Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
If there's one building in the city to which a visit is obligatory it's Antoni Gaudí's great
church of the Sagrada Família, which lies in the eastern reaches of the Eixample. Most
visitors make a special journey out by metro to see the church and then head straight
back into the centre, but there are also a few lesser-known
modernista
-era buildings
nearby,mostnotablytheenchantingpavilionsoftheHospitaldelaSantaCreuideSant
Pau. A few blocks south of the Sagrada Família is the area known as Glòries, home
to the city's main concert hall, music and design museums, and the flagship nation-
al theatre building. Glòries was originally conceived as the nucleus of the nineteenth-
century city expansion plan, but while this never materialized, it is a neighbourhood
destined for dramatic redevelopment as the city council continues to breathe new life
into peripheral urban areas.
