Església de la Mare de Déu de Betlem
Baroque church facade of carved Jesuit saints and a nativity scene, rebuilt after fires in sixteen seventy-one and nineteen thirty-six.
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This guide to the Església de la Mare de Déu de Betlem in Barcelona starts at the main door, with a stone nativity carved by Francesc Santacruz, and goes back to the Jesuits who first built a church on this spot in the fifteen-fifties. Along the way you'll meet the twisted columns, the saints sculpted by Andreu Sala, and the Baroque painters whose work once filled the interior. Best heard standing on the Rambla side, facing the stone.
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