Disseny Hub Encants Barcelona Barcelona brings its ‘Must-visit’ design museums under spectacular one roof flea market barcelona 2013 2014 Els Encants nous, Barcelona’s flea market, Overhanging plaza de les Glòries and is rapidly becoming a ‘must-visit’ for designed by Oriol Bohigas and David anyone coming to Barcelona after opening Mackay, the city’s latest museum called in new purpose-built facilities. Disseny Hub Barcelona incarnates one Its shinning rooftop structure glistens NEW of the city’s main ambitions: its design in the Mediterranean sunlight. Below 2 heritage. The 25,000m building brings some 280-odd stalls offer a wide range together four of Barcelona museums: the of shopping from ironwork to perfumes, Museum of Decorative Arts, Ceramics, collectables to antiques. The bars and Textiles, and Graphic Arts with almost ATTRACTIONS restaurants complement the offer. The 70,000 objects, amongst them furniture, stalls open Monday, Wednesday, Friday There’s far more than meets the eye in Barcelona. ceramics, glassware, and much more. and Saturday from 9 am to 8 pm. But the museum is far more than this. Discover some of its latest visitor attractions. It’s the very centre of Barcelona’s design encantsbcn.com credibility in the world. The building plays host to three entities: Foment de les Arts i del Disseny (FAD), Barcelona Centre de Dissseny (BCD) and Museu de Disseny de Born Centre Barcelona. Cultural museudeldisseny.cat Discover the remains of 1714 Barcelona

2013 El Born Centre Cultural is a new and unique cultural centre that brings together three centuries of Catalan history. Below the wrought-iron iconic structure of what was once the city’s 19th century central marketplace lies the Barcelona of the 17th century, a prosperous city that suffered a siege in 1714 and eventually fell. The remains on show include roads and houses from that age, all perfectly visible thanks to a huge restoration project. Open from 10am to 8pm from Tuesday to Sunday, there are guided visits for groups and Casa Lleó individuals including tours of the remains, i Morera, Torre permanent and temporary exhibitions a gem of Modernista Gaudí treasure now and the market itself. The El 300 del Born art open to public offers tapas and quality beers and wines.

2014 2014 elborncentrecultural.bcn.cat Sant Pau Site Located at the heart of Barcelona’s elegant Torre Bellesguard is perhaps one 2014 Passeig de Gràcia, Casa Lleó i Morera of architect Antoni Gaudí’s best-kept is a stunning example of turn-of-the- secrets. Sitting at the foot of Mount The Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site is a journey through the history of what is surely one of the world’s best century modernista architecture by one Tibidabo, this was once the site of a examples of modernista architecture, a Catalan variety of Art Nouveau. This hugely impressive set of buildings of its greatest exponents, architect Lluís medieval castle, and Gaudí constructed was until recently a working hospital and now destined to be a cultural centre. Built by architect Domènech i Torre Bellesguard on the same site Domènech i Montaner. 50-minute private Montaner, the hospital grounds include a main building looking down towards the Sagrada Família, with twelve or group guided visits offer an insight into between 1900 and 1909. Now open the art and history of the building and Tuesday to Sunday, visitors can tour the pavilions originally conceived as different wards and yet all linked together by underground passageways. the Lleó i Morera family that once lived gardens without prior bookings, but visits Currently under refurbishment, the grounds and part of the buildings can now be visited with guided tours there. You can visit the rooms on the first to the building itself need to be booked. lasting 1.5 hours in Catalan, Spanish, English or French, among other languages. The stunning Sant Pau art floor, decorated by master craftsmen from The 1 hour group tours for a maximum nouveau heritage site is opening a new information and heritage centre in the restored Sant Salvador hall in that time and see their mosaics, ceramics, of 15 pax are conducted in Catalan, Spanish 2 stained glass, sculptures, and coffered and English and other languages by September 2016 for cultural visits and tourism. The 1,400 m hall is being restored as the architect designed ceiling. Tickets for guided tours are only request. Garden tours come with an audio it with two floors, a basement and a ground floor, following the building’s original structure. The basement available online. Closed on Mondays. guide in eight languages. floor is accessed via a series of tunnels that link Sant Pau’s halls together. Here visitors can discover the history casalleomorera.com bellesguardgaudi.com behind the old Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (1910-2009) and the new hospital (2007), with models of the building, original items, and other exhibit pieces which show how medicine has developed over time and changes experienced by Barcelona, as well as the relationship between the hospital institution and wider civil

