Picasso's Barcelona

Download

Trail photos

Author

danblystone

370 15 12

See more trails from this author

Trail stats

Distance: 3.47 mi
Elevation gain: 138 ft
Technical difficulty: Easy
Elevation loss: 148 ft
Max elevation: 390 ft
TrailRank: 52 5
Min elevation: 164 ft
Trail type: One Way

Moving time: 59 minutes
Time: one hour 4 minutes
Coordinates: 824
Uploaded: March 1, 2020
Recorded: March 2020

Rating
5 1 review
Information
Easy to follow
Scenery

Be the first to clap

1 comment

near Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i La Ribera, Catalunya (España)

Viewed 754 times, downloaded 9 times

Trail photos

Itinerary description

This walk explores the Barcelona of Picasso’s youth. Discover the places he lived, the studios where he painted early masterpieces and the cafes and art galleries that formed his world.

View more external

Waypoints

Porxos d'en Xifré

The Picasso family lived at Passeig d’Isabel II, 4 when they arrived from Malaga.

Carrer de la Plata, 4

In 1896, Picasso’s father rented a studio on the top floor of this building for his 14 year old son. It was in this studio that Picasso painted Science and Charity (1897) at age 15, now in the Museu Picasso de Barcelona.

Plaça de la Mercè

The Picasso family later moved to Carrer de la Mercè, 3, 2n 1ª, which was destroyed to make way for the square in front of La Mercè church.

Carrer d’Avinyó 44

One of Picasso’s most renowned paintings, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is understood to make reference to a brothel on Carrer d’Avinyó in the Gothic Quarter.

Carrer dels Escudellers Blancs, 1 or 2

In 1899, Picasso used a new studio in Carrer dels Escudellers Blancs, situated near Placa Reial.

Birthplace of Joan Miró

Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 10

After his first two trips to Paris, Picasso shared a new studio in 1902 with the sculptor Angel Fernandez de Soto and the painter Josep Rocarol in the Raval neighborhood, roughly across the street from Palau Güell.

Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya (Plaça Nova, 5)

The friezes on the facade of the Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya were created by the Norwegian artist, Carl Nesjar in 1960 from drawings made by Picasso.