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.

BARCELONA, Spain. Monument "A Frederic Soler (Pitarra)"

Pla del Teatre.

Monument A Frederic Soler (Pitarra).

The playwright Frederic Soler i Hubert (Barcelona, ​​1839-1895), better known by his pseudonym, Serafí Pitarra or, simply, Pitarra, is considered the founder of Catalan theater. The pedestal, in Modernist style, on which the sculpture, made in 1906 by the artist Agustí Querol (Tortosa 1860 - Madrid 1909), is located, is the work of the architect Pere Falqués (Sant Andreu de Palomar, Barcelona, ​​1850 - Barcelona 1916). The monument was inaugurated on 26 December 1906.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

BARCELONA, Spain. Mural. Street Art

Carrer Nou de Sant Francesc.

Mural on metal doors signed by SiBeriana (Anna Patrusheva).

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

GIRONA, Spain. Balconies of Casa Ribas i Crehuet

Carrer de la Força No. 6.

The Ribas i Crehuet House, in the Noucentista style, with a ground floor and four floors, was built between 1926 and 1928 according to the project of the Catalan architect Rafael Masó i Valentí (Girona, 1880-1935). On the first floor of the building, these two curved balconies with baluster railings stand out, separated by a column on which you can see a plaque with the name of the architect and, below, a floral decoration and the inscription of the date of completion of the work in Roman numerals (MCMXXVIII, i.e. 1928). Below the balconies you can see the top of the basket-handle arch where the main entrance to the house is located. The building was rehabilitated in 2004, and is part of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

GIRONA, Spain. Casa Miquel Gómez

Casa Miquel (or Miguel) Gómez.
Facade over the Onyar River.

This is a modernist building conceived by the Catalan architect Rafael Masó i Valentí (Girona, 1880-1935), built in 1914. Part of the house had to be demolished in 1916 to be able to build the passage also called Miquel Gómez, which gave access to the bridge over the Onyar River of the same name (Pont de Gómez, also known as Pont de la Princesa or Pont de la Creu Blanca). In the image you can partially see the railing of the bridge.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

GIRONA, Spain. Casa Sarrà

Carrer de Barcelona, 25.

Casa Sarrà.

Casa Sarrà, in a Noucentista architectural style, is the work of the Catalan architect Josep Esteve i Corredor (Girona, 1896 - 1965), who in 1928 planned the renovation and extension of an existing building, owned by Marià Sarrà. On the ground floor, the access openings to the street are semicircular arches with lateral columns. On the first floor there is a tribune and two balconies with stone balustrades, while the balconies on the other two floors have Art Deco style iron railings. The façade has a light-colored coating with three horizontal decorative stripes formed by bricks and sgraffito floral motifs. The building has a height of 70 meters.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

GIRONA, Spain. "Contra l'invasor" sculpture

Jardí de la Infància.

Contra l'invasor.
[Against the invader]

This sculpture is a bronze reproduction of the original, made of plaster in 1891 by the Catalan artist Miquel Blay i Fàbregas (Olot, 1866 - Madrid, 1936), which is kept in the Girona Art Museum. The young man, naked, in an aggressive attitude with a broken spearhead in his hands, represents the heroism of the inhabitants of the city against the invaders of Napoleon's French army, when, with 18,000 men, they besieged Girona for the third time on the 6th May 1809 and they maintained the siege of the city until they had to capitulate, due to disease and hunger, on 12 December of the same year. It is estimated that around 10,000 people died during the siege. Girona remained in French power until 10 March 1814.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 03.2024.

CASTELLÓ DE LA PLANA, Spain. Benches

Parc Ribalta.

Ribalta Park began construction in 1869 according to a project by the architect and urban planner Luis Alfonso Brull and was expanded in 1876. In addition to other artistic elements, the ceramic benches stand out, built between 1927 and 1930 and restored in 2002. They are formed for ceramic tiles of 20 x 20 and 15 x 15 cm.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2023.

CASTELLÓ DE LA PLANA, Spain. Bell tower of the church of Sant Vicent Ferrer

Plaça del Fadrell.

Bell tower of the church of Sant Vicent Ferrer, built during several periods from its foundation, as a temple of a convent, in 1579. During the long process of construction and remodeling of the building, a mixture of styles was produced, but the predominant ones were the Baroque and Neoclassical. The current building is from 1835. The bell tower is older, it was built between 1661 and 1688.

Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2023.