Sundial by Joaquim Camps
Plaça del Sol
Vila de Gràcia
Barcelona, March 2017
“If we enter the neighborhood of Gràcia we will discover two very curious sundials. There is a sundial in Plaza del Sol, of course. It is an empty hemisphere, made of bronze, encircled by the twelve signs of the zodiac, in which the time lines are recorded. Astrolabe, he's called. The author is Joaquim Camps, who also made the sculpture of Rovira and Trias located in Plaça Rovira. The highlight of the neighborhood is the one on the facade of the ‘Lluïsos de Gràcia’ (Plaça del Nord), a cultural entity of great tradition, founded in 1855; this is a watch of painted sun and a rectangle of four meters wide, with two angels on both sides that hold it imaginatively. It was designed in 1990 by two brothers, Jordi and Josep Nogué.” (Barcelona: Watch clocks, El sol i el temps)
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