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Hospital de Sant Pau

  • Address: Carrer Sant Antoni Maria Claret 167, Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia | Map It
  • Phone: 93/291-9000
  • www.santpau.es

Fodor's Review:

Certainly one of the most beautiful hospital complexes in the world, a 10-minute walk down Avinguda Gaudí from the Sagrada Família, 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 are more apt to recover if they are surrounded by trees and flowers, rather than ensconced 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.

  • Cost: Free; tour EUR 5
  • Open: Daily 9-8; tours weekends 10-2, weekdays by advance arrangement
  • Metro: Hospital de Sant Pau
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