100 Sights in Barcelona, Spain (with Map and Images)
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The Castle of the Three Dragons, is the popular name given to the modernisme building built between 1887–1888 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.
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.
Parc Güell is a privatized park system composed of gardens and architectural elements located on Carmel Hill, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Carmel Hill belongs to the mountain range of Collserola – the Parc del Carmel is located on the northern face. Park Güell is located in La Salut, a neighborhood in the Gràcia district of Barcelona. With urbanization in mind, Eusebi Güell assigned the design of the park to Antoni Gaudí, a renowned architect and the face of Catalan modernism.
4. 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.
5. Palau de la Música Catalana
Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença. It was inaugurated on 9 February 1908.
6. La Rambla
La Rambla is a street in central Barcelona. A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 km (0.75 mi) 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.
7. 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 in 1992 on the occasion of the Olympic Games, and the various collections were installed and opened over the period from 1995 to 2004. The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya was officially inaugurated on 16 December 2004. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.
8. Roman Wall
The Roman Wall of Barcelona is a work of Barcelona declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest. It began at the end of the third century and was completed at the beginning of the fourth century. Before that there had been, occupying the same perimeter, except for the area called Castellum marítim, a lower wall that was decided to reinforce.
9. 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".
10. Pis-Museu Casa Bloc
The Casa Bloc is a residential building built between 1932 and 1936 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.
11. Hotel Casa Fuster
Asauste is a modernist building designed and built by Luis Omeneh and Antana in the city of Arcelona between 1908 and 1911 in collaboration with his sons El Omeneh and Ora. The eggs were built by Osla and Igor, the daughter of Elemarse and wife of Ariane Huste, who had to live there. The STA sits on Radio Channel 132, with everything at the top, Ardins at Alvados Prioua at the front and Iagongla at the edge. "Vegetable Garden" is called in memory of the poet, because he created a large number of literary works in the office of one of the cylindrical towers in the corner of Sprieve. Omenech and Ontaner, in their latest work, the latter in Arcelona, use many of its characteristic elements: a solid pink stone pillar base, triple windows, and flower decoration. l set is a very expressive containment, which is favored by marble white and facade Europa; The latter is unusually dull. S-I works are listed as Oka intangible cultural heritage.
12. Parc del Turó de la Peira
The Park of Turó de la Peira, located on the hill of the same name, extends over an area of 7.71 hectares that were part of an old quarry owned by the Marchioness of Castellbell. The space passed into municipal hands during the Second Republic and was declared a public park. However, on this land a group of houses were still built by the developer Sanahuja, the same one that would later build the Diagonal island, and which today forms the heart of the neighborhood of the same name, and a religious school of the sisters of the Sacred Heart. With the arrival of the transition, the city council as yet undemocratic began the adaptation of the park itself, the last work of the great master Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí. Its maximum height is 138 meters above sea level on an esplanade with a large iron cross from where you can enjoy good views of the north of the city of Barcelona between the sea and Collserola.
13. Mina Grott
The Grott Mine is a tunnel, of almost one and a half kilometers, located in the municipality of Barcelona, which connects the Vallvidrera reservoir with the lower part of the Vallvidrera neighborhood, 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 shortcut of Vallvidrera, s/n of Barcelona, bordering on the left the Montserrat school, climbing the stairs, half a distance between the lower railway station and the "carretera de les aigües". Its construction was carried out in 1855, to take the water from the reservoir to the old municipality of Sarrià. Until 1927, the use of the pipe to bring water to Sarrià is documented. In 1940, the water company of Sant Cugat del Vallès installed a pipe to take water from Barcelona to Sant Cugat. Later the Sabadell water company also took advantage of the work.¹
14. Mont Tàber
Mont Tàber is a hill located in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, 16.9 m above sea level, and which hosted the first Roman settlement of the new Barcino. It is difficult to perceive due to the buildings of the city, but the slope of some streets allows you to notice the difference in height between the Roman city, located on the hill, and the lower grounds in the surroundings such as the descent of the Llibreteria, the descent of Santa Eulalia or the stairs of the Cathedral plain. Its summit is marked by a millstone on Carrer Paradís, in front of the headquarters of the Centre Excursionista de Catalunya. Inside this building there are also the columns that are preserved from the temple of Augustus, vestige of Barcino. Despite the Roman appearance, it is a modern place name, first documented in the Middle Ages and transported from the biblical Mount Tabor.
