From 10am to 4pm on September 30 and 1 October, and 7 and 8 October 2023, there will be free admission to the Güell Pavilions (Av. Pedralbes, 7, Barcelona), designed by Antoni Gaudí, as part of the celebrations for Festival of Les Corts neighborhood. In 1883, Eusebi Güell wanted to enlarge the vast estate that […]

Barcelona City Council’s Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape has today, 7 June 2023, commenced the second phase of restoration work at the Güell Pavilions site of the former Güell estate, which was designed by Antoni Gaudí. This phase will include the restoration of the guard’s house building, of which several studies and analyses have been […]

Barcelona Provincial Council has today staged a festive event at the Castle of Santa Florentina – renovated by Lluís Domènech i Montaner and chosen for this reason, given the fact that 2023 is Domènech i Montaner Year – to announce and promote the following ten fairs. Each has its own unique character and presents its […]

The Art Nouveau European Route is convening the IV coupDefouet International Congress on Art Nouveau, which is jointly organised by Barcelona City Council and Barcelona University and is to be held in Barcelona from 29 June to 2 July 2023. The main strand of the fourth edition of this coupDefouet Congress intends to address new […]

This temporary exhibition was created with the aim of presenting the works and objects that have entered the collections of the three Sitges museums since 2014. This date marked the reopening of the seafront, Cau Ferrat and Maricel museums. Since then the museums have incorporated 1,382 works, objects and documents, of which a selection of […]

The Government of Catalonia has approved the commemorations for the year 2023, a highlight of which includes the 100th anniversary of the death of the Modernista architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, who was also a politician, historian, illustrator, font and book binding designer. The architect of works as diverse as the Palau de la Música, […]

The computer specialist Valentí Pons has posted online the third update of his General Inventory of Catalan Art Nouveau (known as Modernisme locally), a catalogue that this lover of art and Modernisme has been compiling over a period of several years until becoming a point of reference. It currently includes some 15,000 buildings, primarily in […]

Barcelona University’s GRACMON research group on the history of contemporary art and design, together with Sorbonne University’s centre for Catalan studies and visual arts at CRIMIC and the Institut Ramon Llull are organising a colloquium entitled “Villes et capitalité: espaces de création et d’échange (1888-1937)” on 10, 11 and 12 March 2022 as part of […]

The Hotel Casa Fuster hosts this unique experience that combines Modernisme, architecture and gastronomy, an evening that includes a dinner in the Fuster Salon accompanied by audiovisual projections and an expert in the field. GAUDÍ EMOTIONS is a unique, immersive, cultural experience in such a singular Modernista venue as the Casa Fuster, designed by Lluís […]

The academic, critic and art historian Daniel Giralt-Miracle has handed over his personal archive to the Government of Catalonia to be stored in the National Archive of Catalonia, which is located in Sant Cugat del Vallès. The transfer took place last December, although it was formalised in early February in a ceremony with the Catalan […]