Designed by Leandro Albareda in 1880, this enormous necropolis sits at the side of the motorway, as a daily reminder to commuters of their own mortality....

In 1326, the widowed Queen Elisenda of Montcada used her inheritance to buy this land and build a convent for the Poor Clare order of nuns, which she soon...

Send Gaudí and the Sagrada Família to hell,' wrote Picasso - and while it is easy to see how some of the religious clichés of the building and the...

The name St Paul in the Field reflects a time when the Raval was still countryside. In fact, this little Romanesque church is over 1,000 years old; the date...

One of the most perfect surviving examples of the Catalan Gothic style, this graceful basilica stands out for its characteristic horizontal lines, plain...

The main synagogue of the Call until the pogrom of 1391, this tiny basement building lay abandoned for many years, until its rediscovery and restoration in...