15. Sant Genis dels Agudells
The church of Sant Genís dels Agudells is a church in the Sant Genís dels Agudells neighbourhood, in the Horta-Guinardó district of Barcelona. It is one of the ten oldest parishes in Barcelona. It seems that it was founded in 931, but the current building is from 1571. In 1359 it became dependent on the monastery of Sant Jeroni at Vall d'Hebron, but with the disappearance of the monastery it was attached to the parish of Sant Joan d'Horta (1867). It is remarkable the cemetery that still exists next to the church, the only one that remains within the urban center of the city and that is not municipally owned. Several illustrious figures are buried there, including Manuel Carrasco i Formiguera, a member of the Democratic Union of Catalonia, who was shot in Burgos in 1938, until he was transferred to montjuïc cemetery in 2001.
16. Font de Sant Ramon
The Font de Sant Ramon is a source of non-potable water within the limits of the Collserola Natural Park. It is located 300 meters above sea level, in the area of Santa Maria de Vallvidrera, just below Vil·la Molitor. Its name comes from the owner of the land where it is located, when it was built. The fountain is composed of several elements that make it a large construction. Above all there is an exposed brick house, where there is a mosaic with the image of the saint. The house is topped with a vaulted roof, also made of brick. Under the hut is the mine, closed by an iron door. From the mine comes a copper tube through which the water flows, which ends up in a small pond with central pedigree. To access the pond and the upwelling there are about five stone steps.
17. Laboratori de Natura
The Nature Laboratory is one of the four headquarters of the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona. It is located in the Castle of the Three Dragons building in the Ciutadella Park and houses the zoology collections, to which will be added the geology collections of the Martorell Museum. It is a facility that brings together the scientific functions dedicated to documenting and increasing the understanding of the natural world. These functions are specified in the conservation of the heritage of reference collections of natural and documentary sciences, in the research and study of the natural cultural heritage, and in the publication of reference works. It also houses the Natura Sonora sound library, the documentation centre and a specialised library.
18. Museum of Funeral Carriages
The Collection of Funeral Carriages shows what the funerary ritual was like in Barcelona from the late eighteenth century to the fifties of the twentieth century. Through a set of 13 funeral floats, all of them original, 6 accompanying cars and 3 motor funeral cars, the collection deals with the appearance of funeral floats, which were closely linked to the evolution of the history of Barcelona, their function, the different typologies that existed, all the ornaments that adorned them and the great prominence they had in the funerary 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, accompany the exhibition of funeral floats.
Wikipedia: Col·lecció de Carrosses Fúnebres (CA), Website, Facebook, Twitter
19. Refugi Antiaeri de la Guerra Civil
The air-raid shelter of Sant Adrià del Besòs is an air-raid shelter that was built in Sant Adrià de Besòs during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. To avoid in part the massacre of the bombings, the city council decided to start the construction of the refuge in the Plaza Macià. The work was directed by the architect Juan Maymó, and the works were completed in 1938, the year Barcelona suffered the air attack in January and March. Finally, with the entry of the national side, the refuge was closed during the month of March 1939. Almost sixty years later, in 2006, the refuge reopened its doors, with the rehabilitation carried out by the architect Judit Bellostes. It has a capacity for 80 or 100 people and can be visited.
Wikipedia: Refugi antiaeri de Sant Adrià de Besòs (CA), Ref Bcil Website, Heritage Website
20. Museu d'Història de la Ciutat
The Museum of the History of Barcelona is a history museum that conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the historical heritage of the city of Barcelona, from its origins in Roman times until the present day. The museum's headquarters are located on Plaça del Rei, in the Barcelona Gothic Quarter. It also manages several historic sites all around the city, most of them archaeological sites displaying remains of the ancient Roman city, called Barcino in Latin. Some others date to medieval times, including the Jewish quarter and the medieval royal palace called the Palau Reial Major. The rest are contemporary, among them old industrial buildings and sites related to Antoni Gaudí and the Spanish Civil War.
21. Turó de la Rovira
Turó de la Rovira is a hill overlooking Barcelona with an altitude of 262m. It has been continually occupied, in one form or another, from the Iberian era to present. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) the Republican anti-air defence authority (DECA) found that the hill was the most suitable place to build its anti-aircraft battery, which was instrumental in republican efforts to defend Barcelona. Post Spanish Civil-War the then abandoned military structures were used as shelters and the shanty town of Els Canons, which survived into the ‘90s, sprung up around them. Also during this time, water tanks and communication towers were installed, some of which can still be seen to this day.
