place

Hotel Majestic (Barcelona)

Catalan building and structure stubsEuropean hotel stubsHotel buildings completed in 1918Hotels established in 1918Hotels in Barcelona
Spanish companies established in 1918
Hotel Majestic Barcelona
Hotel Majestic Barcelona

Majestic Hotel & Spa in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain is a hotel located on 68 Passeig de Gràcia in the Eixample district. It is located not far from Gaudí's La Pedrera and about one kilometre from La Rambla. It has existed as a hotel for more than 100 years and is currently owned by the Soldevila family. It is part of the Majestic Hotel Group, which has 3 more hotels in Barcelona: Murmuri Hotel, Hotel Midmost, and Denit Hotel. There is also one hotel in Palma de Mallorca, the Sant Francesc Hotel. Operating as a hotel since 1918, it was originally called Majestic Hotel Inglaterra until it was renamed in 1940 to Hotel Majestic. Famous events and celebrities passed by the hotel, for example Antonio Machado spent his last days in Spain at the hotel before going to Collioure, France. Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Charles Trenet, and Ernest Hemingway were also guests at the Majestic. One of the most notable guests was the queen Maria Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Hotel Majestic (Barcelona) (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Hotel Majestic (Barcelona)
Passeig de Gràcia (lateral Besòs), Barcelona

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Website External links Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Hotel Majestic (Barcelona)Continue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 41.393405555556 ° E 2.1639472222222 °
placeShow on map

Address

Majestic Hotel & Spa

Passeig de Gràcia (lateral Besòs) 68-70
08001 Barcelona
Catalonia, Spain
mapOpen on Google Maps

Website
hotelmajestic.es

linkVisit website

linkWikiData (Q615575)
linkOpenStreetMap (650740748)

Hotel Majestic Barcelona
Hotel Majestic Barcelona
Share experience

Nearby Places

Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə βəˈʎːo]) is a building in the center of Barcelona. It was designed by Antoni Gaudí, and is considered one of his masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been refurbished several times after that. Gaudí's assistants Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, Josep Canaleta and Joan Rubió also contributed to the renovation project. The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), as it has a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It is located on the Passeig de Gràcia in the Eixample district, and forms part of a row of houses known as the Illa de la Discòrdia (or Mansana de la Discòrdia, the "Block of Discord"), which consists of four buildings by noted Modernista architects of Barcelona.Like everything Gaudí designed, Casa Batlló is only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, has unusual tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work. There are few straight lines, and much of the façade is decorated with a colorful mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís). The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudí's home), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon. In 2005, Casa Batlló became an UNESCO World Heritage Site among the other Works of Antoni Gaudí, and is visited by people from around the world.