Location: Province of Barcelona
Top Things to do in Province of Barcelona
Top Restaurants in Province of Barcelona
Things to do in Province of Barcelona, Catalonia: The Best Monuments & Statues
Barcelona (Catalan: [bəɾsəˈɫonə], Spanish: [barθeˈlona]) is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The province is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea. Its area is 7,733 km². 5,540,925 people live in the province, of whom about 30% (1,621,537) live within the administrative limits of the city of Barcelona, which itself is contained in the Barcelona metropolitan area.
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1. Casa Vicens
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1,893 reviews
Casa Vicens is the first masterpiece of Antoni Gaudi and sowed the seeds of later works. Built between 1883 and 1885 as a summer house for the Vicens family, here he showcased his unparalleled talent. Declared Unesco World Heritage in 2005.
Reviewed By parayreberengere - Perpignan, France
I wanted visit this house for so long that I don't count years anymore. So when I knew it was finally open to public, I didn't hesitate. It's really beautiful. The style of the architecture is very different of the others Gaudi's buildings (less art nouveau and more moorish). The facades are full of details (sculptures, earthenwares, ironworks,...). The interior is just as amazing. I took the first visit of the morning, so there were few people. It was more pleasant because rooms are small. And it's better too if you want take photos without tourists in the middle :) If I should say something negative, I would say the garden is really small, mostly thinking about what it was at the begenning. But despite of this, it is all the same nicely maintained. So if you have the opportunity, come to visit this house. It's worth it !!!
2. Monestir de Sant Pere de Casserres
3. Monumento al Principito
4. Anis del Mono sculpture
5. Pasifae
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 78 reviews
Reviewed By Berni_Barbablanca - Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain
This sculpture dominates the town's beach and is a popular spot for families, walkers, lovers and fishermen. The sculpture is set on a breakwater some metres into the sea. On a calm day you can easily visit it without getting wet. However, on a day when the sea is choppy it is a spectacular sight as waves break against the jetty and spray showers the sculpture. If you are taken in by the horns and imagine the creature depicted in the sculpture to be a bull (as many tourists do) you may be totally puzzled by the figure within the animal. However, the name of the sculpture gives the game away. It is called Pasiphaë. If you know your Greek mythology you will know that she was the wife of King Midas. The king upset the sea god Poseidon and for punishment the god made Pasiphaë fall madly in love with a spectacular white bull. The bull, however, was obviously not attracted to a human female. So, she had Daedalus (the inventor and father to Icarus) construct an artificial cow and hid herself inside it in order for her passion to be consummated. The resulting child of this brief encounter would be the minotaur. A combination of the abstract, the mythological and the figurative, the sculpture is well worth a visit.
6. El Pi d'en Xandri
7. Monumento Centenario Pau Casals
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4.0 based on 4 reviews
8. Monumento a Santiago Rusinol
9. Monument a El Greco
10. Monumento a Manuel Mila i Fontanals
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