22. Cascada del Parc de la Ciutadella
The Ciutadella Park Waterfall –also known as the Great Waterfall or Monumental Waterfall- is an architectural and sculptural complex with fountains and springs of water located in the Parc de la Ciutadella, in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona. It was built between 1875 and 1888 with a general design by Josep Fontserè, while the hydraulic project was the work of Antoni Gaudí, and its sculptural elements involved Rossend Nobas, Venanci Vallmitjana, Eduard B. Alentorn, Francesc Pagès i Serratosa, Josep Gamot, Manuel Fuxà, Joan Flotats and Rafael Atché. It is registered as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage under code 08019/355.
23. 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.
24. CosmoCaixa
CosmoCaixa Barcelona is a science museum located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Formerly known as the Science Museum of Barcelona, it closed for renovations in 1998 and reopened in 2004 under its current name. The museum features a variety of exhibitions, permanent and temporary, that showcase the environment, nature, science, and space. CosmoCaixa also has a planetarium and exhibitions devoted to interaction such as touch and play for small children. It also has a bookstore, gift shop, library, teaching center and cafe. The museum is sponsored by la Caixa. Entry to the museum is free for students under 16. Adults too can enjoy at the museum with an entry ticket of 6 euros.
25. Museu de Cultures del Món
The Museum of World Cultures was a museum specialized in the history of various cultures around the world located at 14 Montcada Street in Barcelona, in the Palau Nadal and the Marquis of Llió, just in front of the Picasso Museum, in the buildings previously occupied by the Barbier-Mueller Pre-Columbian Art Museum of Barcelona and the Design Museum, respectively. It was inaugurated in early 2015. It exhibits the non-Western collections of the Barcelona Ethnological Museum and the Folch Collection, as well as pieces from other private collections. Since 2018 it has been integrated into the Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures.
26. Torre Agbar
The Torre Glòries, formerly known as Torre Agbar, is a 38-story skyscraper located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, which marks the gateway to the new technological district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel in association with the Spanish firm b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos and built by Dragados. The Torre Glòries is located in the Poblenou neighbourhood of Barcelona and it was originally named after its owners, the Agbar Group, a holding company whose interests include the Barcelona water company Aigües de Barcelona.
27. Turó de la Peira
Turó de la Peira or Montadell is a hill in Barcelona, in the Nou Barris district; between the old thermal baths of Sant Andreu de Palomar and Sant Joan d'Horta and between the old streams of Horta and Parellada. On its slopes rise the neighborhoods of Can Peguera and Turó de la Peira. The name comes from Ca la Peira, a farmhouse between the Horta stream and the Can Mariner stream. In 1936, the Turó de la Peira Park was inaugurated, and in 1947 construction began on the surrounding blocks of houses. At the top of the hill there is a large iron cross and a viewpoint from where there is a panoramic view of Barcelona.
28. Església Parroquial de la Concepció
The Basilica of the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Our Lady is a basilica in Barcelona, Catalonia. The church originated as the Jonqueres Monastery, that was moved stone by stone when the land of the monastery was to be demolished. In 1879, a bell tower was added from the church of San Miguel which was also going to be demolished. The rectory stands on the left side of the bell tower and is a historicist building built at the end of the 19th century. On 20 February 2009, Pope Benedict XVI granted the title of minor basilica to the church, which became the eighth basilica in the city.
Wikipedia: Basilica of the Immaculate Conception (Barcelona) (EN)
29. Elogi de l'aigua
In Praise of Water is a 1987 sculpture by Eduardo Chillida located in the Creueta del Coll Park in Barcelona. It is a solid piece of reinforced concrete from which four arms emerge that are screwed suspended by four steel wires on 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 built on the occasion of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, 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.
30. Monument a Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer
The monument to Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer, popularly El cuervo or La palmatoria, 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 Folguerolenc 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 the Plaza de Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer, at the crossroads of Passeig de Sant Joan and Avinguda Diagonal.
31. 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.
32. Plaza Monumental de Barcelona
The Plaza de Toros Monumental de Barcelona, often known simply as La Monumental, is a bullring in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the last bullfighting arena in commercial operation in Catalonia. It was inaugurated in 1914 under the name Plaza de El Sport and was soon expanded and given its current name in 1916. It is situated at the confluence of the Gran Via and Carrer Marina in the Eixample district. It had a capacity of 19,582 within 26 rows of lines, boxes, and stands on the first floor inside and an upper gallery surrounding the building.
33. Baluard de Migdia i Muralla de Mar
The Migdia bastion is one of the eleven bastions that the medieval and modern wall 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, highlighting among these the violent fighting that took place during the eleventh of September 1714. The bastion was rediscovered in 2007, next to the Estació de França and the Barceloneta station, and its current remains are part of the architectural and historical heritage of the city of Barcelona.
