El modernism was an artistic and cultural movement of the late 19th century that was unique in Barcelona. Find out!

We will start the route along Passeig de Gracia where we will find the houses Lleó Morera, Batlló, Milan and Amatller built respectively by Domènech i Montaner, Antoni Gaudí and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, the great masters of Modernism.

The Ametller house can be visited in small groups. The Batlló house It is a masterpiece and jewel of Antoni Gaudí's architecture that stands out for its design and colors. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. La Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera, is one of Gaudí's most renowned works with an undulating façade that reminds us of the proximity of the sea. You can visit, among the sinuous and uneven shapes of the roof, its Magical-shaped chimneys so present in all of Gaudí's work.

The master's masterpiece is The Sagrada Familia, whose details hide a multitude of stories from the Bible, but also from nature and Christian religious symbolism. The endless cathedral and universal symbol of Barcelona began to be built in 1882. This is a Expiatory temple and, therefore, it is still financed through donations, in addition to the collection of tickets. The official end date is set at 2026.

The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. This modernist complex by Lluís Doménech i Montaner, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, can be visited since its rehabilitation in 2014. The famous architect planned the construction of twenty-seven pavilions in the space equivalent to nine blocks of the Eixample neighborhood. Today you can walk through these landscaped pavilions, which make up a kind of city within a city.

The Palau de la Música Catalana. This concert hall was built between 1905 and 1908 under the orders of the architect Lluís Doménech i Montaner to be the headquarters of the Orfeó Català, a choir founded in 1891 focused on disseminating Catalan and universal choral music. It was built with the contributions of people from all walks of life. It is essential to visit the interior to contemplate the concert hall, which is the real heart of Palau. Above all, the glass and iron skylight that floods the entire space with light and color stands out, in addition to the stone sculptures of valkyries and muses that surround the stage.

El Palau Güell, Park Güell And the Gaudí Crypt from Colonia Güell are other great examples of the master's magnificent work that we invite you to learn about. In them you can find the key to the Gaudinian game between nature and architecture.

The 1992 Olympism brought a profound urban remodeling to Barcelona that opened the city to the sea and He drew the current skyline which ended up taking shape with the urban development of the Universal Forum of Cultures and with the initiative of the Barcelona City Council to transform 200 hectares of industrial land in the Poblenou neighborhood into a productive and innovative district with modern spaces for the strategic concentration of knowledge-intensive activities known as 22 @Barcelona.

El Universal Forum of Cultures 2004 it involved urban planning at the nearby mouth of the Besòs river, on land gained from the sea and in Sant Adrià del Besós. Two large buildings stand out from the Forum site: the Forum Building and the Barcelona International Convention Center of Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and an artificial dune system that integrates two open-air auditoriums designed by the prestigious Spanish architect Alejandro Zaera Polo.

The MACBA or Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, located in the heart of the Raval neighborhood and inaugurated in 1995, is one of the many buildings with an internationally renowned firm. In this case, it is Richard Meier.

Although the uniqueness of Barcelona's contemporary architecture can also be found in such remarkable buildings as the Agbar Tower of Jean Nouvel; the Collserola Tower of Norman Foster; the Auditors of Rafael Moneo; the TNC of Ricard Bofill; or the Bac de Roda Bridge of Santiago Calatrava.

Entire neighborhoods of Barcelona are linked to post-modern architecture, such as the Olympic Village, born from the old industrial land of Poblenou in front of the sea. In the Olympic Ring of Montjuïc we find the Palau Sant Jordi, the work of the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, and very close by, the Barcelona Botanical Garden extends down the mountainside like a mesh of fully accessible terraces.

You should also get lost in Barcelona's many parks to discover works of contemporary public architecture and daring designs. We will find some very notable ones in the Estació del Nord park, in the Parc de l'Espanya Industrial or in the Joan Miró, presided over by the artist's monumental sculpture.

Special mention should be made of the Modern Movement exhibition, in which it stands out. The German Pavilion in Barcelona, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as the German national pavilion for the Barcelona International Exhibition held in Montjuïc. This symbolic work of the Modern Movement has been studied and interpreted exhaustively while inspiring the work of several generations of architects.

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