Location: Sant Pere, La Ribera, La Ciutadella and Barceloneta

Address: Sant Francesc de Paula 2, Barcelona, Spain.

Phone: 93/268-1000

Palau de la Música Catalana One of the world’s best amazing music halls, with facades that are a anarchism of blush and form, the Palau de la Música (Music Palace) is a Barcelona landmark. From its checkered bowl admission windows on the Carrer de Sant Pere Més Alt ancillary to its aerial busts of (from larboard to right) Palestrina, Bach, Beethoven, and (around the bend on Carrer Amadeus Vives) Wagner, the Palau is a baroque bout de force. Designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner in 1908, it is today advised the flagship of Barcelona’s Moderniste architecture. If you can’t appear a concert, booty a bout of the hall, offered circadian at 10:30, 2, and 3 (in English) for 700 ptas./EUR4.21. Admission office: (just off Via Laietana, about a bend from the anteroom itself).