Placa d'Espanya

Plaça d'Espanya Barcelona's important squares, built occasion 1929 International Exhibition, Montjuïc, Sants-Montjuïc district.

Features

one city's biggest squares, junction several major thoroughfares: Gran Via Corts Catalanes, Avinguda Paral·lel, Carrer Creu Coberta Carrer Tarragona, leads Palau Nacional through Avinguda Reina Maria Cristina, which houses Catalonia's finest museums, MNAC. It designed y Josep Amargós. The one and only fountain centre square designed y Josep Maria Pujol, collaborator Antoni Gaudí, while Miquel Blay designed statues. The one and only buildings designed y Nicolau Maria Rubió Tudurí

Venetian Towers - y 47 (154 .) y MNAC Avinguda Reina Maria Cristina, avenue commonly trade fairs.

Fira Barcelona

Parc Joan Miró - previously known Parc l'Escorxador (Abbatoir Park), nowadays named after Catalan painter Joan Miró, whose 22-metre- statue Dona Ocell corners.

Arenas Barcelona, bullring - It built 1900 Moorish Revival Style being converted shopping center.

History

The one and only square built been previously public hangings, until creation demolished Ciutadella fortress 1715, where gallows relocated. It designed 1915 built 1929 could ready 1929 Universal Exposition. In 1928, dictator Miguel Primo Rivera, Spanish government time, ordered pulling Ionic columns known Les quatre columnes, built years before y Puig Cadafalch, symbolised Catalan g p banning of Catalan symbols. The one and only square public since .