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National romanticism
A turn away from imported classicism towards local material, local craft and a constructed national past. Heavy, hand-made and deliberately regional.
Worth seeing
Casa Batlló
1906 · Art Nouveau
Torre Bellesguard
1909 · Art Nouveau
Dramaten
1908 · Art Nouveau
Palau Güell
1890 · Art Nouveau
Stora Tullhuset
1910 · Art Nouveau
Sankt Johannes kyrka
1907 · Art Nouveau
Saint-Jean de Montmartre
1904 · Art Nouveau
Gamla Hovrätten
1917 · National Romantic
Casa Milà
1912 · Art Nouveau
Castel Béranger
1898 · Art Nouveau
Tomtehuset
1890 · National Romantic
Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann
1912 · Art Nouveau
Casa Calvet
1900 · Art Nouveau
Aarhus Teater
1900 · Art Nouveau
Fotografiska
1910 · Art Nouveau
Museum of Applied Arts
1896 · Art Nouveau
Alberta iela
1908 · Art Nouveau
Skandinaviska Bankens palats
1918 · National Romantic
World Maritime University
1910 · National Romantic
Centralposthuset, Malmö
1906 · National Romantic
Eslövs station
1914 · National Romantic
Fontana delle Naiadi
1901 · Art Nouveau
Carl Eldhs ateljé
1919 · National Romantic
Örnsköldsviks kyrka
1910 · Art Nouveau
National romanticism city by city
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- Churches and chapels 1,463
- Parks and gardens 1,395
- Built this century 1,192
- Older than the maps 1,108
- Housing 805
- Museums and galleries 792
- Public art 775
- Stone and mortar 762
- World Heritage 489
- Castles and palaces 484
- Local traditions 430
- Legally protected 420
- Town halls 391
- Post-war ambition 368
- Schools 349
- Squares 297
- The functionalist turn 284
- Monuments 261
- Concrete 193
- Stations 170
- Bridges 166
- Industrial architecture 142
- Award winners 141
- Glass towers 128
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