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Plaça D'Espanya, Barcelona
Plaça d'Espanya (; ) is one of Barcelona's most important squares, built on the occasion of the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, held at the foot of Montjuïc, in the Sants-Montjuïc district. Features One of the city's biggest squares, it is the junction of several major thoroughfares: Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Avinguda del Paral·lel, Carrer de la Creu Coberta and Carrer de Tarragona, and leads to the Palau Nacional through Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, which houses one of Catalonia's finest museums, the (MNAC). It was designed by Josep Amargós. The fountain at the centre of the square was designed by Josep Maria Jujol, a collaborator of Antoni Gaudí, while Miquel Blay designed the statues. The buildings were designed by Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí. * Venetian Towers - they are 47 m (154 ft) tall and lead the way to the MNAC via Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, an avenue commonly used to host trade fairs. * Fira de Barcelon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josep Amargós
Josep is a Catalan masculine given name equivalent to Joseph (Spanish ''José''). People named Josep include: * Josep Bargalló (born 1958), Catalan philologist and former politician * Josep Bartolí (1910-1995), Catalan painter, cartoonist and writer ** Josep (film), 2020 biopic film by Aurel detailing the life of Bartolí * Josep Borrell (born 1947), Spanish politician * Josep María Comadevall (born 1983), Spanish footballer commonly known as Pitu * Josep or José Carreras (born 1946), Catalan tenor opera singer * Josep Comas i Solà (1868-1937), Spanish Catalan astronomer * Josep Figueras (born 1959), Catalan health policy expert * Josep Gombau (born 1976), Spanish football manager * Josep "Pep" Guardiola (born 1971), Catalan football manager and former player * Josep Llorens (1931–2025), Spanish writer * Josep Llorens i Artigas (1892–1980), Spanish ceramic artist * Josep Maria Margall (born 1955), Spanish retired basketball player * José Marín (racewalker) (bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moorish Revival Style
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th century, part of a widening vocabulary of articulated decorative ornament drawn from historical sources beyond familiar classical and Gothic modes. Neo-Moorish architecture drew on elements from classic Moorish architecture and, as a result, from the wider Islamic architecture. In Europe The "Moorish" garden structures built at Sheringham Park in Norfolk, ca. 1812, were an unusual touch at the time, a parallel to chinoiserie, as a dream vision of fanciful whimsy, not meant to be taken seriously; however, as early as 1826, Edward Blore used Islamic arches, domes of various size and shapes and other details of Near Eastern Islamic architecture to great effect in his design for Alupka Palace in Crimea, a cultural setting that had already ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullring
A bullring is an arena where bullfighting is performed. Bullrings are often associated with the Iberian Peninsula, but they can also be found through Iberian America and in a few Spanish and Portuguese ex-colonies in Africa. Bullrings are often historic and culturally significant centres that bear many structural similarities to the Roman amphitheatre. Common structure The classic bullring is an enclosed, roughly circular amphitheatre with tiered rows of stands that surround an open central space. The open space forms the arena or ''ruedo'', a field of densely packed crushed rock (''albero'') that is the stage for the bullfight. Also on the ground level, the central arena is surrounded by a staging area where the bullfighters prepare and take refuge, called the ''callejón'' (alley). The ''callejón'' is separated from the arena by a wall or other structure, usually made of wood and roughly 140 cm high. The partition wall has doors for the entrance and exit of the bul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plaza De Toros De Las Arenas
Plaza de toros de las Arenas is a converted former bullring in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Over the years it was used music venue, hosting Carlos Santana and Paco de Lucia in 1977. It opened on June 29, 1900, and its last bullfight was held on June 19, 1977. The building was reopened in 2011 as a shopping and entertainment complex named Arenas de Barcelona. History The plaza de Las Arenas opened in 1900. It was mainly used for boxing or free fights. In 1927, when it became the property of rich entrepreneur Pedro Balañá, the Arenas were remodeled into a bullfight arena. During the Civil War, the building was occupied by anti-fascist militias. Bullfights went on during the Franco era. In the 1960s, a North-American and European tourism grew around bullfights in Spain. The last fight took place in 1977. Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dona I Ocell
(, "Woman and Bird") is a 22-metre high sculpture by Joan Miró located in the '' Parc de Joan Miró'' park, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The sculpture was covered in tiles by the artist's collaborator Joan Gardy Artigas. The sculpture is part of an artwork trilogy commissioned from Miró to welcome visitors to Barcelona. Background The concrete structure was formally opened in 1982 or 1983 (sources vary) and it was one of Joan Miró's last large sculptures which he constructed with the help of his friend and collaborator Joan Gardy Artigas. Miró was not able to attend the opening as he was too ill and he died less than a year later. It was Miró's design but Artigas was responsible for adding the tiles as he had done for Miró's earlier mural in Ludwigshafen Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning "Ludwig I of Bavaria, Ludwig's Port upon the Rhine"; Palatine German dialects, Palatine German: ''Ludwichshafe''), is a List of cities and towns in Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , ; ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and Ceramic art, ceramist. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca, Palma in 1981. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalonia, Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalan People
