Showing posts with label Terrassa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terrassa. Show all posts

Sunday, November 22, 2015

"Minyons de Terrassa" reach the Sky!!!



Never, no gang of Human Towers Builders had been able to raise the Human Castle called «4 de 10» (Ten flats high, and four persons in every flat).
This morning, the «Minyons de Terrassa», one of the best gangs of Catalonia, have achieved this victory.
Joy has exploded in the «Plaça Vella» of Terrassa. The «Old Square» of Terrassa, where this group of young and old men, and women, and children, and grandfathers, and grandmothers, of Terrassa... have reached their goal.

Day after day, this gang usually assay a series of difficult and elaborate Human Towers, a symbol of the power of a People when it works in a coordinated way.

Saturday, May 10, 2014

This weekend, Terrassa is a Modernist Town again.


Today and tomorrow, Terrassa celebrates its Modernist Fair. The people of the town get dressed in vintages clothes. Wherever you walk, you find expositions, gadgets, shows, performances, traditional trade, crafts... The city gets full of people as if it was the town's festival. 
Terrassa has a lot of Modernist Houses, little palaces built in the style of Antoni Gaudi. One of the pupils of Gaudí was Lluís Muncunill, the Architect of the Masia Freixa, one of the most beautiful designs of the city.
















Museu de la Ciència i Tècnica de Catalunya (Terrassa)


                                           Museu de la Ciència i Tècnica de Catalunya (Terrassa)



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