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Image Height m (ft) Floors Year Use Location municipality district; 1 Hotel Arts: 154 m (505 ft) 44 1992 Hotel Barcelona Ciutat Vella: 1 Torre Mapfre: 154 m (505 ft) 43 1992 Office Barcelona Ciutat Vella: 3 Torre Agbar: 144 m (472 ft) 34 2004 Office Barcelona Sant Martí: 4 Habitat Sky (Hotel Meliá Barcelona Sky) 116 m (381 ft) 31 2008 Hotel ...
A concert hall in Barcelona built between 1905 and 1908 for the choral society Orfeó Català. In 1909 it received an award for the best building of the year from the Barcelona City Council. In 1909 it received an award for the best building of the year from the Barcelona City Council.
The whole building would have been 35 x 17.5 metres in size, [3] erected on a podium a third the height of the columns. [4] It was named a Cultural Asset of National Interest (Catalan: Bé cultural d'interés nacional) in 1931. The Temple of Augustus is one of the Barcelona City History Museum (MUHBA) heritage sites.
The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 (as kings from 1162) until 1410. They descend from the Bellonids , the descendants of Wilfred the Hairy .
Public art in Barcelona is a designated group of monuments and outdoor sculptures in the city. The artworks in city's architecture and network of museums, parks, and gardens , put an artistic stamp on the Catalan capital. [ 1 ]
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia (Catalan: Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia), also known as Barcelona Cathedral, is the seat of the Archbishop of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. The cathedral was constructed from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, with the principal work done in the fourteenth century.
The count of Barcelona (Catalan: comte de Barcelona, Spanish: conde de Barcelona, French: comte de Barcelone, Latin: comes Barcinonensis) was the ruler of the County of Barcelona and also, by extension and according with the Usages and Catalan constitutions, of the Principality of Catalonia as Princeps for much of Catalan history, from the 9th century until the 18th century.
Front view of the Palau Nacional, that houses the museum. Aerial view of the Palau Nacional, seen from the back. The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Catalan pronunciation: [muˈzɛw nəsi.uˈnal ˈdaɾd də kətəˈluɲə]; English: "National Art Museum of Catalonia"), abbreviated as MNAC (Catalan:), is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.