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.
Olot is the Catalan capital of volcanoes. There are four of them dotted around the city, which was founded upon their very own unique volcanic soil.
Modernism is a cultural, literary and artistic movement that emerged during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and swept throughout the whole of Western society. In Catalonia, however, Modernism (or Modernisme in Catalan) became a broader movement that also came to encompass politics and the economy, giving rise to what is now known specifically as “Catalan Modernism”.
Discover the medieval gem that is Santa Pau via a route from Olot!
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