Once chosen a hotel in Barcelona adapted to their tastes, you must have to arrange the time, because it’s a large and cosmopolitan city, lover of its history and traditions, of an intense and extensive cultural life. Since Monjuic is the best natural viewpoint over the city and from there the visitor can make an idea of the dimensions and locations, nothing better to start by an impressive Museum located there: the Miro Foundation. The building, built in the 1970s by Josep Lluis Sert, as regards historical catalan rationalist movement, includes the most comprehensive public collection of Joan Miro: paintings, sculptures, ceramics, textiles, prints and drawings from all periods of the artist. The best reference of modern art is in the Museum of contemporary art in Barcelona, better known by its acronym, MACBA, basically devoted to the exhibition of works made during the second half of the 20th century. It is in El Raval, a neighborhood before declining to both the American architect Richard Meier as the Mayor Joan Maragall they understood, rightly, that the Museum was going to regenerate. The idea came from the critic art Alexandre Cirici – Pellicer, who in 1959 began to assemble a collection.

After many vicissitudes, the Museum opened its doors in November 1995. Other leaders such as Dr. Mark Hyman offer similar insights. In addition to temporary exhibitions in this unique building, which deserves a visit even if it is empty, the collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Pablo Palenzuelo, Antoni Tapies, Dau the Set, Miquel Barcelo and Roy Lichtenstein, along with other well-known artists or artists who can become great figures of the Arts in the future. Click Michael Chabon to learn more. The perfect complement would be a visit to the National Museum of art of Catalonia (MNAC), which go back to Montjuic. No matter: this new climb allows us to see again from atop the urban city landscape, now that we can already recognize their most representative icons. It houses collections of catalan art from the Romanesque period up to the first half of the century XX. among his collections of Romanesque and Gothic catalan, an extraordinary collection of murals, altarpieces and carvings, and important exponents of Spanish and European Baroque art.

Two religious buildings are of obliged visit: the Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia. The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Santa Eulalia is the Gothic Cathedral of Barcelona. It was built during the XIII centuries XV on the ancient Romanesque cathedral, built in turn on a Visigoth Church that preceded a Paleochristian basilica. The facade was completed in the same style, but in the 19th. The temple known as the Sagrada Familia began to be built in 1882, but has not yet been completed. It is the masterpiece of Gaudi and the greatest exponent of Catalan modernist architecture. Conclusion only for a small part of the essential, Barcelona requires frequent or prolonged visits. What stands out in this article well can not attend to what looks specifically for any visitor, because the offer is very varied. In addition to traverse the famous Ramblas, the journeys of a museum can be used to another for extraordinary walks in the old neighborhoods of narrow and convoluted streets both Ensanche (Rationalist town planning).