This landscaped area, one of the most open in this quarter, is situated in the most southerly part of the monastery, adjacent to Avinguda Pedralbes. The most visible element is a Gothic-styled wayside cross, standing spectacularly on a monumental nine-side column, . It is found on a remarkable and inaccessible spot, offering most of the visitors their first sight of the Monastery. In 1945, the Junta Diocesana de Acción Católica commissioned the architects Lluís Bonet and Josep M. Sagnier to build this monumental cross as a means of paying homage to all the crosses that had been pulled down during the Civil War. There is a second sculptural element, almost hidden from view, situated next to the Monastery wall. It is the memorial put up by Barcelona in 1954 to the Huntingtons, the North American founders of the Hispanic Society of America, with close ties to Catalonia.