Palau de la Musica Catalana

Before moving here, Bucky bought the Lonely Planet book, Discover Barcelona. I have been making my way through their list of "top experiences" and decided to go for the Palau de la Musica Catalana yesterday! It is a concert hall that was built in the early 1900's by Domenech i Montaner for the Catalan choral society. The building is an amazing mixture of color, light and symbolism. The palau offers guided tours in multiple languages and the cost is 20 Euros for a 55 minute tour. I signed up for the 3pm tour yesterday and joined at least 30 others for a walk through the beautiful space and a quick organ performance. As you can see in the pictures below, the place is stunning. It feels like you are inside of a jewelry box - just magical. Now on my list of things to do is to attend a concert at the Palau de la Musica so that I can see it in action. Looking forward to that!

Each column is unique. Seems like everyone took the same picture!

More columns.

This beautiful stain glass window is in the ceiling of the concert hall. The picture does not do it justice!

A view of the stage. The organ is imported from Germany.

Front row seat.

Some of the muses that make up the back of the stage.

Second floor view.

The stage from the second floor.

Detail of one of the windows.

This is outside of the building - I walked around it after the tour (which was all inside) - I think this may have been a ticket window back in the day.