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DISSENY HUB
Museum
( 93 256 23 00;
www.dhub-bcn.cat
; Carrer de Montcada 12; adult/child under 16yr/senior & student €5/
free/3, 3-8pm Sun free; 11am-7pm Tue-Sat, to 8pm Sun, to 3pm holidays; Jaume I)
The 13th-
century Palau dels Marquesos de Llió (which underwent repeated alterations into the 18th
century) is temporary home to part of the city's Disseny (Design) Hub collection of ap-
plied arts - this is where it has its temporary exhibitions, study galleries and activities.
Often the exhibition on the ground floor is free, while the more extensive 1st-floor ex-
hibition is what you pay for (admission includes entry to both locations). The permanent
collections of Disseny are housed in the Palau Reial de Pedralbes and the new building,
scheduled for completion in 2013, will be in Plaça de les Glòries. The building's court-
yard, with its cafe-restaurant, makes a delightful stop.
MERCAT DE SANTA CATERINA
Market
( 93 319 17 40;
www.mercatsantacaterina.net
; Avinguda de Francesc Cambó 16; 7.30am-2pm Mon,
to 3.30pm Tue, Wed & Sat, to 8.30pm Thu & Fri; Jaume I)
Finished in 2005, this excellent pro-
duce market is distinguished by its kaleidoscopic and weirdly wavy roof, held up above
the bustling produce stands, restaurants, cafes and bars by twisting slender branches of
what look like grey steel trees.
The multicoloured ceramic roof (with a ceiling made of warm, light timber) recalls the
Modernista tradition of
trencadís
decoration (a type of mosaic, such as that in Park Güell).
Indeed, its curvy design, like a series of Mediterranean rollers, seems to plunge back into
an era when Barcelona's architects were limited only by their (vivid) imagination.
The market's 1848 predecessor had been built over the remains of the demolished 15th-
century Gothic Monestir de Santa Caterina, a powerful Dominican monastery. A small
section of the church foundations is glassed over in one corner as an archaeological re-
minder (with explanatory panels), the
Espai Santa Caterina
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8.30am-2pm Mon-Wed & Sat, to 8pm Thu & Fri)
.
(admission free;
PARC DE LA CIUTADELLA
Park
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