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Barcelona tours - The Barcelona avant-garde: Picasso, Miró, Dalí­

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Following his role in the purchase of 200,000 ants for Buñuel’s deranged short film, Un chien andalou, in 1930 Dalí­ gave a bizarre anti-speech at the conservative Catalanist cultural elite’s down-town Barcelona club in which he described paranoia as a method, the surrealism as a revolution in the moral order, and a playwright ex-president as a monstrous pig, a pederast, an immense putrefied hairyness.

This walk introduces you to artistic Barcelona in the 30-odd years that it took to deteriorate from the relative calm of the mid-1890s to the break down of society in the pre-war period. You’ll see (and in some cases enter) artists’ homes, schools, galleries and drinking holes, and you’ll get to understand some of the context in which they got up to such extraordinarily weird shit.

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Basic data
Grade easy
Base Barcelona
Location tags Barcelona, Barrio Gótico, Born, Catalonia, Gothic Quarter,
Theme tags architecture, art, gastronomy, history, literature,
Your guide Mr Baldie
Walking distance 3.50 km / 2.17 miles
Walking time, excluding breaks 1.75 hr
Total return travel time from base to walk 0 hr
Total time from "hello" to "goodbye" 2.01 hr
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