By Ferran Garcés The image we have chosen as the header for our article is the cover of the Barcelona-based magazine Mundo Científico, published shortly after a great phenomenon that captivated the world’s attention (1). On that August 30, 1905, the sun disappeared over northern Canada, Spain, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt (2). In Spain, […]
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By Ferran Garcés Last Friday, a piece of ceramic from Torre Bellesguard was turned over, and in doing so, we discovered the unexpected story of an English manufacturer, with a lion and a unicorn in the logo (Alfred Meakin). Today, we will turn over another piece with no less unique history behind it, although, at […]
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By Ferran Garcés The Torre Bellesguard gathers a series of fabulous animals that form a symbolic bestiary of their own, as often happens in modernist buildings and especially in Gaudí’s work. In other posts, we have already talked about them (link). Today we want to add a couple more that, for a long time, remained […]
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