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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.

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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.

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