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Hospital de Sant Pau
Hospital de Sant Pau Review
Certainly one of the most beautiful hospital complexes in the world, the Hospital de Sant Pau is notable for its Mudejar motifs and sylvan plantings. The hospital wards are set among gardens under exposed brick facades intensely decorated with mosaics and polychrome ceramic tile. Begun in 1900, this monumental production won Lluís Domènech i Montaner his third Barcelona "Best Building" award, in 1912. (His previous two prizes were for the Palau de la Música Catalana and Casa Lleó Morera.) The Moderniste enthusiasm for nature is apparent here; the architect believed patients were more apt to recover surrounded by trees and flowers than in sterile hospital wards. Domènech i Montaner also believed in the therapeutic properties of form and color, and decorated the hospital with Pau Gargallo sculptures and colorful mosaics.
- Address: Carrer Sant Antoni Maria Claret 167, Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08025 | Map It
- Phone: 902/076-621 for daily tours in English at 10:15 and 12:15; 93/256-2504 for guided tours by appointment
- Cost: Free; tour €5
- Hours: Daily 9-8; tours weekends 10-2, weekdays by advance arrangement
- Website: www.santpau.es
- Metro Hospital de Sant Pau.
- Location: The Eixample
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