Palauet Casades Guided Tour

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Barcelona's Eixample district has hidden architectural gems like this palace, a truly unique building in a combination of classical and eclectic styles, dating from the late 19th century. It stands on the corner of Carrer Mallorca and Carrer Roger de Llúria and was the former home of the Casades family. It currently houses the lawyers' association, the Il·lustre Col·legi d'Advocats de Barcelona (Illustrious Association of Lawyers of Barcelona).

The businessman Pau Casades commissioned the master builder Antoni Serra i Pujals to design the Palauet Casades. The building is classical in style with a nod to palatine architecture. It has a rectangular floor plan set around a central courtyard with marble columns. When viewed from the street, its four stories reveal the hierarchy of the different spaces, making it easy to distinguish between the Casades family apartments and the servants' quarters. The bedrooms were located on the first floor and the living rooms, office, dining room and chapel were on the ground floor. Both floors were connected by an imposing, elegant staircase. The decoration of the house is attributed to Eduard Llorens i Masdeu, and the original furnishings are by Francesc Vidal, one of Barcelona's pre-eminent cabinet makers.

During your visit, you'll be able to see one of the Palauet's iconic rooms: the library. Inspired by English libraries, with its wooden stacks and furniture, it specializes in law and social sciences, and, with more than 300,000 books, is considered the most important private law library in Europe.

Tours are on Wednesdays, are one hour long, and are available in Spanish at 11:00, and in Catalan at 12:30.

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