C.W. Post Department of Music

Concert Tour 2006. Spain and France

Long Island University • C.W. Post Campus • School of Visual and Performing Arts

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Agenda for May 22

From the Tour Itinerary

TBA	Breakfast at hotel Walk together to the Palau de la Musica Catalana. The building is a masterpiece of modernist architecture, achieved by Lluis Domenech i Montaner. It is a celebration of tile work, sculpture, and glorious stained glass
TBA	Begin guided tour
TBA	Meet the coach and continue discovery of Barcelona with an Art Nouveau tour of Barcelona’s Eixample district
11:30 a.m.	Continue in Barcelona with an Art Nouveau tour of Barcelona's Eixample district. Visit Antoni Gaudi's Casa Mila (La Pedrera) including the modernista interior of the apartment of the Mila family and the spectacular roofscape of chimneys resembling abstract sculpture. The guided tour will end at the Parc Guell, Gaudi's most colorful creation
Afternoon	Independent lunch Afternoon at leisure for independent exploration and shopping Sites to visit: 1) the Poble Espanyol (Spanish Village) on Montjuic.  Building styles from all over Spain are illustrated by 166 houses arranged on streets radiating from a main square.  Resident artisans produce a wide rang of crafts from around the country; 2) the Royal Palace including the room where Isabel and Fernando received Columbus after his triumphal return from America. It is also where the Inquisition sat, believing the walls would move if lies were told
Evening	Independent dinner

Links

• Current time in Barcelona
• About Barcelona (City Council Web site)
• Weather in Barcelona
• Satellite image of Barcelona at Google Maps
• Interactive Barcelona Map (includes photos of many places the tour will visit today)
• Barcelona Photo Tour
• Palau de la Musica Catalana Web site
• About Lluís Domènech I Montaner (1850-1923). More...
• City visit of the district of L'Eixample in Barcelona
• Casa Mila (La Pedrera). More... Photos...
• Park Guell. More... Photos... Aerial photo...
• Antoni Gaudi. More... Masterworks...
• Poble Espanyol (Spanish Village) on Montjuic
• About Montjuic in Barcelona. More...
• The Inquisition

Notes

• Barcelona is 3839 miles (6177 km) (3336 nautical miles) from New York, NY
• Barcelona hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics. More...
• The tour is currently located is Catalonia, one of the seventeen autonomous communities that make up Spain. Its capital is Barcelona and it contains the provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lléida, and Tarragona. More about Catalonia
• Catalan is a language that originated in Catalonia. It is spoken there and in various places in Spain and France
• La Pedrera means "The quarry" -- a name given to the building because of its appearance

Department of Music
C.W. Post Campus
Long Island University
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, NY 11548
(516) 299-2474
music@cwpost.liu.edu
C. Culver, Chairman