Catalans (Catalan language, Catalan, French language, French and Occitan language, Occitan: ''catalans''; ; ; or ) are a Romance languages, Romance ethnic group native to Catalonia, who speak Catalan language, Catalan. The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citizens of Catalonia, a Nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality and autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Spain and the inhabitants of the Roussillon historical region in southern France, today the Pyrénées Orientales department, also called Northern Catalonia and ''Pays Catalan'' in French. Some authors also extend the word "Catalans" to include all people from Catalan Countries, areas in which Catalan is spoken, namely those from Andorra, Valencian Community, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, la Franja, eastern Aragon, Roussillon, and the city of Alghero in Sardinia. The Catalan government regularly surveys its population regarding its "sentiment of belonging". As of July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parc De Joan Miró
The (; "Joan Miró Park") is a park located in the Eixample of Barcelona, near the Plaça d'Espanya, from which it is separated by the Les Arenes bullring (which is now a shopping center). The name of the park is in recognition of the surrealist painter Joan Miró. History It was formerly known as ''Parc de l'Escorxador'' ("Slaughterhouse Park"), because the old municipal slaughterhouse was located on its land. The project was the work of architects Antoni Solanas, Màrius Quintana, Beth Galí and Andreu Arriola, and was inaugurated on May 12, 1983. In 2006, a remodeling was carried out by Beth Galí, Jaume Benavent, Andrés Rodríguez and Rüdiger Würth, in which an underground parking lot and water tank were built, and the roof was adapted as a green area. Sánchez Vidiella, Àlex; Zamora Mola, Francesc (2011). Paisatgisme urbà. Barcelona (en catalán). Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-9850-355-5, p. 46 The most prominent element of the park is the sculpture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fira De Barcelona
Fira de Barcelona is Barcelona’s trade fair institution. Every year, it organises numerous trade shows and congresses. Information of interest It hosts over 150 trade shows, congresses and corporate events per year with 30,000 exhibitors, both direct and represented, and receives 2.5 million visitors from over 200 countries. Its annual economic contribution to the city of Barcelona and its surroundings is estimated at over 4,700 million Euros. Fira de Barcelona works to develop new opportunities for overseas business, especially in Asia and Latin America, geared to increasing the participation of Fira exhibitors in events in other countries, replicating some shows that are held in Barcelona and selling services, technology, management and advice to other organisers and exhibition centres. History Barcelona's trade fair tradition dates back to the Exposición Universal of 1888 and the Exposición Internacional of 1929. In 1932, Fira Internacional de Barcelona was officially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venetian Towers
The Venetian Towers (in Catalan: ''Torres Venecianes'') is the popular name for a pair of towers on Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina at its junction with Plaça d'Espanya in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. There is one tower on either side of the street. The towers are 47m high, with a 7.2 metres square cross-section. The bottom section of each is built of artificial stone, the main section of red brick, and the top section is a colonnaded viewing gallery built of artificial stone, and topped by a pyramidal copper roof. They were modelled on the campanile of St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. They were originally envisaged in Léon Jaussely's city expansion plan of 1907, and designed by architect and built in the period 1927 to 1929, as part of the redevelopment of the area for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. Reventós was also involved in a number of other projects featured in the exhibition, such as the Greek Theatre ( Teatre Grec), the Spanish Village (Poble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolau Maria Rubió I Tudurí
Nicolau is a Portuguese language, Portuguese and Catalan language, Catalan given name, a variant of Nicholas. Nicolau may refer to: *Nicolau Coelho, Portuguese explorer *Nicolau dos Reis Lobato (1946–1978), East-Timorese politician *Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida (1740–1811), Portuguese satirical poet of the 18th century *José Nicolau Huguet (1855–1909), Spanish painter Surname * Cristina Nicolau (1977–2017), Romanian triple jumper See also *Nicola (name) *Nicolae (name) *Nicolai (given name) *Nicolaj *Nicolao *Nicolas (given name) *Nicolau (surname) *Nicolay (other), Nicolay *São Nicolau (other) {{given name Catalan masculine given names Portuguese masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
