Pentru publicul larg, Antoni Gaudi e numele asociat cu modernismul spaniol în arhitectură. Dar genialul proiectant al catedralei Sagrada Familia a făcut parte dintr-o generație mai largă de intelectuali, ce au marcat Renașterea Catalană, din deceniile de la finele secolului XIX și începutul secolului XX. Erau creatori interesați de tehnicile moderne și de ideile avangardiste, […]

For the large public, Antoni Gaudi is the name associated with Spanish modernism in architecture. But the brilliant builder of Sagrada Familia was part of a larger generation of intellectuals, that marked a Rebirth in Catalonia, in the decades at the end of XIX, beginning of XX century. They were very interested in modern ideas […]

With this large stadium, Spain bid for two summer Olympics and was picked up once. In the 1920s an Olympic sized stadium was already in place in Montjuic („mountain of the Jews”), the residential area of Barcelona that was once dominated by Jewish traders. But Berlin won the race and hosted the infamous 1936 Olympics, […]