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The Gran Teatre del Liceu, or simply Liceu, is a theater in Barcelona, Spain. Situated on La Rambla, it is the city's oldest theater building still in use for its original purpose.
Liceu façade towards La Rambla
View of the house from the stage, 1847
Explosion in the Liceu by anarchist Santiago Salvador on the cover of the newspaper Le Petit Journal, 1893
The auditorium after the 1999 reconstruction
Liceu bombing
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The Liceu bombing was a terrorist attack by the Spanish anarchist Santiago Salvador, who killed 20 to 30 people at Barcelona's Grand Lyceum Theatre on 7 November 1893. The bombing was in response to t
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…was rebuilt after fires in 1861 and 1994, and reopened on 20 April 1862 and 7 October 1999. On 7 November 1893, on the opening night of the season, an anarchist threw two bombs into the stalls. About twenty people were killed, and many more were injured. Between 1847 and 1989, the 2,338-seat Liceu was the largest opera house in Europe by…
Illustration of the bombing in Le Petit Journal
Santiago Salvador, the perpetrator of the Liceu bombing
The Columbus Monument, where the funeral procession of the victims of the bombing ended