The Barcelona Contemporary Culture Centre

CCCB The Barcelona Contemporary Culture Centre is a multidisciplinary institution which organizes exhibitions in particular on urbanism, music, dance, debates and readings. This place is commonly frequented by people from Barcelona. Astonishing architecture.

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) organizes and produces exhibitions, debates, festivals and concerts, programmes film cycles, courses and lectures, and encourages creation using new technologies and languages.

It promotes artistic research in fields such as multimedia, backs research into exhibition formats, exports its in-house productions to other national and international arts centres, museums and institutions, and generates debate, thought and reflection on the theme of the city and the public domain, as well as other issues of current affairs. The CCCB also compiles materials that are available for public consultation, comprising its inheritance, its holdings and archives of exhibition formats, publications, digital archives, audiovisuals, and so on.

It is a space open to groups of independent artists, creators and programmers...

See the website for upcoming programme.

Address : Montalegre, 5
Zip code : 08001
City : Barcelona - Spain
Area : El Raval
Website : CCCB
Opening hours : Tuesday to Saturday: 11am - 8pm; Sundays & holidays: 11am - 7pm;
Prices : 4,50 €
Phone : 00 34 93 306 4100
Metro/Bus : Metro: 1, 2, 3 (Catalunya i Universitat) - Bus: 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 24, 38, 41, 50,
54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 64, 66, 67, 68, 91, 120, 141, L94, L95, Tombús, Aerobús.

The Museums Night

Museum Night is a unique opportunity to enjoy the exhibition “The Trieste of Magris” free of charge between 7 p.m. to 1 in the morning, and to complement it with a circuit of visits to Barcelona’s different museums.

To mark International Museum Day, the CCCB joins the celebration with an Open Doors day and a free visit to the exhibition on Wednesday 18 May, between 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Casa Batlló, the master piece of Antoni Gaudí

It is one of Gaudí's best buildings, even though he only redesigned the old façade, making the building more beautiful and converted the main floor into a home, taking care to respect the old building.
The interior courtyard is covered in ceramic pieces designed by Gaudí, which begin in dark blue at the top, followed by lighter blues and finally white at the bottom. The banisters are worthy of note. There is a terrace on the top floor and a tower covered in bits of glass, crowned by a marble coloured cross which is strangely broken, but Gaudí did not seem to mind this.

Location:
Paseo de Gràcia 43
08007 Barcelona (Barcelona)
infovisites@casabatllo.es
http://www.casabatllo.es
Tel.:+34 932160306/ +34 934880666
Fax.:+34 934883090
Useful information:
From Monday to Sunday
Does not close at midday
From 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM

Prices:
General: 17.80 euros

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Bike Rentals

Barcelona offers their tourists many bike rentals all over the city. Ride from the magic beaches of the Mediterranean, to Gaudí‘s modernist buildings through the medieval atmosphere of the Gothic Quarter, and get to see the highlights of Barcelona in a different way! There are also companies that can deliver the bikes to your hotel. You can choose between guided bicycle tours for groups, special tours, themed tours in your own language or charmng tours with tapas and wine tasting. CRUISING BARCELONA: www.cruisingbarcelona.com, (34) 671 548 124 BARCELONETA BIKES: www.barcelonetabikes.com, (34) 600 37 67 96 BIKE RENTAL BARCELONA: www.bikerentalbarcelona.com, (34) 666 057 655 BUDGET BIKES: www.budgetbikes.com, (34) 933 041 885

"Casa Milà / La Pedrera" the Gaudi's contructions

Of the many architectural Barcelona attractions to see during your stay in Spain, Antoni Gaudi's Casa Mila apartment building is another of the artist's strange creations that shouldn't be missed. The Casa Mila, more commonly known as La Pedrera. meaning stone quarry, was completed in 1911 and received a less than enthusiastic response.

The rippled stone façade, said to have been inspired by the mountain of Montserrat, curves around the street corner, while the cave-like balconies seem to flow into one another. The wrought-iron balconies were individually designed and crafted by Gaudi's frequent collaborator, Josep Maria Jujol.

The Casa Mila was Gaudi's last secular commission, and his last work before devoting himself to his masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, which, along with the Park Guell, round out the three main Gaudi attractions in Barcelona.

The Casa Mila Barcelona Spain is one of the craziest architectural products to come out of the crazy (and brilliant) head of Antoni Gaudi. The Casa Mila is hard to define: some say it resembles the honeycombed structure of a beehive; some say it resembles, in texture and design, a porous sand castle nearing collapse; some say it looks like the perfect dwelling for an urban Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Whatever Gaudi's inspiration and intent, the world community recognized the Casa Mila's pioneering design, and the sculpted apartment building became one of 812 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage Sites in 1984. Today the Casa Mila is one of a handful of must see Barcelona attractions. La Pedrera is still divided into private apartments, but visitors can visit the strange rooftop chimney park, which is especially beautiful with the late afternoon sun slanting over the city.

The roof also features an imitation of the bench from Guell Park, as well as an exhibition of the late artist's life. The Casa Mila is located in the Eixample District at Passeig de Gracia 92.

MACBA The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art

The history of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) goes back to 1959 when art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer championed the idea of creating a museum of contemporary art in Barcelona. Cirici and Cesáreo Rodríguez Aguilera headed a group which began to gather together a collection which would serve as the foundation of the future museum; an active platform for irradiating contemporary art.

The MACBA, designed by American architect Richard Meier. His architecture is clearly based on rationalism and alludes to the masters of Modern Architecture, particularly Le Corbusier, by combining straight and curved lines to establish a dialogue between interior space and exterior illumination which filters into the galleries through large skylights.

The MACBA Foundation manages the permanent collection, which dates from the mid-20th century onward. There are three periods of modern art represented: the first one covers the forties to the sixties; the second spans the sixties and seventies; the third period is contemporary. The collections focus on post-1945 Catalan and Spanish art, although some International artists are also represented.

MACBA is situated in Plaça dels Angels 1. The closest metro stations are Catalunya and Universitat.
Opposite the main museum, in the medieval Convent dels Àngels for which the square is named, a chapel has been converted into a separate exposition area known as the Capella del MACBA, with regular video art performances. Entrance to this part of the museum is free. Another contemporary art museum, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), is adjacent to MACBA, and accessible both from the street and from the inner patio.

The surrounding square and architecture outside of the museum is among the most well-known and respected places for modern skateboarding. Together with surrounding places in Barcelona, it is a meeting ground in youth culture due to its reputation in the world of skateboarding photography and cinema.