Altarpiece of Poblet with alabaster of Sarral

Alabaster, the light stone

Alabaster or light stone is a translucent stone. The name comes from the ancient Greek and means “stone without handles”, referring to small bottles of perfume of antiquity, as they were small didn’t need handles and were made of this material. A stone that lets in light It was in …

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Park Güell, accès principal

The Park Güell

The urbanization works of Park Güell began in October 1900. Eusebi Güell, one of the most influential men in Barcelona at the time, commissioned Antoni Gaudi to design a garden city like those he had seen in United Kingdom. They were the utopias of the moment. Thus, Gaudi’s and Güell’s …

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