**************barcelona hostel barcelona *BARCELONA ROOMS* your place to stay ! home       < HOME                 BARCELONA- EIXAMPLE ESQUERRA Barcelona, more than just a single city, is really a collection of multi-faceted and diverse cities. The visitor unfamiliar with its history might be surprised that such a modern and enterprising city preserves its historic Gothic center almost intact, or by the curious contrast between the maze of narrow streets and the grid-like layout of the Eixample, the urban planning "Enlargement" project of the end of the 19th century. Work started in 1859 on what became known as the Ensanche in Castilian- in Catalan, the EIXAMPLE , or "Widening". It was soon a fashionable area in which to live, and the moneyed classes started moving from their cramped quarters by the port in the old town to spacious new apartments and business addresses.  As the money in the city moved north, so did a new class of modernista architects who began to pepper the  Eixample with ever-more striking examples of their work, which were eagerly commissioned by status-conscious merchants and businessmen. These buildings - most notably the work of Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch , but others too, are often still in private hands, restricting your viewing to the outside, but they turn the Eixample into a huge urban museum around which it's a pleasure to wander. The Eixample is the modernist residential and commercial area. It is very well connected, and from here you can easily walk or take buses or taxis to the Gothic Quarter and Las Ramblas for attractions such as the Picasso museum and the Cathedral There are endless restaurants and street cafes to relax in throughout the area, which is full of stunning modernist buildings adorned with intricate stone and iron facades. Metro Station right in the corner of our house, STOP "Urgell"   The AeroBus takes you direct from the Airport of Barcelona till the corner of our house, STOP "Urgell". your place to stay ! +34 938 14 27 36, +34 933 232 938, +34 629 12 73 72, +34 629 159 759 WWW.BARCELONAROOMS.NET