The Palau Robert presents the exhibition “Ferran Adrià and elBulli. Risk, Freedom and Creativity”, which will run from 2 February 2012 to 3 February 2013, showing the talent and comprehensive capacity to innovate that Ferran Adrià, the late 20th and early 21st centuries’ most influential chef, has applied to gastronomy.

Representatives of the gastronomy and tourism sectors visited the exhibition “Ferran Adrià and elBulli. Risk, Freedom and Creativity” on 1 February. Everyone in attendance had the opportunity to greet Ferran Adrià and his team, and to hear explanations from them firsthand. The Vice President of the Government, Joana Ortega, also visited the exhibition.

The President of the Government of Catalonia, Artur Mas, highlighted the fact that, with people like Ferran Adrià, Catalonia has the opportunity to position itself among the world’s top-ranking countries. “This is the kind of change the country needs to make in order to project itself to the rest of the world, to be right up there with the best and to be a gold standard. And thanks to Ferran Adrià, to his team and to so many other creative people in our country, that is indeed possible,” the President asserted. The Head of the Catalan Executive spoke these words at the opening of the exhibition “Ferran Adrià and elBulli. Risk, Freedom and Creativity”, which took place on 31 January at the Palau Robert in Barcelona.

The Palau Robert plays host to the exhibition “Vall de Boí, World Heritage” from 1 December 2011 to 29 January 2012. It presents the Romanesque heritage and natural attractions of the Vall de Boí, a municipality comprising eight villages. This is among the activities planned by the Vall de Boí Tourist Board and the Romanesque Interpretation Centre to mark the tenth anniversary of the designation of the Romanesque churches of the Vall de Boí as World Heritage.

The photography exhibition “Castells and castellers. Intangible World Heritage”, on display in the Palau Robert Gardens from 17 November, pays tributes to the individuals and groups that have made castells, or human towers, a symbol of Catalonia and one of the cultural treasures of humanity. The exhibition coincides with the first anniversary of the inscription of castells on the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The 35 images which comprise the photography exhibition “Catalanidade / Catalanitat” show the historical and cultural links, the invisible thread which ties Catalonia and Sardinia together. The exhibition, on display from 10 to 23 November 2011, was made possible thanks to the sponsorship of the Province of Cagliari, the work of three Sardinian photographers, namely, Gianluigi Becciu, Corrado Cabras and Marco D’Aietti, and the support of the Palau Robert.