Walking between works of art

It is a veritable open-air museum: the monumental pantheons, the marble sculptures, the layout and the decoration of the site are the work of some of the best sculptors and architects of the I9th century.

The first part, which follows the design of the Italian architect Antonio Ginesi, has a Neoclassical style and is laid out symmetrically around two streets in the form of a cross, producing four blocks. A monument to the victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic in 1821 stands at the crossroads.

The cemetery of the powerful classes

In 1849 the architect Joan Nolla was commissioned to create a second part, exclusively for well-off families.Here members of the most powerful dynasties in Barcelona are buried and there are many valuable sculptures from the second half of the  I9th century, in a Neoclassical, Modernista or eclectic style.