34. Sant Francesc de Sales
'Being loaded...' Church and Wing Body Clubhouse is the station order of Salesales monks composed of church and front Wing Body Clubhouse, located in the fence of Ant Oan in Arcelona, between the streets of Alencia and Lago. To be screened by Aoan Attorrell and Antels. Protestant works began in 1877, and the church was built between 1882 and 1885, corresponding to what is now the Winged Ant Parish. 'Being loaded...' In 1943, the former monastery was transformed into a college by the Aris brothers. S a work is protected as a local cultural masterpiece.
35. Jardins de Mercè Rodoreda
The Mercè Rodoreda gardens are an urban park located between Avinguda de la República Argentina, Baixada de Blanes and Carrer de la Costa, in the Putget i Farró neighbourhood of Barcelona. They were inaugurated in 2008 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the writer Mercè Rodoreda. Located on a fairly steep terrain, between Puget Hill and the Vallcarca stream, the gardens contain typically Mediterranean species such as holm oaks, pine trees, marfull, palm, almond, among other ornamental species such as cedars, mimosas and palm trees.
36. Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia
Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia is a square in the Gracia district of Barcelona and the administrative centre of the Gràcia district. It is framed by Matilde, Mariana Pineda, Penedès, Diluvi, Francisco Giner, Mozart, Goya and Sant Domènec streets. It is one of the busiest social centers in the Gràcia neighborhood. 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.
37. Estàtua eqüestre de Sant Jordi
Sant Jordi, also known as the equestrian statue of Sant Jordi, Sant Jordi nu or Sant Jordi triomfant, is a sculpture located in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona, in Plaça de Sant Jordi, also known as mirador del Llobregat. A work by Josep Llimona from 1924, it was placed in the context of the urbanisation of Montjuïc mountain carried out for the celebration of the 1929 International Exhibition. This work is inscribed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/1780.
38. La Villarroel
La Villarroel is the current name of a theatre space opened in 1972 that has always been known for the Sala Villarroel. It is located at Villarroel Street -no. 87- from Barcelona. Àngel Alonso, Adolf Bras, Alfons Guirao and José A. Ortega were the four entrepreneurs who carried out the initial project. The first show was Non Plus Plis by the Comedians, a company that would rehearse their works until their move to Canet de Mar. In 1988 the theater renewed its physiognomy and also its new one. Since then it will be called Villarroel Teatre.
39. Magic Fountain of Montjuïc
The magic fountain of Montjuïc, or simply called the Montjuïc Fountain or Magic Fountains, is located on Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, next to the Poble Espanyol in Montjuïc (Barcelona). It is the main element of a set of light and water games that takes place throughout the axis from the Palau Nacional to Plaza de España, which includes waterfalls and ponds and, in the lower part, rows of luminous columns on both sides of the avenue, today replaced by illuminated springs of similar proportions and easier maintenance.
40. Castell de Port
L Astell in Oort is a circling castle south of the Ontjuic mountain. When it comes to Barcelona's defensive structure, it is of great reference significance from the 11th century to the second half of the 15th century. S is one of the least known urban structures, despite its strategic and controlling significance. Its strategic value is related to its Atalea function in the road network, because during this period, the city of Arcelona was connected with its surrounding villages, especially those in the Roberda Delta region.
41. Parc de Sant Martí
Sant Martí Park is located in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. It was created in different phases: in 1979 the works began with an original project by Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, although due to its death it was completed by the architects Antonio Armesto, Carles Martí and Miquel Sodupe. Phase completed in 1985 and the second in 1992. The park is named after the district and of which was a former adjacent municipality of Barcelona, Sant Martí de Provençals, called in honor of Sant Martí de Tours.
42. 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.
43. 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.
44. Jardins de Joan Brossa
The Joan Brossa Gardens are located in Barcelona, on Montjuïc mountain, at the bottom of the space where the Montjuïc Amusement Park used to be, inaugurated in 1966 and closed in October 1998. The gardens were inaugurated in 2003 and are named after the poet Joan Brossa i Cuervo. They occupy an area of 5.2 hectares of Mediterranean forest, of which 3.8 are green areas. They are interconnected with the Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer Gardens and the gardens of the old Shooting Range in the Flight.
45. Santa Creu d'Olorda
La Santa Creu d'Olorda is a hermitage and also receives this name the enclave where it is built, which administratively belongs to the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi in the municipality of Barcelona, but slightly separated from the rest of the municipality. The place is located in the heart of the Collserola mountain range surrounded by some of its peaks such as Puig d'Olorda, Turó Rodó, Turó del Xai. In the enclave there is also the Castle of Olorda and the Pedrera of the Birds.
