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Barcelona is a city to live and share. So
prepare to enjoy this Mediterranean, welcoming, plural and
diverse city. Open to every innovation and full of history
and culture. A stroll through the streets of Barcelona lets
one discover monuments, museums and buildings steeped in
history and wisdom, where culture and work blend together
seamlessly, allowing visitors and residents alike to enjoy
it fully.
Within walking distance from the hotel
guests will find Passeig de Grà cia Barcelona’s most
elegant avenue and one of the best architectural walks in
the city. The quality and quantity of modernist buildings is
unrivalled, not only in Barcelona but in any city of the
world. It is the defining avenue of the 19th century
Eixample, a grid like "extension" to the city that was
planned by engineer Ildefons Cerdà whose original plan was
observed, but not in its entirety. Cerdà ’s plan called for
impressive inner squares and gardens for each city block and
these were never built.
The Passeig de Grà cia was from the beginning designed to be
Barcelona’s Grand Avenue. It’s origins can be traced back to
Roman times when it was a path that linked to the Via
Augusta. In medieval times the city’s door to this road was
the Portal dels Orbs (blind people’s gate), today the Portal
del Angel pedestrian shopping area. |
