Hotel Internacional (Barcelona)

The forecast of visitors from outside Barcelona and the lack of proper accommodation represented a disadvantage for the importance of the event, the first of this level that was held in Spain.

For this reason it was decided to build a hotel based on the principles of Swiss César Ritz, who conceived a type of accommodation different from the inn or hostel: a cozy place with enough amenities for the client to feel at home.

[3] The construction began in the middle of the month of December 1887 and the 14 of February 1888 the building had been completed,[4] although the interior finishes and decoration lasted until the end of March 1888.

In the middle of January, it was decided to work at night, using eighteen large electric lights, and the personnel brigades were structured which in total were made up of 650 masons and laborers, 100 carpenters and 40 plasterers.

The building had a great reception among the citizens of Barcelona and a good part of the intellectual sector, which considered it a work of art representative of the new architecture.