{"id":59241,"date":"2023-05-04T14:55:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotelarc.welovewebs.es\/sin-categorizar\/la-manzana-de-la-discordia-the-heart-of-catalan-modernism\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T16:52:02","slug":"la-manzana-de-la-discordia-the-heart-of-catalan-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotelarclarambla.com\/agenda\/en\/culture\/la-manzana-de-la-discordia-the-heart-of-catalan-modernism\/","title":{"rendered":"La Manzana de la Discordia: the heart of Catalan modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"

La Manzana de la Discordia (Block of Discord) in Barcelona joins together three masterpieces of Catalan modernism. We tell you the incredible story of Casa Lle\u00f3 y Morera, Casa Ametller and Casa Batll\u00f3<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n

Passeig de Gr\u00e0cia, one of the major avenues in Barcelona,<\/strong> houses three of the best examples of the Catalan modernism<\/strong>: Casa Lle\u00f3 Morera (by Llu\u00eds Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner), Casa Ametller (by Joan Puig i Cadafalch) and Casa Batll\u00f3 (by Antoni Gaud\u00ed), which compete in beauty since its construction.<\/p>\n

An open-air museum of architecture<\/strong> that has its origins in the healthy rivalry between three of the most brilliant architects of the Catalan modernism, who strove to build the most beautiful monument. This dispute led the Barcelonans to affectionately call this block of buildings as “La Manzana de la Discordia<\/strong> “, which can be translated as \u201cthe Block of Discord\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It all started at the end of the 19th century when a municipal ordinance allowed to break the strict monotony demanded by the urban plan of l’Eixample. Developed by the architect Ildefonso Cerd\u00e1 to extend Barcelona beyond its walls, the urban plan imposed that the facades had certain characteristics.<\/p>\n

Thus, from 1891 the architects<\/strong> were completely free to build another type of facade and the block of buildings located between the streets of Arag\u00f3 and Consell de Cent became the epicenter of Barcelona’s modernism, since the best architects of the moment built there their most emblematic Works.<\/p>\n

A block of different and fascinating buildings<\/strong>, each one in its own way, that joint together the essence of modernism and that are an example of the many contrasts between the different architectural tendencies of the time.<\/p>\n

Casa Amatller<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Reformed between 1898 and 1890 by Joan Puig i Cadafalch, this impressive House-museum has been open to the public since 2015 and it houses the Institut Amatller d’Art Hisp\u00e0nic.<\/p>\n

The building takes its inspiration from the typical neo-Gothic palaces of the architecture in the Netherlands, but it was finished with some colorful elements of the modernism that gave a touch of color to the gray Barcelona of the late nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

A mosaic of twisted columns, polychrome stained glass, extravagant ceramic motifs, sculptures, and so on, this building retains most of the original furniture and was the first building to challenge the rigidity of Cerd\u00e1’s urban plan.<\/p>\n

Casa Amatller can be visited from Monday to Sunday, in small groups of 12 people accompanied by a guide.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amatller.org\/<\/a>                   Telephone: +34 <\/strong>934 617 460<\/strong><\/p>\n

Casa Batll\u00f3<\/strong><\/h2>\n