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be at home in some Parisian quarter (although the palm trees wouldn't). The lamp
posts next to the central fountain are Gaudí's first known works in the city.
El Raval
MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA & AROUND
(Macba; Click here ; www.macba.cat ; Plaça dels Àngels 1; adult/concession €7.50/6;
11am-8pm Mon & Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Fri, 10am-8pm Sat, 10am-3pm Sun &
holidays; Universitat) The vast, white Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona is
a temple to contemporary art. Several temporary exhibitions are always going on at
once in this busy gallery, the most important of its kind in the city.
Two blocks southeast of Plaça dels Àngels is an architectural masterpiece from
another age. Founded in the early 15th century as the city's main hospital, the Ant-
ic Hospital de la Santa Creu ( www.bnc.cat ; Carrer de l'Hospital 56; admission free;
library 9am-8pm Mon-Fri, 9am-2pm Sat) today houses the Biblioteca de Catalun-
ya (Catalonia's national library).
Museum
La Ribera
PALAU DE LA MÚSICA CATALANA
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Modernista Theatre
(Palace of Catalan Music; 902 475485; www.palaumusica.org ; Carrer de Sant
Francesc de Paula 2; adult/student & EU senior €12/10; 10am-3.30pm; Ur-
quinaona) The Palau de la Música Catalana is a Modernista high point and World
Heritage Site. It's not exactly a symphony - more a series of crescendos in tile,
brick, sculpted stone and stained glass. Built between 1905 and 1908 by Lluís
Domènech i Montaner for the Orfeo Català musical society, it was conceived as a
temple for the Catalan Renaixença, the cultural Renaissance of the late 19th cen-
tury.
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