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"Sometimes I was afraid to come here. Everything was as it looks. I had a small room above that used to sleep and a bathroom next door. The rest of the house occupied by their collections, such as. It was like living in a museum. round table " In fact, it is a museum that is now the home of Manuel round table Rocamora round table unpalauet Elizabethan Putxet located in the district of Barcelona, his foundation also Rocamora. A house museum.
The great-uncle Eduard Rocamora, Mr. Manuel Rocamora bourgeois Enlightenment, traveler, amantimecenes artists, devoted most of his life collecting objects: Qur'an ceramics, painting, clothing, drawings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ... "Many of the pieces did not know how to achieve," explains besnebot current director of the foundation.
"The part of the house is the sign that travels Pablo Picasso created for Els Quatre Gats, is now a exposicióaMadrid" says Eduard against round table the model that the sculptor Rafael Atche used to build the 'Columbus statue, a piece that very few know it exists.
The house is for Isabel Rocamora Valles and Laura Shepherd Headquarters Official round table Holiday round table Special, an initiative promoted by these two historians whose main objective open to the public and raise awareness houses, palaces and cultural organizations, mostly private, with a high heritage and culture.
The project, which began in 2010, allows you to visit a dozen homes in the city of Barcelona and six more the rest of Catalonia. "The project arises from the experience of working together round table for five years in the house Amatller building round table a lot of content and cultural heritage that made us see the importance of introducing these houses and convince society that it worthwhile visit me the "explained Laura and Elizabeth.
Gradually, the promoters of this initiative was to thread the needle. The result gives the visitor a unique experience: the opportunity to learn from some corners of the least known jewels of Barcelona, Catalonia, many of which are still inhabited by the owners, two historians who, every day, filled content of their routes. Yes, do it in the form of small groups visiting London for concerted style as little as possible to disturb the inhabitants.
Roche is Amelia who made it possible to open the doors of Bellesguard tower, a building designed by Antoni Gaudi built on the ruins of the old castle of Martin the Humane, the last king of the House of Barcelona Barcelona, lived until his death in 1410 In the early twentieth century, Mary Sagués commissioned Gaudi to build him about these ruins his summer round table residence. Antoni Gaudi, captivated by the story of Bellesguard recreated a medieval castle inspired. "The balcony was very typical of Gaudí and modernism. Used to see the unseen caller at the door. If the visitor is not interested, it did ignore round table the call. If you are on the lookout, no one can see you from the outside, "says Amelia pointing ambcolumnes built space decorated with mosaic.
One of the most spectacular rooms in the tower are Bellesguard the attic, a place with excellent acoustics that served as a music room. The space evokes the magnificent ceiling brick modernist cooperatives. round table "This was the last project before starting construccióde Gaudi Sagrada Familia, and here he experimented with some laps later he moved to the temple," says Anna Mollet family member.
Convince Amelia to open their home, where lives one of his daughters and grandchildren, was not easy. "We go very slowly, until they feel safe and see that everything is done with great respect and rigor," say the promoters Holiday Special. "We close collaboration agreements with all the houses, always with the assumption that the visits are made with reservation round table and scheduling every week," they say.
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