Solor Tours Barcelona

16/04/2020

16/04/2020

Temple day.

16/04/2020

Temple day

03/04/2020

31/03/2020

Born to be happy !

29/03/2020

While Sars2-cov19 is bringing havoc around the world, we are enhancing our world history knowledge. Wissen IST Macht .

17/03/2020

08/03/2020

Elisenda of Montcada was queen consort of James II of Aragon. They founded the Franciscan monastery of the Poor Clares in of Pedralbes.

07/03/2020

Quid infantes sumus ?

06/03/2020

During the civil war , Santa Maria del Mar was devastated . it would burn for 11 days in a row before locals were able to put the fire out. The baroque interior was lost for ever.

05/03/2020

Eusebi Arnau.
Sepultura Carbó, cementerio de Montjuic (1905).

05/03/2020

5th August 1391 violence erupted in the thriving Jewish quarter in the city : the Christian mob murdered and stolen. The few survivors had to convert or flee.

Once at the heart of Catalan intellectual and economic life, the Jewish population of medieval Barcelona became a target for kings and commoners alike

03/03/2020

The city has been often fiercely anti clerical for a number of reasons. Arsonist and anarchist fury would then ravage churches and monasteries. Church was too conservative and unsupportive of social change. Hence the mobbing that took place in the tragic Week of 1909 felt like a fair revolution against the bishops allied with big landowners and absolutists.

02/03/2020

In 1859 Antoni Ravori I Trias won the contest to produce a new plan for the Eixample. Central government in Madrid imposed his own candidate, Cerdà and Rovira's plan was binned. His graceful bell tower still stands in Gracia.

01/03/2020

La Canadenca owned by a Canadian bank, was the most important power plant in the city. A huge strike promoted in 1919 brought Catalonia to a standstill. An 8 hours work day was conceded by the government: an enormous success for the workers movement.

01/03/2020

In the Montjuic Cemetery there is mass grave of the people victim of Franco's dictartoship . Up to 40000 are buried there, most of their names written on the columns.

01/03/2020

Walden 7
Ricardo Bofill - 1975

The name of the building is inspired by B. F. Skinner's science-fiction novel, Walden Two, which depicts a utopian community and itself is a reference to Henry David Thoreau's novel Walden.

01/03/2020

Social Unrest.

29/02/2020

A very rare panot decorating Barcelona streets . Where do you find it ?

29/02/2020

A secret door allowed the passage to the king from the royal place to the cathedral ..

28/02/2020

Sant Jordi (San George) is the patron of Catalonia. His dragon slayer myth is still alive across the city streets. 23rd of April is his day.

28/02/2020

The courtain falls.

28/02/2020

Wilfred the hairy plays a pivotal part in the Catalan mythology,. He was the very first count of Barcelona a proud defender of Christianity from the Moors.

28/02/2020

Casa Vincens
Antoni Gaudi 1883

27/02/2020

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

The wounded Star.
Rebecca Horn - 1992

27/02/2020

The hangman's lodgings. In the middle age nobody wanted the executioner as a neighbour so the wise Consell de Cent assigned to him the smallest house in the city.