Spain - Barcelona

Holidays with Friends, August 2009

Sérgio, Su, Célia, Marina, Carlos e Leonor

The Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in Barcelona. Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth). It was inaugurated February 9, 1908.

UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 as Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona.