Museu i Centre d’Estudis de l’Esport Dr Melcior Colet
Museu i Centre d’Estudis de l’Esport Dr Melcior Colet
- Address
- Carrer de Buenos Aires 56-58
- Transport
- Phone
- 93 419 22 32
- Price
- admission free
- Hours
- 9am-2pm & 3-5.30pm Mon-Fri
Lonely Planet review for Museu i Centre d’Estudis de l’Esport Dr Melcior Colet
Puig i Cadafalch’s Casa Company (1911) looks like an odd Tyrolean country house and is marvellously out of place. A collection of photos, documents and other sports memorabilia stretches over two floors – from a 1930s pair of skis and boots (how did they get down mountains on those things?) to the skull-decorated swimming costume of a champion Catalan water-polo player. A curio on the ground floor is the replica of a stone commemoration in Latin of Lucius Minicius Natal, a Barcelona boy who won a quadriga (four-horse chariot) race at the 227th Olympic Games…in AD 129.
