Sant Pau – Dos de Maig (Barcelona Metro)

The Old Hospital de la Santa Creu is a 15th-to-18th-century building complex in Barcelona, which formerly served as a hospital and hospice and currently is the home of the National Library of Catalonia, the Institute for Catalan Studies, the former College of Surgeons, and an art school. It has been declared a Historic and Artistic Landmark of National Interest.

The former Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Catalan pronunciation: [uspiˈtal də lə ˈsantə ˈkɾɛw i ˈsam ˈpaw], English: Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul) in the neighborhood of El Guinardó, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, is a complex built between 1901 and 1930. It is one of the most prominent works of the Catalan modernisme architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. The complex was listed as a Conjunto Histórico in 1978. Together with Palau de la Música Catalana, it is declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998.Being composed of 12 pavilions connected through long underground galleries within its large green space, Sant Pau is the largest complex built in Art Nouveau style. It was a fully functioning hospital until June 2009, when the new hospital opened next to it, before undergoing restoration for use as a museum and cultural center, which opened in 2014. Besides being an important historical and architectural masterpiece, the building also offers workspaces for high-profile social organizations such as WHO, Banco Farmacéutico, Barcelona Health Hub, EMEA, UN-HABITAT and more. The cultural center also has an historical archive in which the records and documents of remarkable occurrences related to the hospital and the city can be found. The archives are open for visiting and offers information to users and researchers with the information and reprographics service, in addition to a reading room.

Guinardó | Hospital de Sant Pau (until 2009 Guinardó) is a station of the Barcelona Metro, on L4, serving Ronda del Guinardó and Plaça del Guinardó. It opened in 1974. The station is due to become part of double line L9-L10 in the near future.

Camp de l'Arpa is a station on line 5 of the Barcelona Metro. It is named after the neighbourhood of the same name in the Sant Martí district. The station is located underneath Carrer Indústria, between Passeig Maragall and Carrer Guinardó. It was opened in 1970. The side-platform station has a ticket hall on either end, each with one access, on Carrer Indústria and Passeig Maragall.

El Camp de l'Arpa del Clot (name designated in 2006) is one of the ten neighborhoods of Barcelona which compose the district of Sant Martí, Catalonia (Spain). It was annexed by Barcelona in the year 1897. It is situated in the upper part of this district and before it was named Camp de l'Arca.

Sagrada Família is a metro station in Barcelona Metro network. It is named after the famous, and adjacent, Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, a church first designed by architect Antoni Gaudí and still under construction. It is served by TMB-operated Barcelona Metro lines L2 and L5. The station takes the form of two separate sections linked by a corridor within the paid area of the station complex. Both sections also have their own street entrances: The L2 section is located under Marina street, between Mallorca and Provença streets and has two accesses, one at each side of the station. The upper level has two halls. The trains run on the lower level that has two platforms, one bigger than the other one. The L5 section is located under Provença street, between Sardenya and Marina streets. The upper level has two halls and is equipped with a TMB Information Center and commercial areas. The trains run on the lower level.The L5 section of the station was the first to open, with the opening, in 1970, of the line between Diagonal and Sagrera. The L2 section followed in 1995, with the opening of the line between Sant Antoni and this station.

El Clot is a neighborhood in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). It is one of the oldest parts of the district that has been around since the medieval times under the name Clotum Melis (Clot de la Mel). It was one of the parts of the former municipality of Sant Martí de Provençals, as were the current neighborhoods of el Poblenou and Sant Martí de Provençals.

The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (Catalan: [bəˈzilikə ðə lə səˈɣɾaðə fəˈmiljə]; Spanish: Basílica de la Sagrada Familia; 'Basilica of the Holy Family'), also known as the Sagrada Família, is a large unfinished minor basilica in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and is currently the largest unfinished Roman Catholic church. Designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), his work on the building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica.On 19 March 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família began under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned, Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudí devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the crypt. At the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete.Relying solely on private donations, the Sagrada Família's construction progressed slowly and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War. In July 1936, revolutionaries set fire to the crypt and broke their way into the workshop, partially destroying Gaudí's original plans, drawings and plaster models, which led to 16 years of work to piece together the fragments of the master model. Construction resumed to intermittent progress in the 1950s. Advancements in technologies such as computer aided design and computerised numerical control (CNC) have since enabled faster progress and construction passed the midpoint in 2010. However, some of the project's greatest challenges remain, including the construction of ten more spires, each symbolising an important Biblical figure in the New Testament. It was anticipated that the building would be completed by 2026, the centenary of Gaudí's death, but this has now been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The basilica has a long history of splitting opinion among the residents of Barcelona: over the initial possibility it might compete with Barcelona's cathedral, over Gaudí's design itself, over the possibility that work after Gaudí's death disregarded his design, and the 2007 proposal to build a tunnel nearby as part of Spain's high-speed rail link to France, possibly disturbing its stability. Describing the Sagrada Família, art critic Rainer Zerbst said "it is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art", and Paul Goldberger describes it as "the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages". The basilica is not the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Barcelona, as that title belongs to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia.

