The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre is a national research and supercomputing facility housed in the neo-Romanesque chapel of Torre Girona. In the Les Corts district, this unusual space is home to the MareNostrum supercomputer, one of the most powerful in Europe. The contrast between the chapel’s solemn interior and the advanced technology it contains is not just visual but real. Beneath historic vaults, millions of data processes run every second, bringing architectural heritage and technological innovation together in the same space.
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The MareNostrum supercomputer is among the most powerful in the world.
Today it still conceals its technological core behind the solemn façade of a 19th-century Neo-Romanesque temple.
It is not a museum, and visits are not always available. However, on open days or during events such as Nit de la Recerca (Research Night), it can be visited as one of Europe’s leading computing centres.
