8/9/2023 0 Comments Cuckoo clock mini![]() ![]() Doors and windows are created using silicon moulds where polyurethane is injected to obtain the desired shape. After that, the model makers start working on the structure that will hold up the model. The precision demanded by model makers requires highly accurate drawings as well as detailed photographs. At first, the architectural drawings of the building or monument are used to create new drawings at a scale 1:33 in the case of Barcelona city and 1:25 for the other buildings. The scale models construction process includes several stages. ![]() Nowadays the park has an amusement railway, 940 meter long, used by visitors along the external perimeter of the scale model area. It includes waterfalls, fountains and lakes decorated with 400 tons of stones. The scale models area includes 5,000 m 2 (54,000 sq ft) of grass, 4,500 plants, 450 trees, 600 bonsais, 35 palm trees and more than 3,000 seasonal flower plants. Visitors follow a single path where the models are installed sorted by the geographical comarcas (counties) of Catalonia, and its four provinces (Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona). įernando Ercilla, manager of the park, inaugurated in 2008 a scale model of the Port del Comte ski resort, which became the largest model exhibited in the park.Ĭatalunya en Miniatura has a total of 60,000 m 2 (650,000 sq ft), 35,000 m 2 (380,000 sq ft) of them devoted to 147 scale models and 25,000 m 2 (270,000 sq ft) for parking and services. In June 1985 Nicolau Casaus, vice-president of FC Barcelona, laid in place the first stone of the Camp Nou and Mini Estadi scale models. The laying in place of the first stone was done on May 6, 1983, presided by the mayor of Torrelles, the President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Pujol, and the Catalan minister Joan Rigol, who was born in Torrelles. After the opening more financing was needed and Mr. Fernando de Ercilla Ayestarán made a trip to Madurodam in 1981 which inspired him and as he knew about Hans Lorijn's plan, he joined the project becoming one of the shareholders. The first concept of creating this park came from Hans (Johannes A.) Lorijn, who had been involved in the construction of Minimundus in Austria and who later also designed and constructed Mini-Europe in Brussels. Model of the Port del Comte ski resort inaugurated in 2008 ![]()
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