Example sentences for: modernista

How can you use “modernista” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In addition to Bareclona’s modernista architecture, Passeig de Gràcia (Paseo de Gracia in Spanish) is lined with outdoor cafés, cinemas, galleries, bookstores, and elegant fashion boutiques.

  • On the west side of the Plaça Major is Plaça de Marqués Palmer; sandwiched among chic leather and footwear shops are two excellent examples of modernista (Catalan Art Nouveau) architecture: Can Forteza Rei and L’Àguila, whose iron grill work and broken-tile flourishes are similar to better-known modernista buildings found in Barcelona.

  • Picasso had his first public exhibition here in 1901, and the bar, one of the first commissions for the modernista architect Puig i Cadafalch, preserves its turn-of-the-century ambience.

  • The neighborhood is flush with spectacular apartment buildings, examples of Barcelona’s unique early-20th-century modernista architecture, and is called the Quadrat d’Or (Golden Square).

  • No modernista apartment buildings, no hallowed Gothic shrines in this shirt-sleeve community of people who catch fish, cook and serve them, eat and drink heartily, and yell back and forth at each other across neighborly streets.


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