While walking through Placa de Catalunya and down Passeig de Gracia, we were able to see how the architecture from the past is very present in today’s city of Barcelona. In the first photo, the windows relfect the gothic style, from the 13th Century. These windows would likely be seen in a castle that was built during this time. Additionally, this building shows that the most important rooms were on the principle floor. This is evident due to the fact that those windows are made out of stained glass, while the rest are made out of regular glass. This represents the ideal that the most important things are on the first floor, like they were in the cassa de taller. The lamps on the streets are curved, with a bench on the bottom and a symbol of Barcelona on the top. This lamp is similar to Gaudi’s architectural style, which is seen throughout the city of Barcelona. The next building exemplifies what columns look like. The building clearly uses columns around the windows, each made with intricate details. The roof of this building also showed the French styles that are incoroprated in the architecture. The next building uses an Arabic style to create the windows. These windows are similar to the windows being made in the Middle East throughout the late 1800s. It was easy to see the difference between Arabic style and Roman style because the buildings were close to one another and appeared to be designed very differently.
Barcelona Past and Present 