Turisme de Barcelona society. This journey of discovery through time is an opportunity to see heritage objects and appreciate the Passatge de la Concepció, 7-9 / 08008 Barcelona building itself, declared a UNECO World Heritage site in 1997. Tel. 34 93 368 97 00 / [email protected] BarcelonaTurism visitbarcelona.com santpaubarcelona.org Gaudí’s Casa , Museu de les mirador Turó Vicens Puig i Cadafalch Cultures del Món de la Rovira to become Museum A place to discover a museum the cultures of Africa, 2015 2016 Asia, America Standing 262 metres above sea level, the 2016 Barcelona is set to gain a new tourism and Oceania Turó de la Rovira is a natural viewing point Antonio Gaudí’s first major construction attraction from mid-2016 when one of its that boasts 360º views of the city. It was 2015 dating back to 1883-1888, , is most famous art nouveau buildings opens to also a strategic site for the defence of set to become a museum. Refurbishment the public for the first time. The opening will A museum dedicated to disseminating Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. on Casa Vicens set to last one year has pay homage to architect Puig i Cadafalch, the world’s cultural diversityin the centre As a result of a project carried out in started to convert this UNESCO heritage who built this city icon for the Terrades of Barcelona. It is housed in two medieval recent months, the MUHBA Turó de la building located in the city’s Gràcia district family at the turn of the last century. palaces on Carrer Montcada, a street Rovira will feature new exhibition spaces into a house museum featuring some of lined with splendid buildings spanning Located close to Passeig de Gràcia on route giving a bird’s-eye view of Barcelona’s Gaudí’s best work. the 14th to 17th centuries. Its collection to the Sagrada Família, and colloquially history, the city during the Spanish Civil of more than 30,000 objects comes The building, never before opened to known as Casa de les Punxes because of its war, the post-war period, the anti-aircraft from private collections and Barcelona’s the public, is undergoing extensive six spiky towers, the public will be able to battery on the Turó de la Rovira and the Museu Etnològic. The museum organises refurbishment and restoration so it can visit different parts of the building, including Canons district, as well as the role of the temporary exhibitions, guided tours, talks open to visitors. The museum has a visitor its spectacular terrace. shanty settlements in the city. The space and workshops for all ages. route, an auditorium, exhibition area, shop dedicated to the battery command, the Part of the ground and first floors of ‘Casa and cafeteria. museuculturesmon.bcn.cat Espai de Comandament de la Bateria, de Punxes’ are being opened in 2016 with shows the relationship between modern The bright colours and references to nature more floors inaugurated in the future as they technology and aerial warfare in big cities. used on Casa Vicens set the tone for become free. And while the final project is Gaudí’s future artistic direction and that is still yet to be announced officially, a gift shop museuhistoria.bcn.cat why this building is so important in terms featuring Puig and Cadafalch gifts and a of the architect’s history. cafeteria area are also planned. casavicens.org visitbarcelona.com Finca Güell Pavilions

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Open Camp is like to be a professional sportsman or Antoni Gaudí’s patron, Eusebi Güell, Barcelona, sportswoman competing on the world’s commissioned him to redevelop part world’s first biggest stages. of this estate in the neighbourhood of Pedralbes (1883-1887). Gaudí designed theme park The park will also be a showcase for for sports the garden and gatehouses with their the latest technology gadgets related spectacular gate, in the form of a dragon, to sports and the world’s top sports 2016 inspired by the Garden of the Hesperides. brands, leagues and clubs. The Olympic Ring area on Montjuïc, site The gate is an immense wrought-iron of the main sporting triumphs during Its attractions are designed for all ages sculpture symbolising the mythical dragon Barcelona’s 92’Games celebration, is to and the main hub will be located at the in Verdaguer’s poem L’Atlàntida, with become home to the world’s first leisure Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium, where bat-like wings, gaping maws and a forked park dedicated to the world of sport. there will also be an information centre. tongue. Other pitches, stadiums and facilities in Castell Called Open Camp Europe, the project the Olympic Ring area also form part visitbarcelona.com brings together the world of sport and the de Torre Baró of the park, including the Olympic and A viewing point on latest in high-tech and virtual reality. So Sports Museum Joan Antoni Samaranch. whether it’s dribbling like Messi or sprinting Torre Baró hill like Bolt, visitors can actually feel what it opencamp.info 2015 , The neighbourhood and hill were named a chocolate box Torre Baró after the two old towers of the waiting to be same name, the first of them dating from discovered the 16th century and the second from the 2015 18th. The building at the top, known as the Castell de Torre Baró, isn’t really a castle as When Antoni Amatller, a confectioner and the name suggests, but was built as a hotel businessmen, commissioned the building in the early 1900s and never completed. of his family home to architect Josep Puig The viewing point stands adjacent to this i Cadafalch at the turn of the 19th century building, at the end of the road known as few could have realised the effect it would the Carretera de les Roquetes. The site have on Barcelona’s urban landscape a has been recently restored and has an century later. Casa Amatller is now one information point about the Parc Natural of its most famous buildings, but few have de Collserola. The viewing point overlooks had the chance to visit inside. Now thanks the districts of Nou Barris, Horta, Sant to a huge restoration task to turn the Andreu and Sant Martí below, and, in the building into a museum, Casa Amatller is distance, the Besòs river, the foothills of open to restricted guided tours while the the Collserola ridge and the working-class original decoration is still being placed in districts of the city. position ahead of the building’s opening.

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