Plaça d'Espanya
Grand roundabout plaza with twin Venetian-style towers and a former bullring turned shopping mall.
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This guide to Plaça d'Espanya in Barcelona traces the roundabout's long run as the city's execution ground before its 1925 transformation, when architect Josep Amargós was given four years to turn it into the grand entrance for the 1929 World Exhibition. It follows the fountain shaped by Josep Maria Jujol, Gaudí's collaborator, and the twin brick towers modeled on Venice's bell tower that were meant to be temporary. A round bullring across the square, built in 1900, once hosted bullfights before the sport fell out of favor here.
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