Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera, Spain
Castle of the Three Dragons
Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera, Spain
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The Castle of the Three Dragons, located in the Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera district of Barcelona, is a modernisme building designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner and constructed between 1887 and 1888. Originally built as a café-restaurant for the 1888 Universal Exposition, the structure exemplifies the eclectic and Catalan modernist aesthetic of its era. Its distinctive name likely derives from an 1865 play by Serafí Pitarra. Today it functions as a museum and is recognized as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
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- museum building
- Heritage
- Cultural Asset of Local Interest
- Place
- Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera, Spain
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