Magical places to visit in Barcelona
Surely since you settled in your student residence you have already known the main tourist places in the city. And probably also the main leisure areas… If now you want to discover mysterious places in Barcelona even for local residents, we will tell you about some secret places, the first one right next to your student residence, are you curious?
Every day when you go from the student residence to the university, you have probably taken the metro in Sagrada Familia, which is just 50 meters from the entrance of the residence. You already know all the stops on the route…. Insurance? Do you know the Gaudí station? Surely as much as you look at the subway map you can not locate it, and it is a ghost station, which did not open its doors to the public. But this is not the only mystery related to our most famous architect.
Every day you spend in front of the Sagrada Familia, it is a luxury to have your student residence right next to the most magical monument in the city): but all of Gaudí's work, both the Sagrada Familia and the Casa Batlló or Park Güell are plagued of Masonic mysteries and symbols, which normally go unnoticed. This fact even made some experts suspect about Gaudí's connection with the Masonic movement.
We now move to the Gothic quarter to discover what Estruc street hides. It receives this name thanks to a famous 10th century magician, the magician Sacanera. In this street you can still find a plaque located in the place where the magician had his store. I walk down this street without missing a detail and we count if you have found a curious curious stone with runes at the beginning of the street or some of the amount of magical details distributed on the facades of its buildings.
In addition to mysterious symbolisms, in Barcelona there are also stories of curses and ghosts, such as the curse that is suggested around the El Gran Teatro del Liceo, where it is said that prohibited mask dances were held. This famous theater has been destroyed or burned several times throughout history, the last time in 1994.
We now end up outside Barcelona, in the nearby town of Terrassa with the most eerie building in the city, which has even been the scene of several horror films. This is the Thorax Hospital, a center that housed a large number of terminally ill patients with respiratory diseases. The sick are said to have thrown themselves from the ninth floor into the garden, nicknamed the Jungle. What a story.
Do you know other mysteries to solve Barcelona? Tell us!
