Plaça dels Lluïsos

The owners of the land, Ramon Martí and Pau Vilaregut, commissioned the architect and urban planner Antoni Rovira i Trias (responsible for a lot of the town planning) to develop this square around 1851. It houses the building owned by Lluïsos de Gràcia, a historical neighbourhood association founded in 1855 and still active today, with over 1,300 members. The La Salle de Gràcia school stands right next to it.

A true square

The square was remodelled several times during the last century. It is partially paved and retains a patch of sand in the middle. The last redevelopment, in 2000, gave it the look it has now, somewhere between a park and a garden with two levels, a mixture of paving and sand, surrounded by tipuanas with patches of grass on one side. You can still see a fountain with a Doric column there, with a relief of the old coat of arms, from when this was a town, separate from Barcelona.