Palau de la Música Catalana

This guide to Palau de la Música Catalana traces how Barcelona's choral society, the Orfeó Català, commissioned architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner in 1905 for a radical idea: a concert hall built of iron and glass instead of the dark, velvet-lined halls of the era. It follows the three years it took to raise the building and the muses, mosaics and stained-glass dome he filled it with. Look up at the ceiling as you enter, it was built to let the sky in.