BARCELONA, Spain. Graffiti in door. Street Art

Carrer de Budapest Nº 28.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 10.2024.

BARCELONA, Spain. Shutter. Street Art

Carrer d'Espronceda Nº 348.

Parking.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2024.

BARCELONA, Spain. Shutter. Street Art

Carrer de Bofarull Nº 44.

Physiotherapy office.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2024.

BLANES, Catalunya, Spain. Placard of tiles

Passeig de Mar. Club de Vela.

Jardins Rafael Bataller
Pintor i pioner de la vela
(Blanes, 1920-2013)

[Rafael Bataller Gardens / Painter and pioneer of sailing]

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 06.2024.

BLANES, Catalunya, Spain. Signages

Passeig de Mestrança.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 06.2024.

BLANES, Catalunya, Spain. Benches

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 06.2024.

MADRID, Spain. Statue of Mariblanca (copy)

Puerta del Sol.
Statue of Mariblanca.

The statue on display at Puerta del Sol is a copy of the original, and was installed on 26 March 1985. The original statue was imported from Italy in 1625, and between 1630 and 1838 it crowned the Mariblanca fountain, in Puerta del Sol itself. Later, after the fountain disappeared, it was installed in various places in Madrid, until in 1969 it was moved to Paseo de Recoletos, where it was repeatedly vandalized during the 1980s. Currently, restored, it is placed in the hall of the Casa de la Villa de Madrid, the former City Hall. According to the inscription that appears on the column (photo above), below the relief with the city's coat of arms, it is the goddess Venus, although some chroniclers have identified it with Diana or as an allegory of Faith: it is known as Mariblanca because of the color of the marble in which it was sculpted. There is a second copy of the original sculpture on display at the History Museum of Madrid.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2024.

MADRID, Spain. Manhole

Calle Mayor.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2024.

BLANES, Catalunya, Spain. Balconies

Carrer Ample, 11.

Balconies of the Casa d'Oms.

The Casa d'Oms is a stately building built by a family of landowners in the 18th century. Next to the main balcony, with a wrought iron railing, there is a nichel with an image of Saint Teresa.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 06.2024.

CALDES DE MONTBUI, Catalunya, Spain. Signage

Carrer de Roma.

Noodle factory.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 09.2024.

CALDES DE MONTBUI, Catalunya, Spain. Signage

Carrer de Vic, 20.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 09.2024.

BARCELONA, Spain. Shutter. Street Art

Carrer de Calàbria, 246.

Club del Café Novell.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 04.2024.

LA BISBAL D'EMPORDÀ, Catalunya, Spain. Street lamps

Photos © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

BLANES, Catalunya, Spain. Mural

Plaça dels Països Catalans.

Mural by artist @Bublegum (Tirso Paz Sans) made in 2023.

GIRONA, Spain. Shutter. Street Art

Passeig de José Canalejas, 2.

La Cevechería, Peruvian restaurant.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

VALENCIA, Spain. Mural. Street Art

Plaça Coll.

Author: Barbiturikills (Bárbara Sebastián).

Ya no hay Reyes como los de antes. Acabáramos...
[There are no longer Kings like before. Let's finish...]

Bárbara Sebastián (Valencia, 1972) has a degree in Fine Arts and a Master in Graphic Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). She started making street art in 2010 and shared a studio with the graffiti group XLF.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 12.2022.

VALENCIA, Spain. Mural. Street Art

Carrer de la Puríssima.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 12.2022.

GIRONA, Spain. Political sticker against collaborationism with Israel

Plaça de Catalunya.

BOICOT ISRAEL
Aquesta empresa és còmplice de l'apartheid israelià i col·labora amb el Genocidi de Gaza.
[BOYCOTT ISRAEL
This company is complicit in Israeli apartheid and collaborates with the Gaza Genocide.]

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tina 03.2024.

BARCELONA, Spain. Balcony of the Cases Jaumar

Passeig de Gràcia, 122-124.
Balcony of the Cases Jaumar.

The group that forms the buildings located at the crossroads of Bonavista street and the Passeig de Gràcia gardens was promoted by the brothers Jaumar in 1930. The project, inspired by a Noucentista aesthetic that combines classicist elements, columns, reliefs, balustrades and sculptured ceilings of romantic reference are by the Catalan architect Juli Maria Fossas (Barcelona 1868-1945).

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 10.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Graffiti

Carrer del Guadiana.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 01.2022.

BARCELONA, Spain. Shutter. Street Art

Avinguda Josep Tarradellas.

Pet Center.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 05.2024.

LA BISBAL D'EMPORDÀ, Catalunya, Spain. Sundial

Photo: Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 3.2024.

Carrer de Jacint Verdaguer, 30.

(Source: Patrimoni GENCAT)

This sundial is a modern reproduction of the existing one on the façade of the House of Culture (which can be seen in the second photograph, taken in 2013).

LA BISBAL D'EMPORDÀ, Catalunya, Spain. Public water source

Plaça dels Germans Sitjar.

This public water source was designed by the architect Martí Sureda i Deulovol (L'Escala 1822 - Girona 1890) in 1864, after the arrival of water in the city. He recreates a Gothic window, with three thin columns that support a pediment-shaped entablature, with two lobed arches and the city's coat of arms. The spouts are two lion heads made of ceramic. The source is flanked by a bench covered with La Bisbal ceramic tiles.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

LA BISBAL D'EMPORDÀ, Catalunya, Spain. Torre Maria

Torre Maria.
Carrer de l'Aigüeta, 17-21.

The Torre Maria, in the Noucentista style, was commissioned in 1932 by Ángel Pérez, a Cuban settler in the region, who was the beneficiary of a great inheritance. The building is surrounded by gardens. It is currently owned by the town council and houses municipal offices and a tourist office. In the image you can see the left side façade, with the access ramp to the entrance and a gallery of arches topped by one of the first floor terraces of the building with balustrades.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

VALENCIA, Spain. Mercat Central

One of the rear façades of the Mercat Central (Central Market), seen from the confluence of Plaça de la Ciutat de Bruges and Avinguda de l'Oest.

One of the two towers that flank a rear façade of the market, topped with domes on which are weather vanes in the shape of animals. The building, as a whole, is Modernist in style with eclectic elements and iron architecture. Construction began in 1914 and the works, interrupted, were not completed until 1928: in fact, it opened in November of that year. Four architects participated in its design and construction: first, Francesc Guàrdia i Vial (Barcelona 1880 -1940) and Alexandre Soler i March (Barcelona 1873-1949), and later Enric Viedma i Vidal (Valencia 1889-1959) and Àngel Romaní Verdeguer (Vilanova del Grau, Valencia, 1892 - Valencia 1973). The market, which has an area of ​​more than 8,000 square meters, was rehabilitated between 2004 and 2010.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 12.2022.