Palau Robert

It's now a government-run institution that hosts an exhibition centre with three halls, a concert hall and gardens as well as the Information Tourist Centre for Catalonia.

In the 1936–1939 period, it was the site of the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Culture.

After the Spanish Civil War, Robert's family regained the Palau, until its second purchase by the Generalitat de Catalunya (the Catalan government) in 1981, when it became a public building.

An example of late neoclassical style, made of stone from Montgrí, the Palau Robert was finished in 1903 under the direction of architects Henry Grandpierre and Joan Martorell i Montells.

Its palm trees were brought during the 1888 Barcelona Universal Exposition.