The Modernisme Route
The Eixample of dream houses
- Duration: 2 h
- Distance: 4.3 km
- 10 stops
- Level: Easy
About the route
The Eixample was the great showcase of the Catalan bourgeoisie. Every family wanted the most beautiful house, and architects competed in imagination: rippling façades, fairy-tale towers and mosaics in a thousand colours.
This route reveals the most elegant side of Modernisme, from Casa Fuster to the Sant Pau site, a hospital city designed to heal through beauty.
Stops
- Casa Fuster
- Casa Comalat
- Palau del Baró de Quadras
- La Pedrera · Casa Milà
- Palau Montaner
- Casa Thomas
- Casa de les Punxes
- Palau Macaya
- Basilica of the Sagrada Família
- Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site
Practical information
Look up: many details are on the balconies and cornices. The final stretch, from the Sagrada Família to Sant Pau, follows Avinguda de Gaudí, a pedestrian avenue lined with terraces.