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Barcelona, 17 of July
2003.- The multiple negotiations made by the Gaudí &
Barcelona Club association facing the institutions have given the
result of the re-instalment of the Gaudí street-lamp, completely
restored and lacking it only to be painted, to light again. The
municipality of Barcelona employees placed yesterday, at last, the
16th of July, 2003, the street-lamp in its pedestal in the Pla de
Palau, after eight endless months of reconstruction.
The Gaudí &
Barcelona Club association became interested from the very beginning
for the state of the street-lamp. Xavier Pigrau, from the Department
of Architecture of the Town Hall, told that the delay was caused
because of the street-lamp was being repaired in an craftsman workshop
out of the city, by the difficulty of its reconstruction. Pigrau
communicated personally yesterday the association the re-instalment
of the street-lamp.
The architect of the
Sagrada Familia had designed in 1878 two different models of street-lamps,
having 3 and 6 arms respectively, under commission of the municipality
of Barcelona. The six-armed ones were placed in the Plaza Real and
the two three-armed ones were installed in the Pla de Palau, till
last 20th of November a lorry of BCNeta (the municipal garbage service)
struck against one of them, causing several and grave harm to it.
About the "Gaudí
& Barcelona Club d'Internet" association
The Associació
Gaudí & Barcelona Club d'Internet is a non-profit entity
created to divulge the life and work of Antoni Gaudí. The
starting point of this association was the creation, in 1997, of
the Club under the web page www.gaudiclub.com, to which the more
than the 12.700 present members, from all nationalities, have been
freely associated and are permanently informed of everything related
with Gaudí. The Gaudí & Barcelona Club web page
is the most complete existing about the architect. It disposes of
an on-line shop, where it can be purchased any product related with
the gaudinist aesthetics, and of an active forum where the admirers
of the architect hold a fluid correspondence. In its will to make
culture move and to divulge the figure of Gaudí throughout
the world, the Club is in touch with a great deal of people passionate
of the art of this creator and collaborates with universities, art
centres, institutions and cultural associations of several countries,
offering its collaboration and experience.
More information about
the Gaudí's
lampposts for the city of Barcelona
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