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Gran Teatre del Liceu vs Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
Both are praised by professional reviewers writing for major publications. On balance, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC scores significantly higher than Gran Teatre del Liceu. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC ranks #5 in Barcelona with endorsements from 12 publications like The Telegraph, Condé Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure.
Gran Teatre del Liceu
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La Rambla 51-59, 08001 Barcelona
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Fodor's
"Barcelona's opera house has long been considered one of the most beautiful in Europe, in the same category as Milan's La Scala."
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"The opulent Liceu was built in 1847 as a paean to the arts, with gilded ballrooms, a hall of mirrors, and an auditorium similar to Milan's Teatro alla Scala."
Lonely Planet
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"If you can’t catch a night at the opera, you can still have a look around one of Europe’s greatest opera houses, known to locals as the Liceu."
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Travel + Leisure
"The principal venue for opera, concerts, and dance since 1847, the hall reopened in 1999 after a major fire and is now one of the most technologically and acoustically advanced theaters in Europe."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"The Liceu is a chocolate-box opera house for the 21st century."
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Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC
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Parc de Montjuic, Palau Nacional, 08038 Barcelona
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Fodor's
"Housed in the imposingly domed, towered, frescoed, and columned Palau Nacional... this superb museum was renovated in 1995 by Gae Aulenti."
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Concierge
"Covering 1,000 years of Catalan art, this fully modernized museum on Montjuïc was carved out of the Palau Nacional for the 1929 International Exposition."
Travel + Leisure
"Journey up to the Parc de Monjuïc to see the work of Picasso's Barcelona contemporaries at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya."
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Frommer's
"Although its mammoth collection also covers the Gothic period and the 19th and 20th centuries, the MNAC is perhaps the most important center for Romanesque art in the world."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"An extensive collection of Catalan art, from Modernista sculptures to paintings by Dalí... also has large holdings of European Renaissance paintings."
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