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Frederic Marès, who lived from 1893 until 1991, was a very famous Catalan sculptor. Intelligent and wealthy, he travelled all over the world and had very interesting rhetoric and culture. This artist spent most part of his fortune collecting all types of objects that go from medieval artworks up to objects from the 19th and 20th century.
At the end of the century in Spain, Italy and Greece and many other European countries, were full of art traffickers who went to rural churches far away or towns in the mountains to take all the works that they could find. This alarmed Marès a lot and he did all that he could to keep the legacy by obtaining these works that the traffickers were trying to steal.
All of these works, different objects and collections that Marès managed to collect are exhibited in the galleries of the museum that carries his name and that is divided in different buildings that were reformed during the 40s and that, for example, belonged to no less than Royal Palace.
If you´re an object collection lover, the Museum Frederic Marès is your place in the world and you can´t not visit it. You can rent apartments in Barcelona and enjoy the route.
