Barcelona Local Hidden Treasures

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Not well known as a tourist attraction, this Noucentist-style building was created for the 1929 Universal Exhibition by architects Raimon Duran Reinals and Pelagi Martínez Aparicio.\n\nAt an architectural level, it is particularly striking for the large number of owls that can be found both inside and outside, in different parts of its façade, as well as its gigantic vestibule, which is one of the city's best-known Noucentist monuments. \n\n"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_8113.jpg?alt=media&token=72dd08fb-4723-45df-b341-7a6b6180f4f5"},{"type":"text","content":"Today it is considered to be the most beautiful train station in Barcelona, and the closest to areas that are most popular for locals, such as the Ciutadella Park and the Gothic Area of the city."},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_7819.MOV?alt=media&token=ea3d8ba9-dca6-48a4-bc38-171f2d7e280c"}]},{"address":"Parc de la Ciutadella, Passeig de Picasso, Barcelona, Spain","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.0421,"latitudeDelta":0.0922,"latitude":41.388123,"longitude":2.1860152},"media":[{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FB.T%20-%20Ciutadella.m4a?alt=media&token=3bb8c058-56cb-4f82-a587-5893da4a336b"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2F28ebaee8-6546-44cc-aa20-6791ac277453.jpg?alt=media&token=0c0f1317-ebfb-4b95-9631-b3c0c38d96cf"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_8002.jpg?alt=media&token=e78f815e-61ba-4670-8c04-5d3023c42ca2"},{"type":"text","content":"The origin of the Parc de la Ciutadella dates from 1716-25 in the reign of Philip V, who ordered the demolition of more than 1,200 houses, leaving more than 4,500 people homeless, to build a star-shaped fortress, which was to be the largest in Europe.\n\nThe Ciudatella was a symbol hated by the inhabitants of Barcelona, as it was a reminder of that year of siege and destruction. It was a symbol of the imposition of a candidate, Philip V, and of an absolutist government, a period in which this space was used as a prison for the population."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_8003.jpg?alt=media&token=d09aed6b-9b1b-491c-a393-ddcbc741ee70"},{"type":"text","content":"But it was in 1868 that work began on the demolition of the Citadel under Joan Prim, who ordered the donation of the remaining land and building to the city of Barcelona on the sole condition that a park be built on the site for the use and enjoyment of all the citizens. \n\nToday, Ciutadella Park continues to serve as a social space, where every Sunday there are not only many people picnicking with friends and family, but it has become a social and cultural space where an incredible variety of free activities are offered by the citizens of Barcelona themselves. If you're lucky enough to walk through the park on a Sunday, you'll find everything from meditation and yoga classes to circus-themed activities."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_8004.jpg?alt=media&token=9804e29a-14c3-47ce-88bc-82c69a3d7700"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Fpexels-juan-carlos-hidalgo-12533152.jpg?alt=media&token=c71b066d-9f44-463e-96aa-df2e5d7c8536"}]},{"address":"L’Arc de Triomf Passeig de Lluís Companys,Barcelona","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.00804662778281795,"latitudeDelta":0.00603669713009225,"latitude":41.39103489749232,"longitude":2.1805531454537266},"media":[{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FB.T%20-%20Arc%20Triomf.m4a?alt=media&token=b1517e88-f0c3-4f99-ac31-32be4fd0e42d"},{"type":"text","content":"This neo-Mudéjar monument was designed by the architect José Vilaseca as the main entrance to the 1888 Barcelona Universal Exhibition, and is considered the city's gateway to the modern era, celebrating the artistic, scientific and economic progress of the Catalan people. \n\nAt 30 metres high, it is an arch of classical proportions, but its structure is made of exposed red brick, inspired by the neo-Mudéjar style."},{"type":"text","content":"The main frieze depicts Barcelona, embodied in a figure flanked by the goddesses Cybele and Pallas Athena, welcoming the participants to the exhibition. In the later frieze, known as The Reward, Barcelona hands out prizes to the winners. \n\nBoth reliefs are surmounted by the coat of arms of the Spanish Crown, flanked by two lions supporting the Pillars of Hercules."},{"type":"text","content":"The lateral friezes are allegorical representations of the city's Agriculture, Industry and Commerce on one side, and the Sciences and Arts on the other.\n \nFinally, in the curve of the arch is the coat of arms of Barcelona flanked by the coats of arms of the 48 other Spanish provinces, 24 on each side of the monument."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Fpexels-adrian-dorobantu-2300595.jpg?alt=media&token=e1faf7ef-8921-4583-9a8b-03d4539ebf56"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_7825.MOV?alt=media&token=b12a77cd-6e4c-45bd-9754-6a713c231ce0"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Fpexels-avonne-stalling-4783952.jpg?alt=media&token=d81c9a71-0fa3-489d-9014-e436b07a7bd9"}]},{"address":"\"El Petó\" (El Beso) de Joan Fontcuberta, Plaça d'Isidre Nonell, Barcelona, Spain","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.0421,"latitudeDelta":0.0922,"latitude":41.3851438,"longitude":2.1748889},"media":[{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FB.T%20-%20El%20peto%CC%81.m4a?alt=media&token=fa07b20d-64d0-44fd-86a3-5d4e4469b136"},{"type":"text","content":"\"The world is born in every kiss\".\n Among the streets of the Born neighbourhood, in a corner unknown to tourists, is the artistic work of Joan Fontcoberta, \"El Petó\" which in Catalan means The Kiss.\n\nThis mosaic is part of the events of the Tercentenary of 1714, inaugurated in 2014. \nThe mural was made up of snapshots contributed by the people of Barcelona, representing moments of freedom, and takes the form of a kiss."