The Palau Nacional built for the 1929 International Exhibition hosts today the National Museum of Catalan Arts. The MNAC embraces all the arts and gives an general approach of Catalan Art from the Romanesque period to the mid-twentieth century.

Renaissance, Baroque to Modernism or Avant guard discover the Catalan artistic inspiration and a more international discourse, with the work of great painters, such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Velázquez, Cranach, Rubens. Located on Montjuic hill it offers a magnificent view of the city of Barcelona. Like Miro Foundation, the magic fountain or the Olympic stadium, the MNAC is part of the artistic and cultural offer of the Montjuic.