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Casa Asia has its headquarters in Barcelona, in the Palau Baró de Quadras, a Modernist building designed by the architect Puig i Cadafalch. The building, which is classified as an Artistic and Historical Monument of National Interest, is located at number 373 of Avinguda Diagonal in Barcelona. It is a unique building, with facilities well suited for accommodating Casa Asia's wide range of initiatives. Casa Asia has become a reference point and a center for cultural information on Asia and the Pacific and has provided the city with a meeting point between the Spanish society and the Asian world.

HRH The Prince of Asturias inaugurated Casa Asia's headquarters in an official ceremony on 16 June 2003. The Prince walked round Casa Asia's premises, unveiled a commemorative plaque and visited the exhibition 'Divine Presence: Arts of India and the Himalayas'. The Ambassadors of Asian and Pacific countries accredited in Spain attended the event, as did representatives of the three administrative institutions that make up the Casa Asia Consortium as well as other representatives of civil society.

In September 2005 Casa Asia has been able to make use of a new building adjoining its headquarters on Avenida Diagonal, which has broadened the available premises and services. The intense activity being developed by the institution with the holding of courses, seminars, conferences, film screenings, forums, etc, together with the increased demand for courses and workshops and the high numbers of students and researchers visiting the Media Library daily has made necessary the enlarging of Casa Asia’s physical space.

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Tagore Auditorium. This space hosts the public presentation of activities, seminars and conferences. It is situated on the first floor of the new building and it accommodates 175 people.
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Classrooms. With the enlargement, three new classrooms (Confucius, Basho and Nagarjuna) located on the sixth floor for the undertaking of courses and workshops programmed by the department of Educational Programs have been added to the classrooms Uluru and Aotearoa in Palau Baró de Quadras.
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Media Library. This is a computerised and multimedia documentation centre with the objective of providing specialised information regarding Asia and the Pacific. With the annexing of the fifth floor of the adjoining building, the multimedia documentation centre now has a surface of 500m² and a capacity of 30,000 documents, of which 20,500 are for monographs, 3,000 for DVD’s/videos, 5,000 for audio CD’s and the remainder for periodicals.
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Huang He Business Circle. Situated on the third floor of the adjoining building, this is the space that Casa Asia places at the service of the business community with the aim of serving as a meeting point for Spanish and Asian companies through the holding of business meetings, discussion forums, etc. It is also where the working breakfast and section meetings are held.

Terrace – Orient Garden. This is an area that Casa Asia uses for the holding of certain events such as presentations, musical performances, cultural and gastronomic demonstrations, etc. In 2005 the artist Jordi Gispert produced a work in this space using elements such as stone, sand, glass and stainless steel. In the transformation undertaken by the artist, highlights are the Zen gardens with sand and lotus, a 6-metre long bridge which spans the central patio and which symbolises the union between East and West, the painted bamboo canes over the cabinets which store equipment, petals of stone and other symbolic elements related to Asia.
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Ispahan and Manila Rooms, located on the first floor of Palau Baró de Quadras, two great rooms for the celebration of public and private events and for those companies which would like to hold or present their activities.
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Art Gallery, takes up the second floor and it is made up of five rooms –Palaos, Pusan, Elcano, Kobe and Rizal-, and Asian art exhibitions from museums and private collections, as well as other artistic disciplines are displayed there.
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Infoasia, point of information regarding Asia and the Pacific and a space for exhibitions (July and August). Throughout the academic year (from September to June), this space hosts School of Bamboo activities.

Bar Azafrán, situated on the ground floor of the building, this bar-restaurant offers a selection of oriental food and drink.

TransAsia is also one of Casa Asia’s new activities: a permanent exhibition, of virtual nature, and with multidisciplinary contents regarding Asia and the Pacific. This will be situated in the former auditorium (currently called Samarcanda Hall until the repairs are finished) and in the former Business Circle, which is provisionally used as an exhibition hall.
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If you are interested in renting any of our spaces, please write to espacios@casaasia.es. You can also download a document showing the technical features of each room.

Office of Casa Asia
Av. Diagonal, 373
08008 Barcelona Buses: 39, 6, 15, 33, 34, 22, 24, 28, 20, 39, 45, 47

Subway station: Diagonal

FGC station: Provença

Parkings:
- Montserrat Marsal Janot (c/ Rosselló, 256)
- Gràcia I (Pg. de Gràcia, 112)
- Parking Artes S.L. (c/ Torrent de l'Olla, 8)

Map and timetable

Headquarters:
- Monday to Saturday, 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
- Sundays and holidays, 10.00 am - 2.00 pm

Exhibition Hall and TransAsia Space - 3rd Floor:
- Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
- Sundays, 10.00 am - 2.00 pm
- Closed on Mondays

Media Library:
- Monday to Friday, 10.00 am - 8.00 pm
- Saturdays, 10.00 am - 2.00 pm

InfoAsia
- Monday to Friday, 10.00 am - 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm - 8.00 pm

Bar Azafrán
- Monday to Saturday, 9.00 am - 9.00 pm

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