Barcelona hotels collection

Seen from above, the blocks of the Eixample all have their corners cut off: Cerdà drew them that way so that steam trams could turn, and every crossroads has taken on the breadth of a small square. In La Ribera, Santa Maria del Mar rises in Montjuïc stone, which the dockside porters carried on their backs to the site; the bronze of the doors has kept their likeness. Gràcia, once a village, still has its squares and low houses. Behind the city, Collserola keeps its pines and holm oaks; from up there, the grid runs down to the sea, cut on the slant by the Diagonal.