Old Hospital de la Santa Creu

This guide to the Old Hospital de la Santa Creu in Barcelona follows an ordinary evening in June 1926: an old man in shabby clothes, struck by a passing tram on Gran Via, no papers on him, refused by taxi drivers who mistook him for a beggar. You'll hear how the hospital's staff took him in among the indigent without recognizing who he was, and how the building had been receiving Barcelona's sick and poor since 1401, when the city merged six smaller hospitals after a plague. A story about attention, and about who gets seen.