46. Ateneu Adrianenc
The Ateneu Adrianenc is an athenaeum and multipurpose room in Sant Adrià de Besòs, located at 7 Andreu Vidal Street. Privately, it was founded in 1925 with the aim of promoting culture among Adrianians. It is currently the place where many associations of the city have their headquarters and numerous cultural activities are carried out there. The building, in the Noucentista style and built around the middle of the twentieth century, is listed as an architectural heritage.
Wikipedia: Ateneu Adrianenc (CA), Ref Bcil Website, Website, Heritage Website
47. Centre Parroquial de Sant Vicenç de Sarrià
The Sant Vicenç de Sarrià Parish Centre is an entity dependent on the parish of Sant Vicenç de Sarrià, in Barcelona. The center was established in 1943 as a continuation of the San José Institute, which in 1907 was founded in this parish from the Josefina Academy, created in 1896 to offer training and recreation for lay people. The center also has sections dedicated to football, recreation, catechesis or cooperation, and hosts theater, music, chess and sewing groups.
48. Jardí d'Escultures
The Sculpture Garden is located on Montjuïc mountain, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona, annexed to the Joan Miró Foundation. It was built in 1990 with an architectural project by Jaume Freixa and Jordi Farrando, and in 2002 it was rebuilt by Marina Salvador. It contains works by sculptors such as Tom Carr, Pep Duran, Perejaume, Enric Pladevall, Jaume Plensa, Josep Maria Riera i Aragó, Cado Manrique, Ernest Altès, Gabriel Sáenz Romero and Sergi Aguilar.
49. Teatre Tívoli
The Teatre Tívoli is a performance hall in Barcelona dedicated to theatre and cinema, in Carrer de Casp, núm. 8. It is one of the largest theaters in the city and in some periods of its history it has hosted opera and zarzuela performances, as well as musical works, getting to see the world premiere or the premiere in Barcelona of some important works of the genre, as well as of Catalan theater. The building is a protected work as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
50. Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum opened to the public on November 28, 1995. Previous directors include Daniel Giralt-Miracle (1988–1994), Miquel Molins Nubiola (1995–1998), Manuel J. Borja-Villel (1998–2007), Bartomeu Marí (2008-2015), and Ferran Barenblit (2015-2021), while the current director is Elvira Dyangani Ose.
Wikipedia: Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (EN), Website
51. Parc de Joan Reventós
Joan Reventós Park is a public park located in the district of Sarrià, a district of Sarrià - Sant Gervasi de Barcelona (Catalonia). It is a green space that has two accesses and has 20,091 square meters of native vegetation, walks and a children's play area. It was built mostly in 2008 and opened on Sunday, May 17, 2009. It is expected that the area will help to better connect the historic center of Sarrià with the Ronda de Dalt, as a runner.
52. A Joan Güell i Ferrer
Joan Güell i Ferrer is a sculptural monument located on Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes with Rambla de Catalunya, in the Eixample district of Barcelona. Created in 1888, it was the work of the architect Joan Martorell and the sculptors Rossend Nobas, Torquat Tasso, Eduard B. Alentorn, Maximí Sala and Francesc Pagès i Serratosa. Destroyed in 1936, it was rebuilt by the architect Joaquim Vilaseca i Rivera and the sculptor Frederic Marès in 1945.
53. Parc del Torrent Maduixers
Torrent Maduixer Park is located in the Sant Gervasi - La Bonanova neighborhood, in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona. It is located at the foot of the Collserola mountain range, next to the Ronda de Dalt. This park, created in 2013, was conceived with criteria of self-sufficiency and sustainability, one of the basic premises in the creation of green areas in Barcelona today, such as the parks of Can Rigal, Spring and Rieres d'Horta.
54. Jardins del Vivers de Can Borni
The Can Borni Nursery, located near Tibidabo, was built for the 1929 Universal Exhibition as an acclimatization garden for plants from all over the world. Designed by the architect, urban planner and landscape architect Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, director of Parks and Gardens of Barcelona, it is inspired by the gardens he most admired: the Latin and Arab gardens, such as those of the Alhambra in Granada. It was completely renovated in 2006.
55. Església de Sant Sever
Ant Ever Church is located on Ant Ever Street in Arcelona Otick District, close to the cathedral. He is the bishop of Barcelona at the advocacy of Saint Eville and one of the diocese leaders. Unlike most churches in Barcelona, it was not destroyed during the period of Uerra Ivil. s why inside, an example of a Catalan baroque, has been preserved so well. In 2000, it was awarded the National Oka Island Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Unit.
