Catalunya 1400

Today’s Palau de la Generalitat combines Gothic, Renaissance and Neo-Gothic elements. The original construction dates from 1403 and made use of several expropriated houses in the Jewish quarter. The master builder Marc Safont was responsible for the courtyard, the chapel of Saint George and the Gothic façade overlooking Carrer del Bisbe.

The artist Pere Blai added the Renaissance elements, including in particular the main façade, considered the first great Renaissance façade in civil architecture in Catalonia.

It is of interest for its gargoyles (Bernat Montaner i Pau Forner, 1598), the Neo-Gothic bridge connecting the Palau to the Casa dels Canonges (1928) and the paintings by contemporary artists like Antoni Clavé, Joan Hernández Pijuan and Antoni Tàpies.

Open Saturdays and Sundays (9 am to 1 pm and 4.30 pm to 7 pm).

• Thanks to a loan by this institution, visitors to the exhibition can admire the following works: the Altar Frontal of Saint George and the Dalmatic from the liturgical vestments kept in the chapel of Saint George, both by Antoni Sadurní and his workshop and Bernat Martorell.