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A Mediterranean drink?

Fleeing from the Franco-Prussian war in Alsace, the Damm family arrived in Barcelona with the aim of introducing into the Catalan market the favourite drink in their country: beer. After a few years... Read more

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Nomenclature Avinguda de Gaudí Neighbourhood

Sardenya, Rosselló, Mallorca, Provença or Còrsega. Lepant, Padilla, Castillejos or Dos de Maig. All are names of streets in Avinguda de Gaudí district. Many of them come from past times and others... Read more

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Gaudí Avenue, "The Modernist Avenue of Barcelona"

This avenue is a small diagonal that breaks the perfect grid layout of the Eixample and stretches proudly from the Sagrada Família towards the Hospital de Sant Pau, the main modernist monuments of... Read more

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Sant Pau and Indiana Jones

At the end of the XIX century, the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner built the current Modernist facility: a space structured in several pavilions - each one attending to a medical specialty -,... Read more