Romanesque to Miro to Opera and Flamenco! October 16

Around noon we took the Barcelona Bus Turistic for the second day and rode to the top of Montjuic to see two distinct museums at the opposite spectrum of art, the Museum of9 National Art of Catalunya and the Foundation Miro.

The Museum of National Art of Catalonia has the world's best collection of Romanesque paintings and sculpture, mostly from chapels in the Pyrenees. The Museum itself is a beautiful building with several collections, but we mainly saw the Romanesque and some of the Baroque and Renaissance.

View from the National Museum was fantastiic.

 

National Museum of Catalonian Art

 

End of the 11th and beginning of the 12th century

 

Circa 1220

 

Altar from the XII century

 

From a cloister of St. Peter, XII century

 

Middle of the XII century

 

Circa 1200

 

Middle of the XII century

 

Foundation Miro, 20th century

 

 

 

After the Miro, we hopped back on the Bus Turistic and rode around Barcelona until we arrived back near our hotel. We changed clothes and walked to the Neyras Restaurant six blocks south of our hotel where we were meeting our friends for dinner.

Plaza Catalunya

Dinner was delicious. Our friends had the cod baked in salt (which we had in Marbella) and we had the fresh tuna, very good also. After dinner we walked across the street to the Catalan Music Palace for Opera and Flamenco at 9:30.

 

 

Opera and Flamenco, "Story of Love" was the show we attended at the Catalan Music Palace, a wonderful, historic concert hall, built between 1905-1908 and a UNESCO World Heritage site. The performance was outstanding, wonderful Flamenco dancing and terrific solos of well-known operatic numbers, Carmen, Il Traviata... .

 

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