travel > Destinations > europe > Spain > Museu i Centre d’Estudis de l’Esport Dr Melcior Colet

Museu i Centre d’Estudis de l’Esport Dr Melcior Colet

TIME : 2016/2/19 1:33:00

Puig i Cadafalch’s Casa Company (1911) looks like an odd Tyrolean country house and is marvellously out of place. A collection of photos, documents and other sports memorabilia stretches over two floors – from an incongruous 1930s pair of skis and boots to the skull-decorated swimming costume of a champion Catalan water-polo player.

A curio on the ground floor is the replica of a stone commemoration in Latin of Lucius Minicius Natal, a Barcelona boy who won a quadriga (four-horse chariot) race at the 227th Olympic Games…in AD 129.