56. Parc de Nova Icària
Parc de la Nova Icària is located in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. It was created in 1992 with a design by the MBM Arquitectes team. The name comes from the Greek island of Icaria, which recalled Étienne Cabet in his work Voyage en Icarie, giving rise to the utopian project of the Icarians. Between 1846 and 1847 some of his followers in Barcelona settled in this area of the Poblenou neighborhood, which they baptized as Nova Icària.
57. Ateneu Popular Nou Barris
The Ateneu Popular de Nou Barris is a cultural center born in 1977 in Barcelona in the neighborhood of La Trinitat Nova, in the district of Nou Barris, in a building that was an old asphalt plant. Since its beginnings, it has had a high dedication to the world of the circus and highlights include the Winter Circus, which has been held since 1997, the Rogelio Rivel circus school, in operation since 1999 and the circus children's school.
58. A Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian revolutionary, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule and later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific epithet Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
59. Font de Diana
The Font de Diana is a sculptural monument located at the crossroads of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes with Roger de Llúria street, in the Eixample district of Barcelona. Created in 1898 and installed in its location in 1919, it was the work of the sculptor Venanci Vallmitjana i Barbany. This is a work inscribed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/1446.
60. Pati Manning
The Casa de la Caritat is a group of buildings in Barcelona protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. The original complex was built in 1749 and restored in 1929 in the midst of the expansion of Catalan Modernism. The charity centre operated between 1802 and 1956, when the facilities were moved to the Llars Mundet. The complex was abandoned until 1980 when it was included in the reform plan planned for the Raval district.
61. Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum
The Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum opened in 2007 at the Olympic Ring in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum is located in front of the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium at the Montjuïc hill. In June 2010 it was renamed in honour of Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was president of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001 and a key person during the 1992 Summer Olympics, which were held in Barcelona.
Wikipedia: Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum (EN)
62. Jardins de l'Umbracle
The Umbracle gardens are located on Montjuïc mountain, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. They were made between 1917 and 1924, on the occasion of the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition, being the work of Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier and Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí. Its name comes from the umbracle of the Font del Gat, a greenhouse that disappeared in a fire in the 1960s, from which the walls remain.
63. Water tower for “La Catalana de Gas” company
The Water Tower of the Catalana de Gas is a building in the municipality of Barcelona protected as a cultural asset of local interest. Located on the edge of the Ciutat Vella district, the Torre d'Aigües de la Catalana de gas is a currently exempt construction that is located in the Barceloneta Park, bounded by Doctor Aiguader and Gas streets and the Barceloneta seafront promenade and Passeig de Salvat Papasseit.
64. Parròquia de Sant Andreu de Palomar
The church of Sant Andreu de Palomar is located in the Sant Andreu de Palomar neighborhood, today included in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona. The temple was built in the late nineteenth century. In 1991 he received the Creu de Sant Jordi together with the Casa Asil de Sant Andreu, created in 1866 and linked to the parish. It is a work included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
65. Far del Llobregat
Lr'S Loblycly is located in the municipal district of Arcelona, which has been the municipal district of the Loblyclycly Hospital since 1920. One of S'S works is preserved as a local cultural masterpiece. The L Lighthouse is located on the left bank of the Lobligat River, north of its ancient estuary, and is currently located in Arcelona Gardens. The S Lighthouse is the oldest asset in Spain.
66. Font d'Hèrcules
The Font d'Hercules is the oldest ornamental fountain in the city of Barcelona. The work of the sculptor Salvador Gurri was installed in 1797 on the Passeig de l'Esplanada in Barcelona, officially inaugurated in 1802, and was moved in 1929 to its current location, at the confluence of Passeig de Sant Joan and Carrer Còrsega. It is a protected work as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
67. Baron of Quadras Palace
The Palau Baró de Quadras is a small modernista palace located in Barcelona on Avinguda Diagonal, equidistant from La Pedrera and Casa de les Punxes. It was built by the Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch between 1904 and 1906. In 1976 it was designated as Nacional National Historical Monument of Artistic Interest. Currently houses the main offices of the Institut Ramon Llull.
68. Plaça de la Sagrada Família
The Plaza de la Sagrada Familia is a square in Barcelona located in the Sagrada Familia neighborhood, near the temple of the Sagrada Familia and which gives its name to the square. It is located between the streets of Mallorca, Provence, Sardinia and Sicily. The square has been remodeled several times to give it space and adapt it to the large influx of visitors that the temple has.
69. Parc de Can Sabaté
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 Council of Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, former director of Parks and Gardens of Barcelona between 1917 and 1937, author of the park of Montjuïc next to Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier in 1929.
70. Monument a Bartomeu Robert
The Monument to Dr. Robert is a sculptural ensemble today inside the Plaza de Tetuán in Barcelona, in the Eixample district. It is dedicated to Bartomeu Robert, 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 under code 08019/1598.
