Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

This guide to the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona starts in 1802, when King Charles the Fourth ordered the city's destitute rounded up and walled into an almshouse on this site. It traces the Casa de Caritat through more than a century and a half of confinement, including the Pati de les Dones, the women's courtyard run by nuns of the Vedruna order from 1829, up to the hospice's closure in 1957. You'll also hear about the architects who later reimagined the site with a leaning glass wall over that same courtyard.