Palau Aguilar

Palau Aguilar stands in the heart of Barcelona as a historic building shaped by seven centuries of change. Its ground floor and three upper floors surround a courtyard where a monumental staircase rises beneath a Baroque wooden canopy.

The earliest written record dates to 1263, and successive owners from the Caldes, Aguilar and other families altered the house over time. Barcelona acquired it in the mid-twentieth century, and it joined the Picasso Museum in 1963, with a connecting corridor added in 1983. Renaissance windows, Baroque balconies and surviving medieval details share the same structure, including a semicircular arch from the former medieval gallery.

Three sixteenth-century windows beside the entrance carry Aguilar heraldic and sculptural decoration. Inside, polychrome wooden beams probably dating from the late thirteenth century preserve the Caldes family arms, while a Renaissance doorway bears Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child.