Palau Reial de Pedralbes
Palau Reial de Pedralbes, or the Royal Palace of Pedralbes, is built within an ample garden, and it has a clear royal purpose: from 1919 to 1931 and again since 1975, it has served as the official residence for the Spanish royal family when they visit Barcelona. The palace’s roots go back further than its twentieth-century role. It began as the 17th-century Masia de Can Feliu, on land Eusebi Güell acquired in 1872—already associated with the name Torre Güell—when the Finca Güell came together as a roughly 30,000 m² estate. Güell later gave the house and garden to the royal family in 1918, and the transformation into a royal palace took place between 1919 and 1924 under architect Francesc de Paula Nebot i Torrens in a Noucentisme direction. …
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