A peculiar Gaudi style building in Extremadura, Spain. A strange construction called “Capricho de Cotrina”, located in the municipality of Los Santos de Maimona in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, is one of the buildings baptized as “gaudirreoides”, due to the certain similarities with the magnificent works of the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.
Actually the …
MoreThe castle-palace of Alacuás, Castillo de las Cuatro Torres or Palacio de los Aguilar is one of the noble mansions built during the feudal decadence of the 16th century. It is located in Alacuás (Valencian Community), Spain.
It is a palace-castle with residential characteristics, with coffered ceilings in the rooms, tiles and ornamental arrangements and important …
MoreThe Bellesguard Tower (Torre Bellesguard), also known as Casa Figueres, was built by Antoni Gaudí between 1900 and 1909, using rectilinear forms rarely seen in his other work. His inspiration was the medieval castle of Martin I, also known as Martin the Humane, the last king of the Catalan dynasty of the House of Barcelona, …
MoreCastle Palace of the Viscount of Ros (Sp. Castillo Palacio del Vizconde de Ros). The monastic order of San Felipe Neri started the construction of the palace in the last quarter of the XIX century.
At first it was owned by the Balsicas farm, later it became the property of the State and by it, it …
MoreThe City of Arts and Sciences (Sp. Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias) is a cultural and architectural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain.
The complex was designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, together with the engineers who created the structural design of the L’Oceanografic roofs Alberto Domingo and Carlos Lázaro. It was …
MoreThe Sagrada Família (cat. La Sagrada Família) is the most famous work of Antoni Gaudí.
It is the most visited tourist attraction in Spain (3.2 million visitors a year), even famous Prado Museum in Madrid cannot compete with its 2.9 million visitors a year.
The Sagrada Familia is a unique architectural phenomenon that is called “the bridge …
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New buildings in Barcelona. High tech
At the turn of the century, there were no significant changes in the future of Barcelona, which continued to rely on innovation and design as projects, along with the use of new technologies and a commitment to sustainable development.
Stylistically, the turn of the century …
MoreThe Tamarit Castle (cat. Castell de Tamarit) is located on a promontory on the Mediterranean Sea, in the municipality of Tarragona. Its walls surround the closed village of the same name. The gated town and castle complex combines Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance styles. An intervention from 1916 by its new owner Charles Deering, an American …
MoreThe Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes belongs to the order of the Poor Clares located in the Pedralbes district of Barcelona. Their buildings form a remarkable monumental set of gothic style. Since March 2012, the Pedralbes Monastery has been a heritage center attached to the Barcelona Institute of Culture. In 2019 it had 83,552 …
MoreTortosa castle (cat. La Suda de Tortosa) is an impressive fortress in Tortosa at an altitude of 59 meters above sea level, overlooking the city and the Ebro River, with an exceptional observation deck. Tortosa is part of the province of Tarragona in the autonomous community of Catalonia.
Today it is part of the Paradores Nacionales …
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