Two top-level cultural facilities

CaixaForum, the social and cultural centre of the "La Caixa" Foundation, is housed in a former textile mill built in 1911 and designed by the modernista architect Puig i Cadafalch. Following the painstaking restoration of the building, it now hosts a wide variety of interesting cultural activities and exhibitions. It also showcases a rotating exhibition of works from the Foundation's contemporary art collection, one of the most important in Europe . The Pavilion Mies van der Rohe is the germany nacional pavilion designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition is a key reference for the 20th century architecture for its structural simplicity, the creation of free inner spaces and the use of basic and elegant materials, such as marble, glass or iron. You can also see the Barcelona Chair, which Mies van der Rohe created exclusively for the pavilion, as well as the sculpture Dawn by Georg Kolbe. The Fundació Mies van der Rohe is responsible for the preservation of the pavilion since it was rebuilt in 1986.