Barcelona · Spain

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC)

National Art Museum of Catalonia

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best: morning

contemplative

A local would say...

Romanesque frescoes rescued from crumbling Pyrenean churches — nowhere else outside the churches themselves

From across the city, the bombastic neoclassical silhouette of the Palau Nacional can be seen on the slopes of Montjuïc. Built for the 1929 World Exhibition, it houses a vast collection of mostly Catalan art spanning the early Middle Ages to the early 20th century. The Romanesque frescoes — painstakingly removed from crumbling Pyrenean churches — are extraordinary, rivalling any collection in Europe.