The hospital that looks Like a palace: exploring Barcelona’s Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau
Picture this: you are walking through Barcelona, coffee in hand, navigating past swarms of tourists taking selfies in front of the Sagrada Família. You walk down a pleasant, tree-lined pedestrian boulevard for about ten minutes, turn a corner, and suddenly—bam! You...
The visionary and the architect: How Eusebi Güell and Antoni Gaudí reshaped Barcelona
Barcelona is a city defined by its architecture, a place where stone turns into waves and columns mimic the trunks of ancient trees. But the breathtaking landscape we see today wasn’t the work of just one man. It was the result of one of the most successful,...
Joan Miró (I). Miró in Barcelona
Currently, the word Barcelona is associated with design and also with architecture. Every year, many people come to Barcelona to admire Modernisme and the masterpieces of Antoni Gaudí, but Barcelona's artistic facet goes beyond Gaudí and Modernisme. There are artists...
The Sagrada Familia in 2026
"My client is not in a hurry." Antoni Gaudí’s famous quip about God has aged into a century-long prophecy. But in 2026, the wait takes a definitive, breathtaking turn. This year marks a celestial alignment of history and architecture: it is the centenary of Gaudí’s...
The medieval market Llotja de Mar
Barcelona has impressive, emblematic, internationally known buildings with a sublime, spectacular or innovative architecture. We can put many adjectives in many of the buildings in the city and most minds will relate it to modernism, Passeig de Gràcia or Gaudí.The...
The best Barcelona museums to discover local art
Though famed for its food, great weather, photogenic spots and beaches, Barcelona is first and foremost a city of art, culture, and architecture - a bubbling pot of history that cannot be left unexplored. Indeed, even if you’re only planning on hitting the...
Montcada Street and the Picasso Museum. A relationship of stone
The disagreement of Picassso with Franco didn't make the task of opening a Museum to show his paintings. During the fifities, it was not possible neither in Malaga nor in Barcelona. Finally, his loyal friend and secretary, Jaume Sabartés, managed to open a private...
Let’s go into the 10 Royal Square
We open the door of the 10 Royal Square Between 2002 and 2007 I lived in Paris and one of the things that I liked the most is that at nightfall, people turn on the lights of their house without closing the curtains or the shutters. This allows "gossiping"...
Puig i Cadafalch or the multifaceted modernism (II)
Very sober and other very imaginative works : Puig i Cadafalch was capable of the most opposite projects. We strongly recoment a visit to the jewel of the production of this architect: the Ametller house. Again it is a commission from an important entrepreneur, this...
Puig i Cadafalch or the multifaceted modernism
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the most prestigious architects in recent history. It seems that if there had been no Josep Puig i Cadafalch (1867-1956) it would have to be invented. This Catalan architect is, together with Antoni Gaudí...