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Florence
We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
Tanya Ellison - (27/08/06)

Venice
This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica. We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide. Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)

BARCELONA - New Picasso exhibition

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona which is always worth a visit if you’re planning a Barcelona city break has a new exhibition looking at the great artist’s lifelong fascination with the art and personality of Edgar Degas.

  Picasso Looks at Degas reveals how in Picasso’s youth, contemporaries noted the influence of Degas on his paintings of cabarets and cafés, his portraits, his pictures of women bathing, and of ballet dancers — subjects that had come to define the French artist’s work. When he moved to Paris in 1904, Picasso lived in the same neighbourhood as Degas.

  The Picasso Museum is in every Barcelona tourist guide and it features in one of our Barcelona audio tours – that’s tour of the Ramblas, the Barri Gotic and the Born District.  It’s situated in the pretty Carrer de Montcada.

 The museum was refurbished and updated a few years ago and actually occupies five separate buildings - all former palaces - along this street.  The main entrance is in the Palau Berenguer d'Aguilar, named after the count-king Ramon Berenguer IV who was responsible for laying out the Carrer de Montcada.

  Opposite it is the textile museum, which has a lovely quiet courtyard and a cafe.  The exhibits at the textile museum are interesting - from fabrics with gothic decoration through to 19th century underwear and mantillas – traditional Iberian lace head dresses.  There are also some modern fabrics and fashions.

  Pablo Picasso came to Barcelona as a child when his father was appointed Professor of Fine Arts at the main art school.  He began his studies in the city and started painting here - most of the works in the museum are from his early or blue period and all were created in Barcelona.

  Picasso went to live and work in France in 1904 and spent most of his life there although he made regular trips back to see his family and friends here.  Perhaps there is something essentially Barcelonese about Picasso - creative, rebellious and self consciously different.

 

Picasso Looking at Degas

Picasso Museum, Carrer de Montcada, Barcelona

Until 16th January 2010

 



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