Tag: Museums

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...

Is the Casa de los Balcones worth it? Carved pine balconies, a Canarian courtyard and La Orotava’s old town

Look up before you look in. The finest woodwork on the street hangs above your head, carved from pine that has outlived four centuries...

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....

Figueres day trip from Barcelona - Dalí’s hometown, Sant Ferran Castle and lunch on the Rambla

Most visitors see one red building crowned with giant eggs, then rush back to the coach. Stay a few hours longer and you'll find...