Olot is a city brimming with art and creativity. The Olot School of Landscape Painting and Olot School of Art are benchmarks in the world of art and design, with a long-running history and great deal of prestige.
What’s more, the city is also renowned for its production of religious art and its pessebrisme (the creation of nativity scenes) - crafts that can be observed in its streets and monuments.
At the same time, Olot is also in the vanguard of architecture, thanks to the RCR architecture studio, which boasts the Pritzker prize. The municipal athletics stadium and Pedra Tosca Park are examples of the creativity and originality to be found in Olot’s contemporary architecture.
Visit the Trincheria House Museum, one of the most important ancestral homes in Olot, located at no. 29, Carrer de Sant Esteve. The house-museum is quintessential of how a well-off family lived in the first half of the 18th-century.
The Cloister of the former Carmen Convent in Olot, located at no. 3, Carrer Padre Antoni Soler, is a formation of impressive Renaissance galleries that is of the most unique and symmetrical in the whole of Catalonia.
The Malagrida neighbourhood (L’Eixample Malagrida in Catalan) is the most emblematic urban treasure in Olot. Built between 1916 and 1925, it is an example of the Noucentista “garden city” movement that took hold in the early 20th century.