July 13th, 2009
Madrid’s Blanquerna Centre Cultural
There is every reason to believe that a stay in any of our five-star Madrid hotels will help facilitate the rejuvenation of the mind and body, and maybe even the spirit. Spirits are certainly high here, with a rich array of amenities designed to make your accommodation experience one of international excellence. The highest standards in the industry govern our hotels, to insure that your need for top-class service and luxury are always accounted for. With world-class chefs offering scrumptious dishes with international and local flair, extremely well-informed concierges, and a sense of style that is uniquely Madrid, there are so many reasons to begin your Spanish holiday here. For the business traveler, we have extremely contemporary technologies to help you stay well-connected. For everyone, there is the beauty of one of Spain’s greatest cities right outside your window.
Spain has an excellent reputation for being at the cutting edge of contemporary art, and Madrid has an exquisite history. The Blanquerna Centre Cultural merges both of these, to create an exciting center for art. Blanquerna takes its name from the central character of one of the works by medieval writer Ramon Llul. Ramon Llul was a fascinating person in his own rite, who formulated a mathematical theory merging science, religion, and art, and spent many of his years, with an unfortunate end, as a passionate evangelist. The Center was named for this Majorcan figure because of his contributions to Catalan culture, and the focus here at the center is Catalan art.
The Blanquerna Centre itself is a combination of exhibition space and a bookstore. The exhibition space is a splendidly modern and modest open-air room where works of various disciplines can be shown, although the focus is on visual art. Here, there are fantastic gallery shows featuring some of the most contemporary works of visual art in Spain. The bookstore has over 12,000 books in Catalan, and translations from Catalan into Castellano, that speak about Catalan art in history and in contemporary times, geography, and cooking. The Centre also hosts events focused on Catalan culture in Madrid, such as readings of translations of classical and contemporary works of theatre and poetry. One of the aims of the Centre is to open up this work to a larger audience, so that there can be intercultural exchanges in the form of dialogue between languages.
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