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DescriptionSant Gervasi – la Bonanova is a neighborhood in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona, Catalonia. Formerly it was with the neighborhood of Sant Gervasi - Galvany, an independent municipality called Sant Gervasi de Cassoles. Wikipedia
Province: Barcelona
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Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova
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Carrer de Sant Delfí, 11
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The Tamarita gardens are a living example of a private garden assimilated as space and public heritage.
When we cross the gate of the gardens of La Tamarita we enter a Barcelona that transports us to the times when the bourgeoisie built its mansions surrounded by gardens in the upper part of the city.
These gardens are a good place to rest and be quiet away from the noise of the city; They are located just across the wall of stone and wrought iron surrounding the garden, built to preserve a space that was private and is now public.
Tibidabo is a mountain overlooking Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. At 512 metres, it is the tallest mountain in the Serra de Collserola. Rising sharply to the north-west, it has views over the city and the surrounding coastline.
Santa María de Valldonzella is a monastery of nuns of the Order of the Cister. The Cistercians emerged in 1098, as a branch of the Benedictines, in the monastery of Cîteaux or Cister (Burgundy, France), with the purpose of living according to the Rule of Saint Benedict in all its purity. Soon, especially because of the strong spiritual personality of St. Bernard (1090-1153), abbot of Claravall, great mystic, preacher of great prestige and author of many works of monastic spirituality and theology, the Cistercians (called white monks) proliferated around all Europe.Valldonzella has been, throughout the centuries, an itinerant community, because a series of circumstances have caused the nuns to have to move several times from one place to another.After some preludes, dark as all the beginnings, the community Santa Creu d'Olorde (near Vallvidrera) was constituted on November 4, 1237, for the donation made by the Bishop of Barcelona of the Church of Santa Creu d'Olorde to a community of nuns who followed the Rule of San Benito. Already formed the Cistercian community, the year 1259, the war conflicts of King Jaime I with the Catalan nobles forced the nuns to take refuge in Barcelona and, when they could return to the monastery, Bishop Arnau de Gurb, so that they would live more protected, not He wanted them to reside more in an unpopulated place. Then a new monastery near the Creu Coberta was built outside the city walls, thanks to the help of the faithful to whom the bishop granted indulgences if they helped the community. The situation of the monastery and the monastic observance of the community meant that, in the fourteenth century, the kings and the court, when entering or leaving Barcelona, often stayed in Valldonzella. It was even in Valldonzella where in 1410, King Martí l’Humà died. In the seventeenth century, this monastery was destroyed in the War of the Reapers. In the seventeenth century, the nuns went to reside at the Priory of Natzareth, inside the city, near the portal of St. Antoni of the wall. This other monastery was burned during the Tragic Week of 1909 and the nuns were charitablely welcomed by the Manuel Valls i Martí family at the Torre dels Pardals, in La Sagrera.After this fact, Abbess Esperanza Roca i Roca, advised by the director Spiritual community, the future Bishop Torras y Bages, undertook the construction of the new monastery, the current one. In 1913, the community was able to live in the new monastery, although the church could not be finished and consecrated until 1922. The current building is the work of the architect Bernardí Martorrell i Puig, in the most modern style of the time, currently called "Catalan modernism." It is a style reminiscent of medieval art. It appears in the era of romanticism, in the second half of the nineteenth century, and has its greatest splendor at the end of the century and the beginning of the twentieth century.It shows many of its elements and especially the church, scaffolding, like all the rest of the monastery, with exposed bricks, which gives the exterior a certain Mudeixar air, as it happens in some other manifestations of the time of modernism, which apply very varied resources.The church is of general gothic but imaginative intention (for example: in the windows with stained glass windows and the interesting ornamental reinforcements of the cruise arches) and has a perfectly gothic structure and mechanics (you only need to see the cruise ship and the central nave). Together, it has a very large architectural and decorative force.
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