Encants is a Barcelona Metro station in the Eixample district of Barcelona, served by L2. It opened in 1997. It is located under carrer de València between carrer del Dos de Maig and carrer de la Independència, and is accessible from both sides of the intersection of carrer de València and Dos de de Maig. The station is named after the nearby Encants Vells and Encants Nous, two markets.

Sagrada Família (Catalan pronunciation: [səˈɣɾaðə fəˈmiliə]) is a neighborhood in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Its name comes from the church of the Sagrada Família, work of Antoni Gaudí, which can be found in the center of the neighborhood.

The Sagrada Família Schools (Catalan: Escoles de la Sagrada Família, Spanish: Escuelas de la Sagrada Familia) building was constructed in 1909 by the modern Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí near the site of the Basílica de la Sagrada Família. It was a small school building for the children of the workers building the Sagrada Família, although other children of the neighborhood attended, especially from the underprivileged classes. The teaching was in the charge of Magin Espina Pujol, math teacher and friend of Gaudí, whose photo teaching classes are in the current school. The building has a rectangular footprint of 10 m (33 ft) by 20 m (66 ft), and contains three classrooms, a hall, and a chapel, with lavatories in an addition to the building. The construction was done with a brick facade in three overlapping layers, following the Catalan technical tradition. Both the walls and the roof have a wavy form that gives the structure a sensation of lightness but, at the same time, great strength. On the exterior three areas intended as open-air classrooms were covered with iron pergolas. The building has been seen as an example of constructive genius and has served as a source of inspiration for many architects for its simplicity, stamina, original volume, functionality, and geometrical purity. Its undulating form has been applied by architects like Le Corbusier, Pier Luigi Nervi, Felix Candela, and Santiago Calatrava.

The plain of Barcelona (Catalan: Pla de Barcelona) is a plain located in the county of Barcelonès, in Catalonia, Spain. It borders the Mediterranean Sea, the Serra de Collserola mountain range, and the river deltas of the Llobregat and Besòs. Its geographical location is between 41° 16' and 41° 30' north latitude and between 1° 54' and 2° 18' east longitude. With a surface area of 102.16 km², the plain is about 11 km long and 6 km wide. Traditionally, this was the name given to the area between the old city of Barcelona and the foothills of the Serra de Collserola mountain range (the hills of El Turó de la Peira, Turó de la Rovira, Turó del Carmel, Turó de la Creueta del Coll, Turó del Putxet, and Turó de Monterols). The plain of Barcelona is located on a fault line that runs from Montgat to Garraf and that originated in the Paleozoic era. The terrain is formed by slate substrates and granite formations, as well as clay and calcareous rock. In the past, the coast was made up of tidal marshes and lagoons, which disappeared gradually as the coastline advanced due to the sediment carried by the rivers and streams that flowed into the beach. It has been estimated that the coastline has advanced about 5 km since the 6th century BC. The plain was previously criss-crossed by numerous torrents and streams, which were grouped into three fluvial sectors: the Riera de Horta stream in the area near the Besòs river (or eastern area); the Riera Blanca stream and the Torrent Gornal stream in the area of the Llobregat river (or western area); and, in the central area of the plain, a group of streams coming from the southern slope of the Tibidabo hill, such as the Riera de Sant Gervasi, Riera de Vallcarca, Riera de Magòria, and Riera de Collserola streams. The climate is Mediterranean, with mild winters thanks to the characteristics of the terrain that shelter the plain from the north winds. Temperature usually ranges between 9.5 °C and 24.3 °C, on average. Rainfall is low, about 600 mm per year, and most of the precipitation occurs in spring and autumn. This shortage meant that, in the past, heavy work had to be carried out to supply water to the city, including wells, canals, and irrigation channels. The vegetation of the area consists mainly of pine and oak, and undergrowth of heather, laurustine, strawberry trees, and vines. In the past, both dryland farming and irrigated agriculture were practiced—mainly in vineyards and cereal fields—although today almost the entire area is covered by buildings. The plain remained an agricultural area until the 19th century, since the city was enclosed within its walls and the adjoining land was designated for its protection. This led to a large increase in population density, which entailed serious public health risks, until 1854, when the walls were torn down, and the expansion of the city began. This came about thanks to the new urban perimeter expansion plan designed by Ildefonso Cerdá. Nowadays, the Eixample district occupies a large part of the plain of Barcelona.