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Gran Teatre del Liceu
Rambla dels Caputxins 51-59
Barcelona
Catalunya
93 485 99 00
Type: Performing Arts Venue
Addmission Fee: Guided tours at 5.50 Euro , non-guided tours 3.5 Euro
Hours: open daily for one guided tour at 10 am, non-guided tours begin at 11:30, 12 and 1
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Barcelona
Catalunya
93 485 99 00
Type: Performing Arts Venue
Addmission Fee: Guided tours at 5.50 Euro , non-guided tours 3.5 Euro
Hours: open daily for one guided tour at 10 am, non-guided tours begin at 11:30, 12 and 1
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The next stretch spans from Placa de Boquería to Carrer dels Escudellars. From there, Carrer de Ferran, between the lovely McDonald’s and Burger King, cuts the main thoroughfare through the Barri Gòtic.
Past it is the entrance to the Placa Reial and across the street the newly remodeled Gran Teatre del Liceu, the pride of Barcelona’s opera set. The theater was built in 1848 in the Italian style after a monastery that claimed the site was destroyed in a fire and with its inauguration hailed as Europe’s largest opera house.
The site didn’t fare any better in the ensuing years, though. Fires have decimated the opera house on three different occasions, first in 1861 when the auditorium was destroyed, again in 1893 when anarchists bombs exploded in its stalls and the last in 1994 when all but the exterior walls, foyer, staircase and one banquet hall went up in smoke.
After extensive restorations the theater reopened in 1999 looking almost as it had when it was first built, albeit three times the size and with a state-of-the art sprinkler system installed. Paying to see the opera is not necessary as guided tours show off the immaculate space, including a number of halls that have survived from the earliest days.
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