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Real palace of Pedralbes in the Diagonal was the mansion that count Güell offered to the real family for his stays in Barcelona in 1919. In the palace it is possible to be still seen the throne created for king Alfonso XIII and beautiful furniture of time of great houses of the city. The palace also lodges a museum of decorativas arts and ceramics.

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes, was founded on 1326 by Elisenda de Montcada, wife of Jaime II, the church, of gothic style, has a

Tibidabo, Pedralbes, Parque Güell - Detalle

octogonal tower in the right side and a gorgeous interior illuminated with show windows of century XIV. To the right of the altar is the tomb of queen Elisenda. It has beautiful claustro, in one of whose sides the chapel of Sant Miquel with fresh is opened of century XIV. In the room to capitulate show windows of century XV are conserved. In 1989 60 pictures were donated to the monastery, of the collection the exposed Thyssen Bornemisza at the moment in diverse dependencies of the monastery. The collection reunites important works of painters like Fra Angelico, Canaletto, Veronese, Vela'zquez and Zurbarán.

Between 1900 and 1914 Gaudí constructed by order of Eusebio Güell the infrastructure of which had to be an ambitious project that did not get to be finished. It is the denominated Güell Park, municipal park from 1922.
It emphasizes the spectacular room of the one hundred columns, that projected to be a market covered with 84 twisted columns and mosaic with glass and ceramics. It arrives, raising stairs flanked by ceramics animals, is the great circular seat, a space opened with a balcony of curved forms. Also pavilions of the entrance are work of Gaudí both, but not the house where drawings and furniture of the architect can be seen, and in whom it lived during 20 years.

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