Hospital de la Santa Cruz

Today: Antiguo Hospital de la Santa Cruz, Barcelona

Place: Barcelona
Kind: Hospital
Built: 1518 to 1764
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The hospital in which the Consell de Cent and the cathedral chapter merged six hospitals of the city in 1401; its 15th-century Gothic core is not counted here. From these years date the great Plateresque door on carrer de l'Hospital (1518), the monumental stairs of the courtyard (1585), the Casa de Convalescència, begun in 1629 and finished in 1680, and the Colegio de Cirugía that Ventura Rodríguez raised in 1764. Today it houses the Library of Catalonia, the Institut d'Estudis Catalans and public libraries.

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