Tag: Art
The story of Casa Amatller - A chocolate fortune, a Flemish gable and a home frozen in 1900
Next door, the crowds queue for a dragon. Here, a chocolate maker's family left their slippers, cameras and teacups exactly where they were.Casa Amatller...
Should you book a guided tour of Palau de la Música Catalana? The stained-glass skylight, the stage muses and how to see a concert
Most concert halls switch off the daylight before the music starts. This one was built to let the sun join the orchestra.The Palau de...
MNAC map and route - Romanesque apses, Gaudí furniture and a rooftop over Barcelona
Some of the paintings inside were peeled off church walls high in the Pyrenees, rolled up and carried down the mountains by mule. A...
Picasso Museum Barcelona in 2 hours - A route from teenage sketches to the Las Meninas series
He arrived as a 13-year-old art student and left as a painter who had found his blue. Almost everything he made in between is...
Dalí Theatre-Museum tickets, opening hours and the Dalí Jewels
A vintage Cadillac where it rains indoors, a living room that turns into a film star's face and a painter buried under the stage....
Inside Jameos del Agua - A lava-tube lagoon, blind albino crabs and César Manrique’s white pool
A tiny white crab, smaller than your fingernail, shines against black rock in a lagoon that has never seen direct sunlight.Jameos del Agua is...