Who built Modernista Barcelona, for which clients, and amid which controversies?
5 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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Gaudí and Modernisme can be explored through more than the shapes of a façade. This theme brings artists, clients and controversies together to approach the people who made that Barcelona. The walks compare buildings and surroundings, ask who they were built for and connect them with the human stories placed around them in the catalogue.
In “La Rambla, from Canaletas”: Then come the street lamps the City Council commissioned from a very young Gaudí, the Güell family's palace, the theatre that paid for a hospital's beds, La Rambla's last surviving convent and the shipyards where the galley of Lepanto was built.
In “Outside the Sagrada Família”: By the pond, the field a bookseller bought for a church paid for only with alms; at the Nativity façade, the only tower Gaudí saw finished, the tortoises beneath the columns and the angels a stonemason from Japan remade after the war destroyed the models.
In “From the Palau to Ciutadella”: Inside the park: the bust of the painter who, people say, was the first woman to have a monument in Barcelona, the mammoth that was left on its own, and the cascade where a student called Gaudí once worked.
Choose from 5 independent walks in Barcelona. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Inside the park: the bust of the painter who, people say, was the first woman to have a monument in Barcelona, the mammoth that was left on its own, and the cascade where a student called Gaudí once worked.
You start in Plaça del Raspall, with two explanations for its name and rumba in its streets, and carry on to the chimney of a factory that burned down and the market its owner built.
Its owner never wanted Gaudí's decoration, a tenant's Rolls-Royce forced a change to the garage, and there was even a bingo hall on the main floor.
Then come the street lamps the City Council commissioned from a very young Gaudí, the Güell family's palace, the theatre that paid for a hospital's beds, La Rambla's last surviving convent and the shipyards where the galley of Lepanto was built.
By the pond, the field a bookseller bought for a church paid for only with alms; at the Nativity façade, the only tower Gaudí saw finished, the tortoises beneath the columns and the angels a stonemason from Japan remade after the war destroyed the models.
A city worth looking up for, with pavements worth watching too. Between narrow lanes, long avenues and a break by the sea, leave room in the day to sit down.
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