PLAÇA D’ESPANYA

Description

Essentials about Plaça d’Espanya in brief

Plaça d’Espanya is one of Barcelona’s most important and impressive squares. The square at the foot of the local mountain Montjuïc was built on the occasion of the 1929 World’s Fair. With its huge traffic circle, Plaça d’Espanya is one of the city’s most important traffic junctions, where some of Barcelona’s main arteries meet. However, with its fountain in the center and the two Venetian towers and the building of the former bullring on the outskirts, Plaça d’Espanya is also worth seeing from an architectural point of view.

Sights on Plaça d’Espanya

However, Plaça d’Espanya is not only of traffic importance, but also of interest in terms of sights. The square is lined by two Venetian towers, which are already visible from afar and are modeled on Piazza San Marco in Venice. The two 47-meter-high towers mark the beginning of the Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, which leads to the Palau Nacional only a short distance away, which today houses the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC). In front of it is the famous Magic Fountain of Montjuïc.

Another eye-catching building on Plaça d’Espanya is the Arenas de Barcelona. The former bullring has now been converted into a shopping center. By the way, you can take an elevator outside to the upper terrace of the shopping center and enjoy a magnificent view of the surrounding area with the Palau Nacional and Montjuïc from up there.

In the center of the square, a fountain has been created, surrounding the Baroque-style monument called “España Ofrecida a Dios” (which means “Spain consecrated to God”).