Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #7 in Barcelona, Spain

The Oliva Artés Workshops are an old factory in the Poblenou district of Barcelona, listed as an asset with elements of interest.

Wikipedia: Tallers Oliva Artés (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Sala Beckett (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Can Framis Museum (EN), Website

The Parc del Clot is a green area in the neighbourhood of the same name in Barcelona, included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.

Wikipedia: Parc del Clot (CA)

The Parc des Glorias is located in the Plaça de les Glories Catalanas, in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona. The original park was built in 1992 with a project by Andreu Arriola, Bet Figueras and Artur Juanmartí. After the remodelling works of the square, a new park was created, inaugurated in 2019, following the project of the French landscape agency Agence Ter, with a design by Ana Coello de Llobet.

Wikipedia: Parque de las Glorias (ES), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Museu de la Música de Barcelona (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Parc de l'Estació del Nord (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Monument al Doctor Robert (CA)

The Masriera Workshop is a building located at Carrer de Bailèn, 70-72, on the Dreta de l'Eixample in Barcelona, listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.

Wikipedia: Taller Masriera (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Convent de les Saleses (CA)

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)

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.

Wikipedia: Monestir de Jonqueres (CA)

The Torre de les Aigües is a construction listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest, located in the courtyard of the block of houses bounded by the streets of Roger de Llúria, Consell de Cent, Bruc and Diputació. Access is through an open passage at Carrer de Roger de Llúria, 56.

Wikipedia: Torre de les Aigües (Eixample) (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Font de Diana (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Passatge de Permanyer (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Casa Lleó Morera (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Casa Mulleras (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Perfume Museum (Barcelona) (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Editorial Montaner i Simon (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Fundació Antoni Tàpies (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Museu Egipci de Barcelona (CA), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Palau Baró de Quadras (EN), Website

Palau Robert is a building on Barcelona's Passeig de Gràcia 107, the former private residence of Robert i Surís, an influential aristocrat, politician and businessman at the turn of the 20th century. It's now a government-run institution that hosts an exhibition centre with three halls, a concert hall and gardens as well as the Information Tourist Centre for Catalonia. In the 1936–1939 period, it was the site of the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Culture. After the Spanish Civil War, Robert's family regained the Palau, until its second purchase by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1981, when it became a public building.

Wikipedia: Palau Robert (EN), Website, Opening Hours