Barcelona, located at the Mediterranean Sea in the very north of the Spanish coast, is certainly the most cosmopolitan and economically most active city in this country.

        It has always proved its will to be modern, to follow the latest international tendencies or be ahead of them. This is evident especially in its architecture, which so well reflects the general approach to life in this always pulsating city.

        Of course, Barcelona has an old history, and there are monuments of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance periods or still before, but most characteristic is what has been built during the last, say, 100 years.

        Barcelona has been a center of Modernist architecture and is distinguished especially by the works of genial Anton Gaud who together with his great contemporaries gave new and exciting looks to it, but has remained since then at the top of modernity.