1. HALF DAY BARCELONA HIGHLIGHTS (4 HOURS) We will begin this itinerary with a panoramic visit of the marine city
front. We will arrive at the Gothic district where we will make a walking tour by the religious center with the Cathedral , the Bishop Street to San Jaime square, political center of Catalonia with the Generalitat Palace. We will cross through the King of Barcelona Street where remarkable medieval buildings are located. We will get the bus to Batlló House, a building designed by the architect Antonio Gaudí, and the modernist Ensanche district with the works of the modernist architects like the Amatller house, that is contiguous to the Gaudí building , work of Puig & Cadafalch and the House Lleó Morera, work of Domènech & Montaner. We will follow to the Pedrera, also called Milà house, that was constructed between 1906-1910. Finally we will arrive at the Sagrada Family: the great church in Barcelona, designed by the architect Antonio Gaudí, still in construction. Its complete name is Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Family. The Sagrada Family is the masterpiece of Gaudí and the maximum exponent of the Catalan modernist architecture.
2. HALF DAY GAUDI’S BARCELONA (4 HOURS)
We will begin the visit with the Güell Park. Located in the superior part of Barcelona, the Güell Park is maximum exponent of the Catalan modernism, constructed between 1900 and 1914 and inaugurated as a public park in 1926. We will follow until the Expiatorio Temple of the Sagrada Family, the most well-known work of Gaudi. We will continue to Paseo de Gracia. Here is the Batlló House, representing the top of the Catalan modernism located in the number 43 of the Paseo de Gracia. This crosses the modernist district of Ensanche in the called Manzana de la discordia because lodges in addition to this building, the works of the modernist architects, like the Amatller house, that is contiguous with the Gaudí building, work of Puig & Cadafalch and the House Lleó Morera, work of Domènech Montaner. We will end the visit with the Pedrera, this building also called Milà house (1905-1910), the design and the works were in charge of the brilliant architect Antonio Gaudí, is a building of houses where Gaudi shows his mastering of the technique creating a very complex apparent stone structure.
3. HALF DAY PICASSO’S BARCELONA (4 HOURS) In order to follow the Picasso steps in Barcelona, we must begin in
Carer de la plata where he had its first factory in 1896, with his friend and colleague Manuel Pallarès. Afterwards he moves to another one in Carrer dels Escudellers Blancs in the heart of the gothic district. The old part of the city was a swarm of cultural life at that time, and Picasso submerged in it with all his energy. It is saying that one of its streets: Avinyó, populated with women, was his inspiration for his first cubista work, Les Mademoiselles d'Avignon. The centre of all that Bohemian life was, without doubts, Els Quatre Gats, a brewery inspired on a famous Parisian coffee In the door of this establishment it can be seen still today, the advertising poster that Pablo Picasso designed for Els Quatre Gats. In 1900, Picasso already makes in this bar his first independent exhibition, still somewhat with informal character. The Parés gallery is the first one in which Picasso exposes seriously in 1901.. He design the Architect’s School frieze of Catalonia in Nova Square. In it’s interior, there are other two murals dedicated to the city of Barcelona and to the Sardana. Following the tracks of Pablo in Barcelona, we must arrive until the Picasso’s Museum Through more than 3,600 works that conform the permanent collection keeps awake the genius of the young artist
Private shore excursions include:
Official English guide and transportation at disposal. Entrances fee and lunch not included.
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