Barcelona
Eixample
Eixample is one of Barcelona's ten administrative districts, laid out on the nineteenth-century grid plan drawn by Ildefons Cerda. It contains a dense concentration of Catalan modernista architecture and several of the city's municipal markets.
- Type
- district
- Status
- An official administrative unit with a defined boundary.
Also known as L'Eixample.
What is recorded here
Counts describe this corpus, not the area as a whole.
- Civic & heritage3
- Markets3
- Architecture & design2
- Parks & gardens2
- Cafés1
- Performing arts1
- Shopping1
Places in Eixample
Architecture & design
Casa Batllo
Eixample
Casa Batllo is a remodelled apartment building on Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona's Eixample district, reworked by Antoni Gaudi between 1904 and 1906. It is open to visitors and forms part of the UNESCO World Heritage inscription covering Gaudi's work.
Visit info checked Sept 2026
Civic & heritage
Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau
Eixample
The Sant Pau site in Barcelona's Eixample district was built as a hospital between 1902 and 1930 to designs by Lluis Domenech i Montaner and his son Pere Domenech i Roura. Clinical services moved to an adjacent modern building in 2009 and the historic pavilions reopened as a visitable site.
Markets
Mercat de Sant Antoni
Eixample
Mercat de Sant Antoni is a municipal market in Barcelona's Eixample district, housed in an iron and brick hall of 1882 by Antoni Rovira i Trias. It reopened in 2018 after a long restoration and continues to trade as a food market with a separate second-hand book and periodical market.
Markets
Mercat de la Concepcio
Eixample
Mercat de la Concepcio is a municipal market in Barcelona's Eixample, trading since 1888 in an iron hall moved from the Born and known particularly for its flower stalls on Carrer d'Arago.
Markets
Mercat del Fort Pienc
Eixample
Mercat del Fort Pienc is a municipal market in the Fort Pienc neighbourhood of Barcelona's Eixample, opened in 2003 as part of a block combining the market with a library, a school and a civic centre.
Parks & gardens
Parc de Joan Miro
Eixample
Parc de Joan Miro is a public park in Barcelona's Eixample, built in the 1980s on the site of the municipal slaughterhouse and dominated by Joan Miro's sculpture Dona i Ocell.
Architecture & design
Farmacia Bolos
Eixample
Farmacia Bolos is a working pharmacy on Rambla de Catalunya in Barcelona's Eixample, fitted out in 1902 to a modernista design with stained glass, carved wood and a mosaic floor.
Cafés
Cacao Sampaka
Eixample
Cacao Sampaka is a chocolate shop and cafe on Carrer del Consell de Cent in Barcelona's Eixample, opened in 2000 by a group including the pastry chef Albert Adria.
Civic & heritage
Palau Robert
Eixample
Palau Robert is a nineteenth-century mansion at the top of Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona, now a public information centre and exhibition space with a garden open to the street.
Performing arts
Aquitania Teatre
Eixample
Aquitania Teatre is a performing arts venue in la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample, Barcelona, listed on the register of cultural facilities maintained by Barcelona's Institute of Culture.
Civic & heritage
Amics de la Unesco de Barcelona
Eixample
Amics de la Unesco de Barcelona is an athenaeum in l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample, Barcelona, listed on the register of cultural facilities maintained by Barcelona's Institute of Culture.
Parks & gardens
Jardi de Cristina Fernandez Pereira
Eixample
Jardi de Cristina Fernandez Pereira is a city-block interior opened as a public garden in Sant Antoni, Barcelona, recorded in the city's open data register. Barcelona has recovered dozens of these courtyards from the interiors of Eixample and old-town blocks and opened them to the public.
Shopping
Centre Comercial Encants Nous
Eixample
Centre Comercial Encants Nous is a covered commercial gallery in la Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, recorded in the city's open data register.
13 of 13 places shown on the map. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Other areas in Barcelona
- Gracia
- Ciutat Vella
- Sants-Montjuic
- Sant Marti
- Sant Andreu
- Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera
- Provencals del Poblenou
- les Corts
- la Barceloneta
- Diagonal Mar i el Front Maritim del Poblenou
- Sant Gervasi - Galvany
- el Barri Gotic
- la Dreta de l'Eixample
- el Raval
- la Vila de Gracia
- el Poble Sec
- el Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou
- el Fort Pienc
- el Besos i el Maresme
- el Poblenou