Word: collserola
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...purify the body and boost energy levels, before being led to the sauna?the best seat in the house. With one wall entirely made of glass, the women's sauna overlooks a magnificent panorama of the Mediterranean, while men can gaze at the buzzing Catalan city below and the Collserola hills to the north...
...second boom occurred at the height of Barcelona's industrial prosperity and misery, between 1860 and 1910. Its main frame, the huge grid of chocolate- square blocks that stretches from the Barri Gotic up the slope toward the Collserola hills, was designed in 1859 by a socialist engineer named Ildefons Cerda. It is known as the Eixample, or Enlargement, and is the ancestor of all the Utopian schemes of 20th century architecture. The cultural contents of this grid, as it developed, proved no less remarkable. The trade-obsessed city of powerful clerics and stuffy businessmen was the closest place...
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