Experience Barcelona
Barcelona is a city with multiple sides. Its more than 2000 years of history have left a legacy in every corner of its streets that is worthy to experiment.
Hotel Duquesa de Cardona's location in the city is a valuable spot to understand the city essence . This quality has brought up the attention of personalities such as the painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Miguel de Cervantes.
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Picasso, few days before spending his holidays in Málaga in 1896, he moved into an appartment at 3 Mercé street, at the back of the hotel. He rented as well a studio at 4 Plata Street. Here, with only fifteen years Picasso already had an own workshop and created, in 1897, his first famous painting , Science and Charity. Something in our area has to do also with Picasso's work: "Les mademoiselles d'Avignon" is inspired on the working girls in the street Avinyó, on the gothic area.
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Our most universal writer, Sir Miguel de Cervantes, passed some nights in Passeig Colom 2. This experience probably inspired him to include Barcelona, its port and beach in the famous book. Actually, a copy from the 1880 of this famous book is in our lobby.
What about a promenade?
Barcelona and the Mediterranium sea
The light and the breeze of the Mediterranium is basic to understand this city.
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* Marítim museum in Drassanes, since 1929, has built up a major group of collections that are illustrative of the Catalan seafaring culture and which make it easier to understand the factors that have given rise to and the nature of the country’s maritime history.
* Moll de la Fusta: the ancient port, ships and yachts.
* History museum of Catalonia and Passeig Joan de Borbó: boats, restaurants, sun ...
* The beach Barceloneta and nice walk till Vila Olímpica, restaurants, bars and terraces in front of the sea.
Barri Gótic and Born
* From the picturesque Ramblas , stopping at the most ancient market of Europe :La Boqueria, and at our emblematic opera theatre Liceu.
* Dive into the millenary Gothic quartier and walk about the Catedral , Plaça del Rei , Barcelona's History museum, the arches of Plaça Real
* Born Quartier: Santa María del Mar church and Picasso Museum, design boutiques and cosy restaurants.
* Finish the day listening classic music at the Palau de la Música Catalana, a modernist and breathtaking palace of music.
Modernism: an open-air museum
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* From las Ramblas till Plaça Catalunya* Passeig de Gràcia: from the Discord Block and its Gaudí Casa Batlló , visiting on the way Tàpies Foundation and finishing with la Pedrera House. During this journy you will pass boutiques like: Chanel, Armani, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Loewe, Burberry, Bulgari, Zara
* Casa de les Punxes ( Diagwhatonal Street ), Vicenç House at the Gracia Quartier and walk till Parc Güell .
* End up the route with a visit to Barcelona's icon: The Expiatory Temple Sagrada Familia.
Check our full guide about Barcelona HERE.
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