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Montjuic, Monument for Sardana by Josep Cañas (1965)

Santa Eulalia co-patron saint of

Barcelona, was a 13-year-old

Roman Christian virgin who suffered

martyrdom in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in

the reign of emperor

Diocletian

Plaça Reial is a square in the Barri

Gòtic of Barcelona

Plaça Reial lies next to La Rambla and constitutes a well-known touristic attraction, especially at night and is a popular meeting place during the summer and the annual La Mercè festival in September, when open air concerts take place, and during other celebrations such as New Year's Eve, often being very crowded.

The Plaça Reial was designed by Francesc Daniel Molina i Casamajó in the 19th century.

The square is twinned with Plaza Garibaldi, in Mexico City. The lanterns there were designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.

In the centre of Placa Reial is a classically designed fountain where many people gather and take in the atmosphere. It’s known as the “Fountain of Three Graces“, which refers to the statue of the three women. The Three Graces, or Three Charities, of Greek mythology were Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia. They were the goddesses of joy, pleasure, grace, beauty, festivity, adornment, dance, and song. Daughters of Zeus and the sea-nymph Eurynome, they were also the attendants, or handmaidens, of Aphrodite and Hera and protectors of vegetation.

Immediately outside the doors to the Casa Amatller, near Casa Batllo, a tile in the ground indicates that this very spot is in fact km. 0 on the European Route of Modernism.

Gaudí's work is admired by architects around the World as being one of the most unique and distinctive architectural styles.His work has greatly influenced the face of Barcelona Architecture and you will see Gaudí's work all over the city.Antoni Gaudí was born in Reus in 1852 and received his Architectural degree in 1878.From the very beginning his designs were different from those of his contemporaries.Gaudí's work was greatly influenced by forms of nature and this is reflected by the use of curved construction stones, twisted iron sculptures, and organic-like forms which are traits of Gaudí's Barcelona architecture.

Casa Batlló one of the most interesting and unusual houses in Barcelona was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí

Gaudí designed a paving stone for the Batlló house (1904-1906), which was finally installed in the Milà house (1906-1910). In the 1970's the Gaudí design was adapted for use on the Passeig de Gràcia avenue.In homage to the architect, Passeig de Gràcia was paved with tiles produced with the original molds by the same company that manufactured in the early twentieth century.

It’s one of the Gaudí-designed tiles that line Passeig de Gràcia (the poshest street in Barcelona), in the rain, and really shows how beautiful Barcelona is in any kind of weather. The rain brings out the colors in the tiles, are pale grey-green in the sunlight.

Passeig de Gràcia

Joan Miró laid one of his mosaics on the emblematic Pla de l'Os in the heart of the famous Barcelona's Rambla

The place to find Mirós' circular tile mosaic can be found very close to both the Liceu Theatre and the Liceu metro, in front of Casa Bruno Quadros Look for a large circular coloured mosaic tiling right in the middle of the Ramblas.

La Rambla is an endless box of surprises. A box that opens and allows us to glimpse jewels, including this allegory to Orientalism, the Casa Bruno Cuadros, which used to be an umbrella shop of Barcelona in its time. Its style, similar to modernisme with its use of colour and the delicacy of its decorations, have made the Casa Bruno Cuadros a worthy addition to the photograph albums of many of Barcelona’s visitors.

Joan Miró was born in Barcelona in 1893 and studied at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts and the Academia Galí. His early works were reminiscent of Catalan folk art, yet one could detect the flavor of cubism in his paintings. 'Dona i Ocell' Sculpture, the starkly modern statue stands about 22 meters (70 feet) tall and sits on a simple island in the middle of a small pool in the Parc Joan Miró

Covering four city blocks, this expansive park consists of two levels. The lower level is landscaped with pine, palm, and fragrant eucalyptus trees and colorful flowers, especially during the spring and summer months. The upper level is paved and contains the park's crowning glory, one of Joan Miró's last sculptures, entitled Dona i Ocell

The area where Parc Joan Miró now sits was, until 1979, the location of a municipal slaughterhouse. Because of that, it was originally named Parc de l'Escorxador (Slaughterhouse park).

'Dona i Ocell‘ Joan Miro, 1982

Ramblas

La Rambla is a street in central Barcelona, popular with tourists and locals alike. A tree-lined pedestrian mall, it stretches for 1.2 kilometers between Barri Gòtic and El Raval, connecting Plaça de Catalunya in the centre with the Christopher Columbus Monument at Port Vell.

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Mare de Déu del Roser, Palau de la Virreina by Luisa Granero, 1967

Mare de Déu del Roser, Palau de la Virreina, Rambla 99, by Luisa Granero, 1967

The Museu de Cera, a wax museum on a Las Ramblas sidestreet not far from the Christopher Columbus monument.The Barcelona wax museum contains a hundreds of human-like wax figures representing historical and entertainment personalities.  Most of the characters only exist in our minds because we only see them in the movies or on the television.  The Museu de Cera brings the characters to life – and then makes time stand still

This fountain was designed in 1872 by the French sculptor Charles A. Lebourg, as commissioned by the English millionaire philanthropist Sir Richard Wallace, who wanted a fountain which would symbolise the universal fraternity of men. Wallace commissioned hundreds of copies of this fountain which he would present to the main cities. Twelve of these were donated to Barcelona for the 1888 World Fair, of which only two original fountains remain in visible areas, one on La Rambla, in front of the Wax Museum, and the other at the intersection of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes with Passeig de Gràcia.

Font de Canaletes is an ornate fountain, crowned by a lamp post, in Rambla de Canaletes, the upper part of La Rambla, near Plaça de Catalunya. A late 19th century design, it replaced a fountain dating back to the 16th century, next to the Estudis Generals, a no longer existing university introduced in 1714 by Philip V of Spain after the banning and closure of the University of Barcelona. Nowadays it is the city's most popular meeting point, and a fixture of football fans and hooligans after Barça football matches since the 1930s

Tradition has that the one who drinks from the Font de Canaletes will come back to Barcelona, as the inscription on the floor suggests. The fountain is named after the northern wall of the city (dating from the 14th century), called Canaletes because of the water pipes that went through it supplying Barcelona's old city.

Old cannon foundry in the

Rambla de Santa Monica in Barcelona

converted into the headquarters of

the Bank of Barcelona

Rambla de Catalunya

Sant Jordi in front of the

Deputation of Barcelona

Joan Rebull i Torroja

(1899 - 1981)

Antoni Rovira i Trias (1816 - 1889) was a

Catalan architect, urban

planner and founder of

several associations, among them

Societat Filomàtica de Barcelona.

He's known as the architect of several buildings in Barcelona,

among them the markets of Barceloneta (1873), La

Concepció (1885; on career d'Aragó), El Born (1876) and Sant

Antoni (1879).

The new headquarters for Aguas de Barcelona (Agbar), the municipal

water company, Torre Agbar

He's also responsible for the Passatge del Comerç

(1855), Teatre Circ Barcelonès (1853) and the construction of the loggia of Palau Moja (1856) and, vital to the

development of the city, the demolition of

the Ciutadella, the 18th-

century military citadel.

Monument at Plaça de Rovira

i Trias, in Gràcia, by Joaquim Camps

A Pau Casals (Josep Viladomat) Av. Pau Casals

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