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Palau de les Heures

Spain · 19th century

Founded
1898
Style
Eclectic architecture
Architect
August Font i Carreras
Heritage status
Cultural Asset of Local Interest
Location
Montbau
Coordinates
41.43684°, 2.1413°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Palau de les Heures in Spain
Photo: Joandrés · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Palau de les Heures («palace of the ivies» in Catalan), also known as Casa Gallart, is a palace located in the Horta-Guinardó district of Barcelona. It was built between 1894 and 1898 by the architect Augusto Font Carreras. At present it is the seat of the Fundación Bosch i Gimpera for postgraduate university studies, and it is integrated into the Mundet Campus of the University of Barcelona.

Machine-translated from “Palau de les Heures” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Palau de les Heures ranks #6,779 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #294 of the 646 mapped in Spain. Founded 1898, one of 782 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. 14 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Barcelona, 7 km away. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.

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