Hospital de Sant Pau
People were treated here until 2009 — inside the largest Art Nouveau complex ever built.
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Domènech i Montaner turned a hospital into a full modernista campus of garden pavilions. The institution ran for over a century and shares its 1997 UNESCO listing with the Palau de la Música Catalana.
What to look for
- The 12 pavilions don't connect at street level — underground galleries link them, leaving the surface as gardens.
- Domènech i Montaner drew 48 buildings; only 27 were built, so the campus is a scaled-back version of his plan.
Reopened in 2014 as a museum and cultural center after a roughly €100M restoration — go inside the pavilions and grounds, not just a gate shot.
Hospital de Sant Pau is one of 39 sights worth the detour in Barcelona, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Barcelona pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Barcelona
- Sagrada FamíliaGaudí is buried beneath a church begun in 1882 and still unfinished — one that in 2025 became the world's tallest.
- Camp NouThe bowl that once crammed 120,000 people in to watch Barça — European football's biggest room.
- Park GüellGaudí's failed luxury subdivision — 2 of 60 planned homes ever built — that Barcelona inherited as a mosaic playground.
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera)Gaudí's last private house looks like a wind-carved sea cliff parked on a city corner.
- Casa BatllóGaudí reskinned a townhouse into a slain dragon, down to columns shaped like leg bones.
- Barcelona CathedralThirteen white geese live in the cloister — one for each year Saint Eulalia was alive before Rome killed her.