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Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.
The Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in Barcelona. Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to […]
La Rambla, Barcelona.
La Rambla is a street in central Barcelona, popular with both 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.La Rambla can be considered a series of shorter streets, each […]
The most beautiful city in Spain, Barcelona.
Today there are seven beaches with a total of 4.5 km of coastline, but before 1992, Barcelona’s seaside was completely run over by industries and there existed no beach for the use of the city’s populace and tourism.It wasn’t until the city’s redevelopment for the 1992 Olympic Games that the city moved their industries and […]
Barcelona, Spain.
Do you who founded this amazing city ? Well,there are two Spanish legends concerning the founding of Barcelona. One legend says that it was founded by Hercules, 400 years before the building of Rome. But, according to the other legend, the city was founded in the 3rd century BC by the Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father […]
