Editing Catalonia (section)

=== Art and architecture ===
{{Main|Art of Catalonia}}
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Catalonia has given to the world many important figures in the area of the art. Catalan painters internationally known are, among others, [[Salvador Dalí]], [[Joan Miró]] and [[Antoni Tàpies]]. Closely linked with the Catalan pictorial atmosphere, [[Pablo Picasso]] lived in Barcelona during his youth, training them as an artist and creating the movement of [[cubism]]. Other important artists are [[Claudi Lorenzale]] for the medieval [[Romanticism]] that marked the artistic Renaixença, [[Marià Fortuny]] for the Romanticism and Catalan Orientalism of the nineteenth century, [[Ramon Casas]] or [[Santiago Rusiñol]], main representatives of the pictorial current of Catalan modernism from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, [[Josep Maria Sert]] for early 20th-century [[Noucentisme]], or [[Josep Maria Subirachs]] for expressionist or abstract sculpture and painting of the late twentieth century.

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The most important painting museums of Catalonia are the [[Teatre-Museu Dalí]] in Figueres, the [[National Art Museum of Catalonia]] (MNAC), [[Picasso Museum, Barcelona|Picasso Museum]], [[Fundació Antoni Tàpies]], [[Joan Miró Foundation]], the [[Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art]] (MACBA), the [[Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona|Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona]] (CCCB), and the [[CaixaForum Barcelona|CaixaForum]].
[[File:Rosassa de la catedral de Solsona.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Rose window]] ([[Solsona Cathedral]])]]
In the field of architecture were developed and adapted to Catalonia different artistic styles prevalent in Europe, leaving footprints in many churches, monasteries and cathedrals, of [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]]<ref>Antoni Pladevall i Font: ''El Romànic català''. A ''El llibre d'or de l'art català''.</ref> (the best examples of which are located in the northern half of the territory) and [[Gothic style]]s. The Gothic developed in Barcelona and its area of influence is known as [[Catalan Gothic]], with some particular characteristics. The church of [[Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona|Santa Maria del Mar]] is an example of this kind of style. During the Middle Ages, many fortified castles were built by feudal nobles to mark their powers.

There are some examples of [[Renaissance architecture|Renaissance]] (such as the Palau de la Generalitat), [[Baroque]] and [[Neoclassical architecture]]s. In the late nineteenth century [[Modernisme|Modernism]] ([[Art Nouveau]]) appeared as the national art. The world-renowned Catalan architects of this style are [[Antoni Gaudí]], [[Lluís Domènech i Montaner]] and [[Josep Puig i Cadafalch]]. Thanks to the urban expansion of Barcelona during the last decades of the century and the first ones of the next, many buildings of the [[Eixample]] are modernists. In the field of [[architectural rationalism]], which turned especially relevant in Catalonia during the Republican era (1931–1939) highlighting [[Josep Lluís Sert]] and Josep Torres i Clavé, members of the [[GATCPAC]] and, in contemporany architecture, [[Ricardo Bofill]] and [[Enric Miralles]].

==== Monuments and World Heritage Sites ====
[[File:Sant-climent-exterior-boi04.jpg|thumb|The Medieval church of [[Sant Climent de Taüll]], located at the foothills of the Pyrenees, in the province of Lleida]]
[[File:Σαγράδα Φαμίλια 2941.jpg|thumb|[[Sagrada Família]], Barcelona]]

There are several [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Sites]] in Catalonia:

*Archaeological Ensemble of [[Tarraco]], Tarragona
*[[Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí]], Lleida province
*[[Poblet Monastery]], [[Poblet]], Tarragona province
*Works of [[Lluís Domènech i Montaner]]:
**[[Palau de la Música Catalana]], Barcelona
**[[Hospital de Sant Pau]], Barcelona
*[[Works of Antoni Gaudí]]:
**[[Sagrada Família]], Barcelona
**[[Park Guell|Parc Güell]], Barcelona
**[[Palau Güell]], Barcelona
**[[Casa Milà]] (La Pedrera), Barcelona
**[[Casa Vicens]], Barcelona
**[[Casa Batlló]], Barcelona
**The [[Church of Colònia Güell]], [[Santa Coloma de Cervelló]], Barcelona province