{"id":8991,"date":"2025-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/gaudi-palace-inaugurates-the-gaudi-year-2026-in-riudoms-and-reus\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:00:18","slug":"gaudi-palace-inaugurates-the-gaudi-year-2026-in-riudoms-and-reus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/gaudi-palace-inaugurates-the-gaudi-year-2026-in-riudoms-and-reus\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaud\u00ed Palace inaugurates the Gaud\u00ed Year 2026 in Riudoms and Reus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Gaud\u00ed Palace of Astorga has been present at the opening ceremony of the Gaud\u00ed Year 2026 &#8211; Any Gaud\u00ed &#8211; held this Saturday, November 8 in the towns of Riudoms and Reus (Tarragona), a day that gave official start to the commemoration of the centenary of the death of Antoni Gaud\u00ed, to be held in 2026.  <\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<p>Representing Gaud\u00ed Palace were V\u00edctor Murias and Alfonso Nistal, who participated in the various events organized throughout the day, accompanied by Tom\u00e1s Valle, councilor of the Astorga City Council.<\/p>\n\n<p>The day began in Riudoms, where the institutional reception took place at the Town Hall, chaired by the mayor Ricard Gili Ferr\u00e9 and the commissioner of the Any Gaud\u00ed, Galdric Santana Roma. The attendees visited Antoni Gaud\u00ed&#8217;s Casa Pairal and enjoyed a festive atmosphere with parades and performances open to the public, before the institutional speeches led by the president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Salvador Illa i Roca, who valued very positively that all the buildings that Gaud\u00ed built outside Catalonia were present at the inauguration.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-blog-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Inauguracio-Any-Gaudi-Riudoms-279-1160x700.jpg\" alt=\"A giant by Antonio Gaud&#xED; accompanied by various dancers in colorful clothes.\" class=\"wp-image-6749\" title=\"Palacio de Gaudi\"><\/figure>\n\n<p>In the afternoon, in Reus, the program continued with a lunch at the Gaud\u00ed Centre, where institutional and cultural representatives from all over Catalonia gathered, and the official opening ceremony at the Bartrina Theater, with speeches by the main regional and local authorities, the projection of the commemorative video and a musical performance by Camerata XXI.<\/p>\n\n<p>The day concluded in the gardens of the Santuari de la Miseric\u00f2rdia with a large-format opening show, created by La Pu\u00e7a Espectacles, which combined art, technology and live music to pay tribute to the origins and creative genius of Antoni Gaud\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-blog-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Inauguracion-Ano-Gaudi-2026-3-1160x700.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks in the night sky and a giant Antoni Gaud&#xED; presiding in front of the Sanctuary of Mercy of Reus.\" class=\"wp-image-6756\" title=\"Palacio de Gaudi\"><\/figure>\n\n<p>From the Gaud\u00ed Palace of Astorga we express our satisfaction and enthusiasm for having been able to inaugurate together the Gaud\u00ed Year 2026, sharing this historic moment with the institutions and entities that guard the work of the Catalan architect. This meeting strengthens the bond between Gaud\u00ed&#8217;s buildings and consolidates a spirit of unity, collaboration and common admiration for Gaud\u00ed&#8217;s universal legacy.<\/p>\n\n<p>During the day, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, expressed his interest and willingness to visit the Gaud\u00ed Palace over the next year. He showed special interest in the city of Astorga, its history and population, and expressed his desire to see first hand the building designed by Gaud\u00ed in the capital of the Maragata region. Also, the mayor of Reus, Sandra Guaita, highlighted the twinning between Reus and Astorga since 1988. Also, the councilor pointed out the special value of this year in which, from the Asturias Palace, we will honor two outstanding reusenses as Grau and Gaud\u00ed.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-blog-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Inauguracion-Ano-Gaudi-2026-1-1160x700.webp\" alt=\"A woman wears a colorful headdress that follows the trencad&#xED;s pattern, with mosaic pieces.\" class=\"wp-image-6757\" title=\"Palacio de Gaudi\"><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-blog-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Inauguracion-Ano-Gaudi-2026-1-1160x700.jpg\" alt=\"The representatives of the Gaud&#xED; Palace and the Astorga City Council pose in the official photograph with the president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Salvador Illa.\" class=\"wp-image-6754\" title=\"Palacio de Gaudi\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gaud\u00ed Palace of Astorga has been present at the opening ceremony of the Gaud\u00ed Year 2026 &#8211; Any Gaud\u00ed &#8211; held this Saturday, November 8 in the towns of Riudoms and Reus (Tarragona), a day that gave official start to the commemoration of the centenary of the death of Antoni Gaud\u00ed, to be held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,180,173],"tags":[187,178],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-gaudi-year-2","category-news","tag-any-gaudi-2026","tag-gaudi-year-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palaciodegaudi.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}