One of most famous symbols of Barcelona’s identity, the mosaic technique used by Gaudí, like many artists in Catalan Art Nouveau, is still in vogue. The name of this technique comes from the main feature perceived at first sight: broken tiles, plates and cups. Trencar means in Catalan ‘To break’, hence trencadís is the equivalent for ‘breakable’.… Read More
You can have a wonderful day just strolling around the streets of Girona. Admire the river with its colourful houses, cross every bridge, each one different and with a legend or story behind. Walk up to the oldest part of the old town, where the streets get narrow and make you travel back to the… Read More
Although the beaches are one of the many reasons why hundreds of thousands of tourists are attracted to Barcelona every year, the truth is that the stylish coastline is quite recent. Believe it or not, it was not so long ago that locals lived with their backs to the sea. The transformation that the city underwent for… Read More