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Fezgif.com-gif-maker%20(2).png?alt=media&token=6818257d-37a1-4054-95f8-ee9949e35ca7"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_7829.mov?alt=media&token=1cbb211f-2dda-4560-a5ae-4c1879a4e3ed"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Fphoto0jpg%20(1).jpg?alt=media&token=5276ddbc-db20-4a22-84cc-91ebeb5b613d"},{"type":"text","content":"As the inscription on the mural says, The noise of a kiss is not as deafening as that of a cannon but its echo is more lasting, a quote from the famous doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Fontcoberta wanted to represent this message through each tesserae.\n\nCreated by the photographer Joan Fontcuberta, with the collaboration of the ceramist Antoni Cumella, the mural measures a total of 30.4 m², 4000 tiles, 80 columns, 50 rows and a whopping 8 metres wide and 4 metres long, and was inaugurated in 2014, commemorating the tercentenary of the fall of Barcelona in the War of the Spanish Succession on 11 September 1714."},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_7830.mov?alt=media&token=d576de84-fc8b-4fd1-9a5b-523a948bb49e"},{"type":"text","content":"This mural was created thanks to a project between Joan Fontcuberta and El Periódico, better known as \"Moments of freedom\". Where the newspaper asked its readers to send photographs to be captured in the mural of what freedom means to each of its readers. More than 4000 tiles or we could say, 4000 moments of freedom. Or even 4001 moments, as these 4000 moments as a whole, form one big kiss, which we can appreciate thanks to the combination of colours and densities that the photographer combined."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_0521.JPG?alt=media&token=e443b9b1-9d33-44e8-bc4d-bd7c34c125e2"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Ftiktokdownload.online_1670973470178.mp4?alt=media&token=48639db0-d710-4f8b-b817-924db7aac503"}]},{"address":"Palau de la Música Catalana, Carrer del Palau de la Música, Barcelona, Spain","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.0421,"latitudeDelta":0.0922,"latitude":41.3875752,"longitude":2.1753128},"media":[{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FB.T%20-%20Keitensushi.m4a?alt=media&token=02661608-5e41-4a26-bd29-191904aef9ac"},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_7842.MOV?alt=media&token=e2524c4e-8d15-4bab-ba4b-01f88a56701a"},{"type":"text","content":"The Palau de la Música Catalana (1908), by Domènech i Montaner, is one of the most emblematic works of Modernisme. It stands out for the spectacular nature of its forms and the close synthesis between architecture and the applied arts.\n\nThe concert hall is like a museum of sculptures, stained glass, mosaics and other decorative elements, presided over by the enormous inverted coloured glass skylight - unique in the world - which represents a choir of angels surrounding the sun and which, together with the side windows, provides an impressive natural light."},{"type":"text","content":"The artistic value of the building is complemented by the musical programme, with the presence of orchestras and figures of the highest international prestige. The main hall has a capacity of 1,970 seats, and its repertoire ranges from classical music concerts to contemporary concerts.\n"},{"type":"text","content":"Don't miss the cafeteria, where you can have a coffee while you contemplate all the details of the modernist architecture hidden in the building, and if you can't afford to pay for a concert or visit, this is an alternative way of appreciating the building's architecture."},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_7845.MOV?alt=media&token=ef2bf38e-fd47-4787-b3c3-1bcc43e58995"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Fpalau-de-la-musica-catalana-in-barcelona-spain.jpg?alt=media&token=5e679f46-e8d9-4aad-ace8-027a23329456"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2F10dcd34f-7cc1-45bd-8553-396971115bfc-7681-barcelona-palau-de-la-musica-catalana-01.jpg?alt=media&token=3d5a6868-f544-4899-816e-a8aef6b5888c"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Fstained-glass-windows-of-palau-de-la-m%C3%BAsica-catalana-in-barcelona-spain.jpg?alt=media&token=7525146c-a8cc-4f06-8031-df423931157d"}]},{"address":"Kaitensushi He, Carrer de Pau Claris, Barcelona, Spain","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.0421,"latitudeDelta":0.0922,"latitude":41.3893449,"longitude":2.171891},"media":[{"type":"audio","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FB.T%20-%20Keitensushi.m4a?alt=media&token=06443f1f-3ee3-476c-b904-7e5b73f37c92"},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2F656aece3-4393-4a35-91d5-2b0845b2ed15.jpeg?alt=media&token=4428c4a6-997c-4285-b481-299baa1521cf"},{"type":"text","content":"Now, after a long time of walking around and learning about local Barcelona spots through the Gothic Quarter and its surroundings, it's time to walk to one of the best rated restaurants in the center of Barcelona."},{"type":"video","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2FIMG_7846.mov?alt=media&token=13c6bef2-60af-4f45-925e-e9912b604a15"},{"type":"text","content":"The Kaitensushi Japanese buffet offers a variety of food that you won't find anywhere else for this price. Those of you who don't like Japanese food can relax, because the restaurant has everything from fresh fish to “xurros”, for those of you who don't like Japanese food.\n\nAt the price of 14'98€ on weekdays and 17'98€ on weekends, you will enjoy a treadmill with food moving around you from different origins, as well as a drink and dessert. I hope you enjoy this little local guide to the streets of Barcelona."},{"type":"img","content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2Ft5NJqmrObh7YkQxAjyiJ%2Fr54b-dishes-Kaitensushi-He.jpg?alt=media&token=47c3170a-d178-46b5-931a-432716c7a48d"}]}]