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10th Anniversary: The Values That Drive Us

By: Bellesguard Team Bellesguard remains a great unknown to many, a hidden treasure yet to be discovered. We have taken advantage of our tenth anniversary to explain who we are, what we offer, why we are special, and what makes us unique. Who we are and what we offer: We are a cultural space; Bellesguard […]

10th Anniversary: 3,650 days of architecture, art, history, music, and culture!

By: The Bellesguard Team We are and celebrate culture. In these 10 years, we haven’t stopped doing things, meeting people, and creating synergies. We enjoy being a meeting point, driving exciting projects, lending a hand to talent and drive, and filling Bellesguard with life. It would be impossible to mention all the people who have […]

10th Anniversary: Bellesguard Experience

By: The Bellesguard Team We are celebrating our anniversary, a decade since we first opened our doors to the public. We are very excited to celebrate it with you, and we have been preparing an activity that lives up to our milestone. Special visits, so special, that we have named them the Bellesguard Experience. And […]

You know what? Bellesguard BEFORE Gaudí, chapel and library. Part II.

By: Ferran Garcés Very few parts -and objects- of the original palace have survived, five centuries before Gaudí, that stood in this place. The Christ in the photo is one of them. It was part of an area we will talk about today, the old chapel. A fundamental piece of the palace along with […]

You know what? Bellesguard BEFORE Gaudí, castle and garden. Part I

By: Ferran Garcés In a publication from 1896, “Barcelona a la vista. Álbum de fotografías de la capital y sus alrededores” (Barcelona in Sight. Album of photographs of the capital and its surroundings), we can read: “Today, from the historic castle of Bellesguart, hardly anything remains except the name, written on a heap of ruins, […]

Did you know? Geometry revealed

By Ferran Garcés Antoni Gaudí is considered one of the most influential architects in the history of architecture, not only in the modernist but also in the modern movement. Among his main contributions, we remember his ability to play with the geometric forms of architecture. Today we inaugurate a series of articles to recall some […]

Saint George, a legend made architecture

By: Ferran Garcés This Sunday is the Feast of Saint George, the most special of our festivities. The Bellesguard Tower is closely related to the legend of Saint George. The devotion to this legend began to take shape in Catalonia during the time of Martin I the Humane, who lived in the medieval castle […]

A day like today: Music from another era in another landscape

By: Ferran Garcés The Torre Bellesguard is an ideal place to recreate the past and, at the very least, to feel transported back in time. Perhaps for this reason it has been the setting for different concerts of early classical music, such as the one we want to remember today, which took place in […]

Did you know? Flaixbac Showcase Concerts at Torre Bellesguard

By: Ferran Garcés The history of Torre Bellesguard often leads us to look back, to the past, but we have also learned to enjoy the present, to squeeze the most out of it, and make it happen in the future.The pandemic forced us to stop. We imagined the future we wanted, and we managed […]

Did you know?: Gaudí Nights, the concerts at Antonio Gaudí’s Torre Bellesguard?

By: Ferran GarcésIn previous articles, we have explained how during the first months of the Covid 19 pandemic, Bellesguard got involved with other cultural assets, badly affected by the closure of theatres, cinemas, and concert halls, and created and went ahead with the Festival Premiers Bellesguard. A project based on synergies, in which Bellesguard provided […]

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