The Tàpies Foundation of Barcelona celebrates 25 years

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Tàpies Museum will open its doors free of charge between 18 am and 24 am next Friday, December 11, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its opening, according to the Barcelona institution today.

The public visiting the 11th during those hours at the headquarters of the Foundation can be visited at different exposure routes commented “Tàpies. Collection of the artist” and discover other areas of the center as the file or to attend the concert of Saxon Wolf.

Also, the 25-year catalog of publications of the Foundation, led by Clara Plasencia and Enric Farrés, and the book “Conversation with Manuel Borja-Villel,” by Manuel Borja-Villel, Marcelo Expósito and Jorge Ribalta will be presented.

On December 16, on the other hand, the books “Les arts de l’espace. Écrits interventions et sur l’architecture” will be presented by Joana Masó and David Bestué, and “unfinished Philosophy” by Marina Garces and Xavier Antich.

For the 17th is scheduled the presentation of “The procés llarg. Culture and politics to Catalunya contemporania  (1937-2014)”, with Jordi Amat and Jorge Luis Marzo, and “Bilbao Old Moon” with Joseba Zulaika and Carles Guerra .

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The generosity of Gino Bartali

The Italian champion brings a significant amount for the construction of the Sagrada Familia

Bartali at Tour de France in 1937

“One such Bartali, who seems to be cyclist, has given a major donation. Now you pluck hard. ” Eusebio Güell de Sentmenat, grandson of the patron of Antoni Gaudí, recounts the scene that he lived in his early twenties and his father, then treasurer of the construction of the Sagrada Familia, became excited home. “At that time the building of the temple was a constant struggle, there was much opposition to that end, including architects,” Guell explains, “and everything depended on donations, which were insufficient. My father did not understand sport, but I knew that I was a good follower of cycling, and explained the donation Bartali excited. ”

But how he brought the flying monk recognized Catholic who used to offer their victories to the Pope? Eusebio Guell explains: “I do not remember exactly how much, but I think it was something like a hundred thousand pesetas, a fabulous figure, undoubtedly an important contribution that made exclaim to my father that this helps the Sagrada Familia experience a turning momentum. ”

Guell estimated that everything must have happened around 1950 and assumes that Bartali had to go through Barcelona “for a career or as a tourist,” and certainly as a pious man who was visited the temple of Gaudí. “He wanted to work and did live up to their potential and their faith, certainly,” he explains.

Bartali, winner of three editions of the Giro d’Italia and Tour two of these separated by ten years (a feat no one has matched), is a legend in Italy. But not only for his sporting achievements, but also for other personal actions that have crossed borders.

In July 1948 the Communist leader Palmiro Togliatti was the victim of an attack, shot in the neck, and hovered between life and death. Bartali, who was in the Tour, received a distress call from the prime minister, Alcide de Gasperi, old friend of Catholic Action. “Gino, help us, Italy is on the brink of insurrection, only say the feat would help us a lot.”

The next day, under a snowfall, the Tour was facing the Alps. Bartali accused a delay of about 20 minutes Louison Bobet. Cannes to Briancon, the Izoard, the Italian prevailed and the news was full and tumultuous meeting of the Chamber of Deputies. In moments of great confusion a voice rose: “Bartali has conquered the stage and is the new leader.”

The next day, in Aix-les-Bains, he won again. On the third day in Lausanne again. Leader Tour lead and practically in his pocket. As explained years later Giulio Andreotti, “say the civil war by a victory in the Tour de France is definitely avoided excessive, but certainly Bartali helped ease tensions.” When Togliatti awoke after surgery on his skull his first words were: “What did Bartali?”.

But still they had to discover more amazing stories of the Florentine rider. The latest, three years after his death, through historical research that revealed the Corriere della Sera. Gino Bartali was part of a network in the region of Pisa who saved more than 800 Jews from deportation between 1943 and 1944. He walked the roads of Tuscany in their training and worked with a Jewish accounting of Pisa,
Giorgio Nissim, next to several priests and nuns.

