Barcelona Culture

Discover Barcelona Culture...

Architecture, Museums, Art Galleries, Theatre, Festivals and Barcelona Food are all part of the cultural heritage of this lovely city.

It is this amazing mixture that has attracted people in their thousands to visit this vibrant and exciting city by the Mediterranean sea.

The mouth-watering delights of the Catalan cuisine, exciting museums and art galleries, stunning theatres and the breath-taking Gothic Architecture and Catalan Modernisme/Art Nouveau of Antoni Gaudi all keep us coming back for more.

There are many cultural tours of famous museums and places to visit such as the Picasso Tour and Salvador Dali tour to Figueras, Girona which may interest you.

Catalan modernist architecture developed between 1885 and 1950 in Barcelona.

Many of these buildings were designed by architects such as Antoni Gaudi, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch who designed the Casa Ametller in Passeig de Gràcia.

There are many guided tours of Gaudi's famous buildings and the following tour is a Barcelona Photography Walking Tour to photograph the outside of two of Gaudi's masterpieces - La Pedrera (Casa Mila) and Casa Batlo.

There are over 50 Barcelona museums and many are FREE on the first Monday of the month.

Some of the most popular Barcelona museums include Museu Historia de Catalunya, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Tápies Foundation, Centre de Cultura Contemporánea (CCCB), the Museu Picasso and Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC).

The main festival is La Mercè - (la Mare de Deu de la Merce) who is patron saint of Barcelona.

Festivals in Barcelona are exciting and fun and almost always full of dancing and spectacular firework displays.

This lovely city is famous for its delicious food which is an integral part of the cultural heritage of Barcelona.

There are many mouth-watering restaurants all over town where you can discover the delights of Catalan cuisine.

La Boqueria market is one of the best in Europe and as well as supplying all the restaurants and hotels with the freshest of food, it's amongst the top Barcelona attractions so well worth a visit.

There are many music venues such as Palau de la Música Catalana in the old city of Barcelona, (designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner) and the Gran Teatre del Liceu opera theatre in La Rambla.

There are many other lovely theatres which include Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and Teatre Lliure.

Barcelona is famous for it's art galleries and artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dali and Antoni Tapies who are integral to Barcelona culture.

Some of the most popular are the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Tápies Foundation, Centre de Cultura Contemporánea (CCCB), the Museu Picasso and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) and FUNDACIÓ JOAN MIRÓ at Montjuic (Parc de Montjuïc).