòl and Institut de Cultura of Barcelona through the Disseny Hub Barcelona, the doors to apartment number 1/11 are open and furnished just as its creators had originally wanted.
86. Parc de la Creueta del Coll
Parc de la Creueta del Coll is a park in the Gràcia and Horta districts of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The park was created from an abandoned quarry as part of the nou urbanisme developments during the 1992 Summer Olympics by architects Martorell, Bohigas and Mackay.
87. Monument a Bartomeu Robert
The Monument to Doctor Robert is a sculptural ensemble today inside the Plaça de Tetuan in Barcelona, in the Eixample district. It is dedicated to Bartomeu Robert, a Catalanist doctor and politician, mayor of Barcelona between March and October 1899. The monument is considered a cultural asset of local interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/1598.
88. Jardins de Mossèn Costa i Llobera
Mossèn Costa i Llobera Gardens is a botanical garden in the center of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is situated at the foot of Montjuïc facing the sea. The park owes its name to the renowned Mallorcan poet Miquel Costa i Llobera.
89. Vallvidrera
Vallvidrera is a neighbourhood of the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona, Spain. It is situated in one of the sides of the Collserola hills, considered to be the lungs of the city due to the abundant forests it has. This wealthy neighbourhood has excellent views of the whole city, from some specific places and in a clear day it is possible to see Mallorca and the Pyrenees on the horizon. Although being a residential place it has important things such as, the Torre de Collserola, the Tibidabo Amusement Park and the Temple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor.
90. Castell de Port
Port Castle is a ruined castle located southwest of Montjuïc Mountain. It was a very important defensive structure in Barcelona from the eleventh century to the second half of the fifteenth century. It is one of the most unknown structures in the city despite its strategic and control importance. Its strategic value was associated with its role as a watchtower within the road network that during this period linked the city of Barcelona with the neighbouring towns, especially those of the Llobregat Delta.
91. Lletres gimnastes
Letters Gymnasts is a visual work created by the Catalan poet and plastic artist Joan Brossa i Cuervo in 1997. It was created for the El Ingenio store, at that time the oldest in its field in Barcelona, as a poem Corporate and to pay tribute and memory to Mr. Cardona, founder of the establishment.
92. Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a sanctuary and temple built by the Claretians between 1904 and 1913 in the current neighborhood of Camp d'en Grassot and Gràcia Nova in Barcelona. It is a work included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
Wikipedia: Església de l'Immaculat Cor de Maria (Barcelona) (CA)
93. Güell Pavilions
The so-called Pavellons Güell, or Güell Pavilions, is a complex of buildings in the neighborhood of Pedralbes, Barcelona, by the Catalan Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí, built between 1884 and 1887.
94. Schooner Santa Eulalia
The schooner Santa Eulalia is a historic sailboat characteristic of the western Mediterranean Sea and representative of cabotage navigation. In 1919 it was launched in Torrevieja (Alicante) and in 2011 it was declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
95. Parc de l'Estació del Nord
The Parc de l'Estació del Nord is located in the Fort Pienc neighborhood in the Eixample district of Barcelona. It was created in 1988 with a project by Andreu Arriola, Carme Fiol and Enric Pericas. In 1999 it was expanded by Patrizia Falcone.
96. Casa de les Punxes
The Casa de les Punxes or Casa Terradas is a building designed by the Modernista architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Located in the intersection between the streets of Rosselló, Bruc and the Avinguda Diagonal in the Barcelona Eixample area.
97. Museu de la Música
The Museu de la Música de Barcelona is a museum in Barcelona, Spain that houses a collection of musical instruments from around the world as well as biographical documents, from ancient civilisations to new technologies from the 21st century. The museum collection comprises 2000 musical instruments, 500 of which are on display, including one of the best guitar collections of the world. The museum covers historical, conservational and research aspects and promotes the city’s musical heritage.
98. Portal Miralles
The door and fence of the Miralles estate is a work by Antoni Gaudí declared a cultural asset of national interest. Located on Passeig de Manuel Girona in Barcelona, it is the only one that remains of the house of Hermenegild Miralles i Anglès.
99. Jardins del Baix Guinardó
The Baix Guinardó Gardens, formerly known as the Prince of Girona Gardens, are a green area located in the Baix Guinardó neighbourhood, between Taxdirt, Marina, Lepant and Travessera de Gràcia streets. In the past, these lands were occupied by the cavalry barracks of Girona, or Barracks of Girona, which ceased to have this function in the 80s.
100. Botanical garden of Barcelona
The Botanical Garden of Barcelona is a botanical garden in the Montjuïc hill of Barcelona set amongst a number of stadiums used in the Summer Olympic Games of 1992. Although a botanical garden had been established in Barcelona as early as 1888, the current gardens date from 1999. It should not be confused with the Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona founded in 1930 and reopened in 2003, also located in Montjuïc. Both botanical gardens, the Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona and the Botanical Garden of Barcelona, are administrated by the Botanical Institute of Barcelona, which is one of the four institutions that constitute the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona.
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