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The arts centre’s core theme is the city and urban culture.
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona is an arts centre in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Art from the second half of the twentieth century to today. Smart-phone app with free audio guides.
Museum of Illusions Barcelona
A museum of more than 30 room-sized, hand-painted 3D murals built on forced perspective: visitors stand on marked spots and appear to hang from a dragon's jaw or teeter over a painted canyon. Photography is the point of the visit.
Museum dedicated to erotic and sensual works. A huge tourist trap. The tour is not worth it, unless you wish to see old paintings of the Kama Sutra. The only interest is the huge phallus in the hallway, which makes for funny pictures.
This narrow street, that starts in the Plaça del Pi has a very special atmosphere. It is famous because of its chocolate shops, where you can drink a hot chocolate since the 18th century. It has also very important art galleries (Sala Parés, the place where Picasso made a dedicated exposition for the first time). You can enter for free and see, if you are lucky, nice expositions. The street is decorated with flagstones that represent scenes of a modernist book called L'auca del senyor Esteve, by Santiago Rusiñol, which is a critic to the bourgeois society of that time and that he had to live.
Large pedestrian walkway with many new and stylish shops to browse in.