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 | | All the facilities created for the event were very popular with the people, especially the fountains as well as the fun fair, the Palau Nacional floodlights, the zeppelin, the gardens, the new stadium, the new swimming pool, the Teatre Grec and all the exhibitions. |
 | | Also still standing is the monumental complex in Plaça d'Espanya (1929), by Josep M. Jujol, contributors to which were the sculptors Miquel Blai, Llucià and Miquel Oslé and Frederic Llobet, whose figures symbolise the rivers Ebre, Tagus and Guadalquivir alongside concepts such as health and abundance. |
 | | Artistically speaking, the Exhibition marked the apotheosis of a monumental style somewhere between the Baroque and Noucentisme, an antiquated form of monumentalism in the opinion of M. Carmen Grandes: "This monumentalism was never reflected in the quality of the materials, in the pathology of buildings or in the arrangement of space. |
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