71. Parc de la Primavera
Parc de la Primavera is located on Montjuïc mountain, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. It was created in 2007 with a project by Patrizia Falcone. This park was conceived with criteria of self-sufficiency and sustainability, one of the basic premises in the creation of green areas in the city today, such as the parks of Can Rigal, Torrent Maduixer and Rieres d'Horta.
72. 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.
73. Glorieta de la transsexual Sonia
La Glorieta de la Transsexual Sònia is a public space located in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona. Called Glorieta dels Músics, it was renamed in 2013 in memory of Sònia Rescalvo Zafra, a transgender woman murdered by a fascist group of six neo-Nazi shaved heads in 1991. In the first five years after the premiere, the plate was already stolen three times or damaged.
74. Castell d'Olorda
The castle of Olorda, located in the Collserola mountain range next to Puig d'Olorda and La Pedrera dels Ocells, belongs to the municipality of Barcelona, it is a disappeared castle of uncertain location. Some fountains place it on the same top of the Olorda mountain. On the other hand, others identify it as the mansion located next to the hermitage of Santa Creu d'Olorda.
75. Parc de Carles I
Carles I Park is located in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. It was created in 1992 with a design by Pep Zazurca and Juli Laviña. It is dedicated to Emperor Charles I of Spain and V of Germany, of whom good memories are kept in the city, and who on a visit made in 1519 commented that he preferred to «be Count of Barcelona rather than Emperor of the Germanies».
76. Ermita de Sant Cebrià
The drunken ants Rmita and Antaustina, also known as the Ota drunken ants, are hermits from the Arcelona Ontebaugh district. The hermit honors Christian martyrs of the 3rd century A.D., the saints Niokea and Antaustina. The origin of hermits is not recorded, but the architectural form implies a prehistoric era. S-I works are listed as Oka intangible cultural heritage.
77. Parc del Carmel
Carmel Park is located in the Carmel district, in the Horta-Guinardó district of Barcelona. Located around the Carmel Hill, which is part of the foothills of the Collserola mountain range, just next to the Park Güell, from which it separates the path of Can Móra, which divides between the districts of Horta-Guinardó and Gràcia, to which Park Güell belongs.
78. The Fountain of Beauty
The source of Ellesa is a sculpture in Antes-Antejuik district of Arcelona, located in Ante Square. The lemon green tea bra in 1925 was placed against the background of urbanization in Wengqiu Mountain and made to celebrate the National Expo in 1929. This work is registered as Ocal Nterterese Ultimate of the 9th Catalan Cultural Branch, with the code 08019/1756.
79. Palau Requesens
The Requesens Palace is a monument protected as a cultural asset of national interest in the municipality of Barcelona. Located on the edge of the church of Sant Just, in the Gothic Quarter, the Requesens Palace, also called the Countess of Palamós, had been the largest private palace in medieval Barcelona. Today it is home to the Royal Academy of Good Letters.
80. Palau Macaya
Asa Akaya, now called Asa Akaya, is a modernist building that projected Ossep UIG and Adafalci in the residence of Ant Oan in Arcelona from 1898 to 1901. On January 9, 1976, it was declared as the national cultural name by the national cultural and educational circles, and in 1979, it became the first headquarters of the national cultural circles, "Rayala".
81. Barcelona Shoe Museum
The Footwear Museum of Barcelona is a small museum located in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, in the Plaza de Sant Felip Neri, which was inaugurated in 1970 and closed at the end of 2015. He was staying at the Shoemakers' Guild House, headquarters of the guild of master shoemakers. The building is a protected work as a cultural asset of local interest.
82. Jardí de la Fundació Julio Muñoz Ramonet
The Julio Muñoz Ramonet Foundation garden, also known as the Can Fabra garden, is a public garden in Barcelona. It is located on Muntaner Street nº 282, in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district. It was carried out by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier in 1916, with a subsequent remodelling of Joan Mirambell i Ferran. It was opened to the public in 2016.
83. Casa Museu Gaudí
The Gaudí House Museum, located within the Park Güell in Barcelona, is a historic home museum that houses a collection of furniture and objects designed by the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí. It was the residence of Antoni Gaudí for almost 20 years, from 1906 till the end of 1925. On 28 September 1963 it opened as a historic home museum.
84. Palau de les Heures
The Palau de les Heures, also known as Casa Gallart, is a manor house with a garden that is located south of Turó de la Maria, in the Collserola mountain range, next to the path that went up to the hermitage of Sant Cebrià. It is currently integrated into the Mundet Campus of the University of Barcelona, in the district of Horta-Guinardó.
