The city hall of Barcelona asked Joan Miró, a famous catalan painter, to carry out a big sculpture for Barcelona's airport (currently in Terminal 2). He accepted the offer but also agreed to carry out not only this one for those tourists coming by air, but also for those coming by boats or car/bus/trains. One of these works is located in the middle of the Ramblas, in a the famous "Pla de l'Òs" or currently "Pla de la Boqueria", where one of the big middle-age doors of the city was. The aim of this mosaic was to welcome tourists coming by boat and, even everyday thousands of tourists step on to it and sometimes don't realise, Miró was proud of offering a piece of art to the historical Ramblas, so closed to the street where he was born in1893, the "Passatge del Crèdit".
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