Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Barcelona, Spain

La Villarroel is the current name of a theatrical space opened in 1972 that has always been known as the Sala Villarroel. It is on Villarroel Street -núm. 87- of Barcelona. Ángel Alonso, Adolf Bras, Alfons Guirao and José A. Ortega were the four businessmen who carried out the initial project. The first show was Non Plus Plis dels Comediants, a company that would rehearse their plays until they moved to Canet de Mar. From then on it was called Villarroel Teatre.

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The Basilica of Saint Joseph Oriol is a basilica in Barcelona, Catalonia.

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The Goya Theatre is a performance hall in Barcelona, located in the Centre Aragonès building.

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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.

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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.

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Font de Canaletes is an ornate fountain, crowned by a lamp post, in Barcelona, Catalonia, in Rambla de Canaletes, the upper part of La Rambla, near Plaça de Catalunya.

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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.

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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.

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The Borràs Theatre is a theatre, formerly a cinema, located at Plaça d'Urquinaona, 9 in Barcelona. It belongs to the Balañà Group.

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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.

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The Homage to the Book is a corporeal poem or urban poem by Joan Brossa created in 1994 and designed by the visual artist Josep Pla-Narbona, located at the intersection of Passeig de Gràcia and Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, in Barcelona. It was commissioned by the Guild of Old Booksellers of Catalonia. The location of this work by Brossa is not accidental; it is precisely in Passeig de Gràcia where the stands of the Ancient and Modern Second-Hand Book Fair, organized by the aforementioned guild, are displayed annually.

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Casa Pia Batlló is a building located on the corner of Rambla de Catalunya and Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, listed as a cultural asset of local interest.

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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.

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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.

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The Fundació Antoni Tàpies is a cultural center and museum, located in Carrer d'Aragó, in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is dedicated mainly to the life and works of the painter Antoni Tàpies.

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The publishing house Montaner i Simon was founded in Barcelona in 1868 by Ramon de Montaner i Vila and Francesc Simon i Font. He was especially dedicated to publishing monumental and bibliophile works in Spanish.

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The Perfume Museum of Barcelona, officially known in Catalan as Museu del Perfum, was founded in 1961 to exhibit an evolution of perfume vessels throughout the ages.

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Casa Mulleras is a house in Barcelona, Spain, located on the Passeig de Gràcia in the Eixample district. Originally built in 1868, it was remodelled in a Neoclassical style by Enric Sagnier between 1906 and 1911. The house forms part of a row of buildings known as the Illa de la Discòrdia.

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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.

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Passatge de Permanyer is an alley that crosses the block of houses framed by Roger de Llúria, Pau Claris, Diputació and Consell de Cent streets, in the Eixample district of Barcelona. The passage, which honours the memory of Francesc Permanyer i Tuyets, is made up of a set of English-style huts. It was designed in a unitary way by Jeroni Granell i Barrera in 1864. The houses consist of a semi-basement and a raised ground floor, with a small garden in front. Conceived in an eclectic style, they incorporate classical elements and others of an Arabizing nature. The houses at the ends, in the same style, have one more floor, of the mansard type. This complex is included in the Barcelona City Council's catalogue of cultural assets of local interest. It is a work protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.

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The Fountain of Diana is a sculptural monument located at the intersection of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes and Carrer de Roger de Llúria, 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 registered as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/1446.

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The Palace is a hotel in the city of Barcelona, formerly known as the Hotel Ritz. The building, designed by the architect Eduard Ferrès, is located at Gran Via núm. 668 at the junction with c. Roger de Llúria. The former Ritz Hotel was founded in 1919 on the initiative of César Ritz. This new establishment was inspired by the Palace and Ritz hotels in Madrid.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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