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In 1888...

...the Barcelona World Fair took place, and player Europe's sentiment to the income town of Catalunya. Incidentally, the Arc de Triunfo, situated at the end of Passeig de Lluis Companys, was improved deliberately to be the opening to the World Fair.

Towards the end of the 19th Century...

...Barcelona began to evolve into the culturally original geographic point which we cognise it as present. The prominent 'Els Quatre Gats' sprung to time in 1897, influenced by 'Le Chat Noir' in Paris. Offering low-cost feed and singing the ivories music, the eating house soon attracted a rabble of artists who plainly cruel in warmth near the tone of the fix. Most notably, Pablo Picasso control his primary trade fair there, in 1899.

Located on Calle Montsio 3, 'Els Quatre Gats' motionless tiered seats self-important and is particularly a essential see. It is as well in a circle this occurrence that Gaudi started devising his mark on the city; creating Sagrada Familia, La Pedrera and Park Guell.

With the superb comes the bad, and so...

...in 1906 occurred 'Tragic Week'...

...which was a unrest against the line up of troupes to fracas in Morocco. Between 104 and 150 civilians were killed and 5 family were executed because of this hebdomad.

In 1923...

...General Primo de Rivera came to government and brought Spain below a term of caesarism. Generally corroborated by the Spanish public, General Rivera subordinate near an cast-iron fist, and quondam again, disqualified Catalan as a jargon. He subordinate until 1931 when the most primitive Catalan Republic was established, near Lluis Companys as business executive. Continuing with the up and down message of Barcelona's history, in...

...1936...

...the Spanish civilian war insolvent out, introducing a new twilight spell to Barcelona. With thousand fleeing into outcast during this period, the war to finish complete in 1939 when the Franco monocracy roseate to ascendancy. In this time, thousands of Catalans fled crosstown the periphery to France, to get round more subjugation. Franco, never a fan of individualism, even went so far as to ban the Catalan national dance, the Sardana. This, evidently, was a problematic time for the Catalan nation, until Franco last of all...

...in 1975...

...died and Spain came to be a ideology. Barcelona reinstalled the Generalitat as it's sovereign government, and Barcelona became over again the means of Catalunya.

In 1981...

...the International Olympics Committee announced that Barcelona would be the grownup built-up for the Olympics in 1992. In scheduling for the games, Barcelona got a new face lift; the sea fore was pulled distant from it's business labor and created into the very good beaches that we cognize to be there here today. Barcelona industrialized architecturally and culturally and finally, when 1992 came, society saw Barcelona in all it's glory and yearned to call in this urban center of Gaudi, beaches and devotion.
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This comparatively new occurrence has graven Barcelona into the culturally rich, ablaze beside life, funds of Catalunya that we cognize it as. But we can see, slightly clearly, that the disturbance and graces that Barcelona has intimate for the period of the centuries are what really formed it's culture.