Close up of Església de les Saleses

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Església de les Saleses

L'Eixample


A singular neo-Gothic effort, this church is interesting because it was designed by Joan Martorell i Montells (1833–1906), Gaudí’s architecture professor. Raised in 1878–85 with an adjacent convent (badly damaged in the civil war and now a school), it offers hints of what was to come with Modernisme, with the creative use of brick, mosaics and stained glass.

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