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The city's
Museu del Rock
is a “greatest hits” collection of gold records, musical instru-
ments, stage clothes and music-history ephemera, from Spanish rockers and international
superstars alike. We're talking Elvis, Beatles and the Rolling Stones, rather than any great
coverage of the contemporary music scene. Still, if you ever wondered where Elton John's
bathtub had got to…
Casa de la Papallona
C/de Llança 20 • No public access • Espanya
It's worth walking around the Arenas de Barcelona and craning your neck up to the top of
the six-storey Casa Fajol, universally known as the
Casa de la Papallona
(1912). The work
of architect Josep Graner i Prat (1844-1930), it's crowned by a huge ceramic butterfly (
pap-
allona
) made using the favoured
modernista
technique of
trencadís
, or broken coloured tiles
formed to make a picture.
