The grand tour of Barcelona

El Paseo de Gracia is the avenue par excellence of the city. The place where the rising bourgeoisie of the Belle Epoque was in its carriage rides and where good-looking girls did their catwalk prenupial. It is a place with history which remains the heart of the city of rank and therefore more expensive per square meter of the city belongs to him even in times of crisis. Still, to understand the Paseo de Gracia must go back to the early nineteenth century, when Barcelona was still corseted by walls and surrounded by a plane which dawned farmhouses surrounded by fields that looked like a garden. Its boundaries were not going far beyond those walls. Leaving the site of the Angel began the way the neighborhood of Gracia, which looked at the back like a handful of popular houses. Around 1824 there was talk of building a ride with a good grove somewhere outside walls. Building on that road, it was a busy place due to nearby sources. To start with five rows of trees planted. The central path was to walk and circulated on the sides of carriages and wagons. 

By 1840, the ride would become a major entertainment centers and amusement of the locals, or while the natural route of communication between the grace which grew and became independent from Barcelona in 1850. There were people at all times, with heavy traffic of cars and up and down steps. On both sides of the ride grew like mushrooms picnic areas, cafes, gardens, theaters and attractions of all kinds. In 1860 when the government of Isabel II imposes Cerdà's plan to urbanize the plain beyond the walls, the role of the walk is already structured flat. Although time and real estate speculation have nothing left of that original paradise.

A sample of the mess in the regulation observed in the Paseo de Gracia where there are no houses alike. Although it is true that this tour was a pioneer of modern urbanization and around him were the first houses of the expansion, but that seemed so impossible task eyedropper fill the large space between the old town and the village of Gràcia. But sooner or later the rich Barcelona true palaces were built and started the great migration, leaving behind the old dark palaces of St. Pere district to take appropriate modern mansions to modern times. The first generations of the School of Architecture of Barcelona, ​​founded in 1875, will find this clientele eager to change the future foundation of modernist architecture. With which, even today, walking along the Paseo de Gracia is a walk in the Catalan Modernism.

From banks to its lamps, to almost every building of the promenade, this avenue is a perfect compendium of Catalan architecture of the end of the century. Case of the plain apple of discord between Consell de Cent i ride itself, which not only makes Domenech i Montaner's Casa Lleo Morera (1905), attached to it but found the house Amatller (1900) early work Puig i Cadafalch. Beside the house there Ametller Batlló House, Gaudí (1905-1907), blocks up the unmistakable Yunas Casa Milà or La Pedrera.

Passeig de Gracia and Rambla de Catalunya parallel have become two of the most important backbones of the city of Barcelona. Art, culture, history, and of course live trade on these two streets really major, converted for many years in undisputed symbol of the city. Some of the most prestigious international firms as well as some of the most renowned shops in Barcelona are spread over these two excellent rides where there have been some of the ideas and most impressive commercial projects in the city. Talk through it all. 

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