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The Poble Espanyol (literally, Spanish town) is an architectural museum located in Barcelona a few metres away from the fountains of Montjuic. It is one of the most interesting attractions in the city, merging contemporary art, architecture, handicrafts and gastronomy, all in a safe and peaceful environment.
The museum consists of 117 buildings on a 1:1 scale, recreating a Spanish village with streets, houses, parks, theatres, schools, restaurants and craft workshops.
The Poble Espanyol was built in 1929 as a synthesis of Spain’s cultural architecture for the International Exhibition. The idea was promoted by the Catalan architect Puig Cadafalch and the project was realised by the architects Francesc Folguera and Ramon Reventos, assisted by the art critic Miquel Utrillo and the painter Xavier Nogues.
The four professionals travelled the length and breadth of Spain to collect the iconographic material they needed: during the tour they took hundreds of photographs, wrote notes and notes that enabled them to make what they had seen a reality. Altogether, the artists visited six hundred thousand areas in order to construct a complex synthesis of the architectural and cultural essence of Spain.
The Poble Espanyol consists of 117 buildings relating to fifteen of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y Leon, Catalonia, Comunidad Valenciana, Extremadura, Galicia, Balearic Islands, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre and the Basque Country.
The autonomous communities of La Rioja and the Canary Islands are not represented: the former is not present because it was not an autonomous region when the museum was designed and built. The Canary Islands, on the other hand, are not represented because the four professionals were unable to visit them for economic reasons.
Although it was designed with the idea of being demolished at the end of the 1929 International Exhibition, Poble Espanyol survived due to its great success. So even today, visitors can still see the streets, squares and façades that make up the Poble Espanyol, with reproductions of buildings from the different areas of Spain and the environmental and cultural diversity that the country displays.
Today, the Poble celebrates various gastronomic festivals, concerts, especially in summer, flamenco shows, private events such as weddings or parties, children’s activities, celebrations and much more.
The cultural attractions of the Poble Espanyol are alive thanks to the presence of more than 30 artisans, who work there regularly and continuously. There are professionals who produce blown glass, leather, ceramics, jewellery, masks, wickerwork, Spanish guitars and much more, in the studio or through workshops to provide unique handmade pieces, customised according to the client’s wishes.
Therefore, even though it is a pedestrian open-air museum, Poble Espanyol is a unique shopping centre within the city of Barcelona.
And between entertainment, artistic discoveries, visits to artisans and shops selling gastronomic products, there is also the possibility of trying the delicious typical food in one of the restaurants or bars. There is a wide range of establishments, many have quiet terraces and offer different types of cuisine.
The Fran Daurel Museum is another attraction in Poble Espanyol. It is a private collection open to the public with over 295 works by contemporary Spanish artists, including Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Tapies, Barceló, Guinovart and Amat. Paintings, sculptures, tapestries, drawings and ceramics are on display in this museum, which also includes a garden with 41 large-scale sculptures.
Inside the museum are numerous Picasso ceramics from the 1950s and 1960s, when he used both the traditional technique of making ceramics and his own innovative methods. With ceramics, Picasso expresses feelings such as joy and happiness. On the one hand because the Second World War was over and on the other because of the birth of his little girls Claudia and Paloma. This feeling is perceived in smiling human faces and in the presence of animals.
The Poble Espanyol has a theatre that regularly organises shows for children. Every Sunday you can attend numerous theatre, dance, music, clown or puppet events, which change every month. Next door is also the Barcelona Theatre School.
You can visit the Poble Espanyol in two ways: buy a skip-the-line ticket or a combined ticket with a visit to other Barcelona attractions: choose the one that suits you! We recommend that you visit at off-peak times, i.e. early in the morning or late in the afternoon.
Given the influx of tourists visiting the Poble Espanyol, we recommend that you book your tickets in advance directly online, by clicking on the box below. Buying your ticket online will allow you to avoid the queues at the ticket office and secure your visit.
If, in addition to the Poble Espanyol, you want to visit other attractions in the city, choose a combined ticket: you could save money compared to buying individual tickets for each attraction.
Finally, if you intend to buy a city card such as the Barcelona Card or Barcelona Card Express, you will get a discount on your Poble Espanyol entrance ticket, in addition to all the benefits of the cards, such as unlimited transport and free or discounted entry to over 100 attractions and activities in Barcelona.
Poble Espanyol is part of the Montjuic area. To be precise, it is located between Avenida dels Montanyans and Camì de la Foixarda, west of the Font Magica.
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