Poble Espanyol
Poble Espanyol—*“Pueblo Español”*—is an open-air architectural museum built as a showpiece for Barcelona’s 1929 International Exposition. Designed in a historicist style, it was realized by the architects Francesc Folguera and Ramon Reventós, with the project promoted by the Catalan architect Puig i Cadafalch. The idea drew on an enormous field effort: the team visited over 600,000 sites across Spain to collect building examples and craft a single, unified “Spanish town” from many regional styles. What you enter is a deliberately patched environment. The museum brings together 117 full-scale buildings, replicated from different places in the Iberian Peninsula and joined into a small town-like layout, complete with a theater, restaurants, and artisan workshops, plus a museum of contemporary art. …
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