Barcelona - Modern Architecture

	Camp Nou	Camp Nou ("New Field" in Catalan) is the stadium of FC Barcelona and, with the capacity of 99,354 seats, the biggest football stadium in Europe. The need to build the stadium arose as Barcelona's previous stadium, Les Corts, grew in popularity while having very limited room for expansion. Initially...
	Palau Sant Jordi	The Palau Sant Jordi is a covered stadium belonging to the Olympic Ring located on the Montjuïc mountain in Barcelona. Together with other sports venues, such as Stadium Lluis Companys and Bernat Pools Picornell, it was built for the 1992 Summer Olympics.The stadium, designed by the Japanese archite...
	Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art	The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, popularly known as MACBA, is located in the Raval district of Barcelona. It was inaugurated in 1995 in the building of the House of Charity. Its origins date back to 1959, when the art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer together with Cesareo Rodriguez Aguilera...
	Las Arenas in Barcelona	For many years Las Arenas has been one of the most important arenas in Barcelona. Designed by the architect August Font i Carreras and built on the initiative of Josep Marsans, it replaced the Turin's Square which space had been outgrown by the local businesses. Las Arenas, costructed in the Neo-Mu...
	Barcelona Pavilion	The Barcelona Pavilion was first designed as the German Pavilion for the International Exposition in Barcelona by Mies van Der Rohe, the great representative of modern architecture. In 1930, the original Pavilion was took apart after the Exposition was over; however, in 1983 a group of Catalan arc...
	Caixa Forum - Casaramona Factory	Casaramona Factory is a modernist building located on the Montjuic Mountain built by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch between 1909 and 1912. Since 2002 it has been the headquarters of Caixa Forum, a multidisciplinary centre which aim is to promote culture. It is owned by La Caixa, one of the l...

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