The Best Museum Of Barcelona
The Picasso Museum in Barcelona has one of the most large collections of artworks by the 20th century Spanish artiste Pablo Picasso. This is one of the most popular and most visited museums in The catalonian capital. The museum is housed in 5 adjoining medieval palaces in Barcelona’s Barri Gotic.
The original idea for the museum came from Picasso’s colleague, Jamie Sabart?s. Picasso had given Sabart?s great many work, drawings and prints during the course of their friendship. Firstly Sabart?s had planned to set up a museum based on his collection in M?laga, Picasso’s birthplace. It was Picasso himself who recommended that The catalonian capital would be more appropriate, given his long standing connections with the town. You can visit this museum with a Visites guidées Barcelone.
The collection doesn’t immediately strike you as being a vastly extensive one. Among the early painting, there are a couple of unusual work of the seaside at Barceloneta as it was hundred years ago, complete with donkeys and none of the landmarks to be seen there today…
The Barcelona Picasso Museum doesn’t contain his most important painting - Guernica, for example is in Madrid’s Reina Sof?a Art Centre and you have got the Paris collections and a new Picasso museum in Malaga.
After Sabart?s decease in 1968, Picasso himself donated a significant number of items to the museum, including approximately 1000 items of his early work which his family had been keeping for him ever since the period he first settled in France. This included school publications, academic pieces and work from Picasso’s Blue Period. There are now more than 3,500 works making up the permanent collection of the museum. To go there, you can arrived at Aeroport Barcelone.
The Museu Picasso reveals Picasso’s connection with the town of The catalonian capital, a relationship that was shaped in his youth and teenage years, and continued until his death.
The Museum has undergone successive renovations and expansions, and it’s now starting to develop new programmes, activities and services to become a reference place, envisaged to spreading knowledge and to fostering the visitor’s contribution and critical views. The Museum wishes to be a dialogue place, exploring original approaches to Picasso’s painting and influence and offering new perspectives on the Museum Collection. We invite you to see the audiovisual Welcome of the Museum director.
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February 19, 2010
The Gothic District In Barcelona
Barcelona has many fantastic neighbourhoods, but the oldest, and maybe most stunning for it’s architecture and history is the gothic neighborhood, or “Barri Gotic”. Barcelona was structured by the Romans atop the hill Mont Taber and was firstly called Barcino. Las Ramblas, that runs through the aged city, used to be a stream, and the area which is now the Raval used to be countryside. Indeed the oldest church in Barcelona is in El Raval, Sant Pau del Camp (Saint Paul of the countryside).
Half way along the river that is now Ramblas, stood the old city gates - made from Iron and with the watering troughs for the thirsty horses. This can still be seen today at Calle Portaferrissa (literally “Iron door”) one of the city’s main shopping streets. You can also get there with Bus Touristique Barcelone
The Gothic Quarter has some fantastic examples of Gothic architecture including the Santa Maria del Mar Cathedral, The Palau de la Generalitat with it’s impressive chapel of Sant Jordi, and of course the city’s main cathedral.
Many walking tours will take you along the old streets of the gothic quarter, where Roman ruins sit alongside brand new shops and some of the best and oldest restaurants in Barcelona. No visit to the gothic Quarter is total without a expedition into the Pla?a Reial, with it’s palm trees and fountain, as well as a number of of the initial works to be comissioned by the legendary Antonin Gaudi - the lamp posts. This is a favorite spot by any occasion of day or night to people watch and has an ancient antiques market on a Sunday, too, with coin collectors, stamps and other such collectables making you feel like you’re back in the time of the “shadow of the wind”. Don’t hesitate come in Barcelona and do a Visites guidées Barcelone.
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