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Mercat de Santa Caterina Review

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Mercat de Santa Caterina

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This marketplace, a splendid carnival of colors with a roller-coaster rooftop, was restored by the late Enric Miralles (though the project was finished in 2005 by his widow, architect Benedetta Tagliabue). Undulating wood and colored ceramic mosaic ceilings, recalling both Gaudí and Miró, cover a glass floor through which sections of the original building here, a 13th-century church and convent, is still visible. Alexandre Cirici i Pellicer -- one of Barcelona's great art and architecture experts -- identified "a certain air and aura of a North African souk." A restaurant area consisting of different bars and dining areas specializes in cuisines from Mediterranean to Asian. Typical meat and vegetable stands remain the prime attraction, though a supermarket with home delivery and an Internet ordering system have created an ultramodern facility sandwiched neatly between the neoclassical walls left standing and the medieval and Visigothic remains beneath.

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