85. les formigues
"Ant" is a mural of the Iberian neighborhood of Acerona created by Aoan Alvat-Apaset based on the homophonic calligraphy of Aoan Aan Enillo. On June 1, 2004, the deputy mayor of Odiotabella paid tribute to the poem, which was included in the event of the 2004 Otata Forum, under the Apapacic project. 'The work belongs to Barcelona together.
86. Jardins del Mirador de l'Alcalde
The Gardens of the Mirador de l'Alcalde are located on the mountain of Montjuic, in Barcelona, taking advantage of the steep slope of the mountain near the Castle of Montjuic. The Mirador de l'Alcalde is part of Passeig dels Cims, a landscape project for the organisation of the high elevations of Montjuïc, from Miramar to Carrer del Foc.
87. Estany i Font de la placeta Francesc Macià
The lake and fountain of the Placeta Macià is a public and ornamental fountain, which contains a bust in homage to Francesc Macià, located in the square of Macià in Sant Adrià de Besòs protected as a cultural asset of local interest (BCIL). The square is located on Avinguda de Catalunya, between Sant Pere and Sant Joaquim streets.
Wikipedia: Estany i font de la placeta Macià (CA), Ref Bcil Website
88. Parc de la Font del Racó
The Park of the Font del Racó is located in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi District of Barcelona It was created in 1926 by Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí. In 1993 it was remodeled. In 2020, Barcelona City Council closed access to visitors "temporarily", first "due to the pandemic"; subsequently, it remains closed for security reasons".
89. Claustre de l'església de la Concepció
Santa Maria de Jonqueres was a monastery of nuns in the city of Barcelona that was on Carrer de Jonqueres from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, in which the church and the cloister were transferred stone by stone to Carrer d'Aragó and today it is part of the parish church of La Concepció in the Eixample district.
90. Casa Comalat
The Comalat house is a modernist work in the Eixample district of Barcelona, the work of 1909-1911 by the architect Salvador Valeri i Pupurull. It is considered an example of late modernism due to its decorative tendency to take ornamentation to every corner. It is a protected work as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
91. Club Capitol
Club Capitol was a theatre in Barcelona, located on La Rambla, on the edge of Plaza de Cataluña. Founded in 1926 as a cinema, in 1989 it was renovated and converted into a theater in 1997. It had two rooms, the Capitol 1 Club with 523 seats, and Club Capitol 2 with 274. The last performance was held on March 12, 2020.
92. Masia de Can Rigalt
An Igara, also known as an Anora, is an ancient ant farm in the 18th century, which is located on the earth and rock at the junction of i Avenue and Akin Street. E public rights are jointly owned by Ant Financial. S is a farm that has been protected since it was included in the affiliated clinic of Unicipis in 1983.
Wikipedia: Can Rigalt (Sant Adrià de Besòs) (CA), Ref Bcil Website, Heritage Website
93. Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar
Santa Maria del Mar is a church in the Ribera district of Barcelona, 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.
94. Poliorama
The Poliorama Theatre is a theatre, former cinema, located on the ground floor of the building of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, at La Rambla, 115. Opened in 1899 as a cinema, it has been operating as a theatre since 1982. Between 1937 and 1939 it was called the Teatre Català de la Comèdia.
95. Font de Ceres
The Ceres Fountain is located in Plaça de Sant Jordi —also known as mirador del Llobregat—, on Montjuïc mountain, Barcelona. It was created in 1830 by Celdoni Guixà. This work is inscribed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/1781.
96. The Design Museum of Barcelona
The Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, is a center for Barcelona's Institute of Culture, which works to promote better understanding and good use of the design world, acting as a museum and laboratory. It focuses on 4 branches or design disciplines: space design, product design, information design and fashion.
97. 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.
98. Museu Egipci
The Egyptian Museum of Barcelona is a museum located on Valencia Street in Barcelona that belongs to the Clos Archaeological Foundation, a private and non-profit organization. The Foundation acts as a dynamic element of the museum, which was the first pharaonic-themed museum to be inaugurated in Spain.
99. Jardins de Joan Maragall
The Joan Maragall Gardens surround the Palauet Albéniz building and are located on Barcelona's Montjuïc mountain, between the Montjuïc Stadium and the Palau Nacional. They have tree-lined avenues, wide expanses of lawn, broderie flowerbeds, more than 30 outdoor sculptures and ornamental fountains.
100. Plaça de Buenaventura Durruti
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT and FAI in the periods before and during the Spanish Civil War. Durruti played an influential role during the Spanish Revolution and is remembered as a hero in the anarchist movement.
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