City of Barcelona

Barcelona is a Mediterranean city with more than 2000 years of history that has inspired great artistic and social manifestations. In its streets and squares you can see remnants of the Roman past, the medieval splendour that goes from Romanesque paintings from all over Catalonia to the magnificent of the Gothic with large churches and palaces, at one time in the city is an important Mediterranean metropolis. The only city that Don Quixote visits, in Cervantes' masterpiece, he will define the city as a “fountain of courtesy, shelter of strangers, hospice to the poor, land of the valiant, avenger of the offended, reciprocator of firm friendship, a city unique in its location and beauty.”

Barcelona in the twentieth century is a city in conflict, which develops advanced pedagogical projects such as "L'Escola Moderna de Ferrer i Guàrdia", as well as a network of popular schools and athenaeums to bring knowledge to all people. The city also has inspired painters, such as Ramon Casas, Rusiñol, or Picasso who invents Cubism with the painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". And poets like García Lorca, who said of las Ramblas "The only street on Earth that I wish would never end." And the streets that saw how Carmen Amaya revolutionized female flamenco dancing as she broke gender norms and styles of dancing. A Romani woman who placed Flamenco on a global map and transformed the artform forever.

The civil war marks the city, of which George Orwell testifies in his work "Homage to Catalonia" which will be the starting point for his next great works. Besides, the writer Mercè Rodoreda with "La plaça del diamant" portrays the cruel war and the hard post-war times.