Sants has a wide array of restaurants in all price ranges and catering to all tastes. Apart from the traditional ones, the new Las Arenas Shopping Centre, right next to the neighbo[...]
Casimir Casaramona commissioned the famous architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch to design a factory for his textile-production enterprise. In addition to being a widely acknowledged ar[...]
Until well into the 20 century, the lands now occupied by this versatile park housed a large textile factory with the same name that the park inherited 13 . Thanks to a neighbourho[...]
Joan Miró Park 10 , also known popularly by its former name, Parc de l’Escorxador, is located at the end of Carrer Tarragona, next to the new Arenas 11 shopping centre and ne[...]
Plaça Espanya This is not only the beginning of the Hostafrancs and Sants neighbourhoods, but also the gateway to Barcelona’s convention centres Fira de Barcelona (Montjuic) 5 . It[...]
Carrer de Sants No one would imagine that the streets of Sants and Creu Coberta 4 , whose four kilometres make up one of Europe’s largest commercial hubs, was, until well into the [...]
Mercat de Sants Inaugurated in 1913, this modernist-style building combines iron and brick like the majority of Barcelona’s markets. The façade is decorated with ceramic tiles disp[...]
The Sants and Hostafrancs neighbourhoods are located close to Montjuïc, with its borders lying between Plaça Espanya and the adjacent city of Hospitalet. Sants was an independent t[...]