Bartali carrying, hidden in the picture of your bike, photos and documents that were used to produce identity cards. He deposited them in convents, where they had a clandestine press. In 2003, following the discovery of these acts of war, his son Andrea said: “My father never talked about what he did in those years. He said only that in life there are things that are done and just “.

Even without direct intervention came to save lives. In 1943 Antonio Davitti a guard on the island of Elba, was deported to Dachau. A German officer knew of his Tuscan home and asked him if he knew Bartali. Davitti took from his wallet a photo dedicated cyclist. “Give it to me and prepares a list of twenty prisoners, not regret.” Four days later the elected left the camp to be moved to a factory. They had saved his life.

The sporting decline coincided with the glory Bartali and Fausto Coppi, with whom he had epic duels. Coppi Bartali godly against the libertine. Their collaboration to spend a full bottle of water in ascension is a graphic icon of the sport.

A late fifties they shared in the RAI television shows. They even sang a duet with ironic tone. Gino “Ed io ripenso to quel lontano / le lotte nostre sui sui monti and piano / e sulle Alpi … coperte of nevi tempo” and tore Fausto replied: “… come perdevi, eat perdevi” (how you lost).

In September 2013 Israel Bartali named Righteous among the Nations, a booth who helped Jews during the world war recognition.

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Antoni Gaudí where he lived?

Ciutat Vella, Eixample and Gracia were three districts where the architect lived and mark three different periods of his work

Gaudí house Barcelona

When Antoni Gaudí Reus stopped coming to study architecture in Barcelona he moved with his brother to Old City, particularly in the district of San Pedro, Santa Caterina and La Ribera, in 1868. His family, of humble origin, he sold some land so that their children could study and that area was cheaper than they found it.

They were in the Plaza de Moncada number 12 and then moving up close, the street number of the L´Espaseria 10. Both houses next to Santa Maria del Mar, inspired by Gaudi’s architectural background. After lived Verdaguer and Callis street number 16, where an aunt lived and where, just a few years later, they built the Palace of Catalan Music, a symbol of modernist Barcelona. The last of the Old Town is the street where he lived Sant Rafael number 26, on the corner of Rambla del Raval.

During his life in Old City, Antoni Gaudí was a young man who dressed well, going to gatherings organized in different bars and was away from the center of religious life. But once started receiving professional commissions, was changing lifestyle and also district.

Most of his clients were bourgeois and lived in Barcelona’s Eixample district. Then Gaudí decided to move and did so very close to one of the most famous modernist furniture factories of the time. First he lived on the street Consell de Cent 370, and then moved la Diputació street, 339.

Gaudi finally settling in the Casa Rosada Park Guell, a home he shared with his father, who died a year and her niece, who died six years later. When Gaudí was left alone was immersed in the project of the Sagrada Familia and ended up living in the temple workshop atonement until he died.

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La Sagrada Familia began work on top of its central tower in 2016

The basilica place from 23th to 25th October, an open house with sold out tickets

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The chief architect of the Sagrada Familia, Jordi Faulí, planned on Wednesday at the new Creuer Hall of Barcelonian basilica, of the temple designed by Antoni Gaudí, than will be completed in 2026.
In a press conference to show progress in the work of Gaudí, Faulí explained that in 2016 will begin the construction of the upper part of the central towers, namely, that of Jesus Christ, Mary and the four Evangelists.

However, the chief architect stressed that “these central towers begin to be visible only from the outside since 2017, and will end altogether in 2020, still lacking the pinnacles”.
The event was held at the Creuer Chamber of the Sagrada Familia, a new space that is at the basis of what will be the tower of Jesus Christ, so just above the main hall of the building, to be used for purposes explanatory in tourist visits.

Open Day

The Basilica of the Sagrada Familia held from 23 to 25 October open house and for those who have exhausted the 30,000 tickets made available to the citizens free to visit the temple. The planned open day will be organized in different slots between 16 and 20 hours, and the temple has created a video in which emphasizes that begins the work of its central towers.

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