Santa Anna Church - Barcelona - 21
The church of Santa Anna, a few meters from the popular Plaza Catalunya, has an intimate, almost clandestine, look. As a matter of fact during Napoleon’s invasion it was closed by the French, and it seems that it was used by the Catalan resistance against the invaders.
It is a place hidden from people, and even, one might say, from time, and you get into it by crossing a little square, completely surrounded by modern buildings. It has two doors, one that opens on to Santa Anna Street and the other onto Ribadeneyra street, and both are shut during the night giving more protection and mystery to the building.
The church is part of an old convent and still keeps part of the original buildings attached, a beautiful cloister with a garden and a chapter room.
Santa Anna Church - Barcelona - 21
The church of Santa Anna, a few meters from the popular Plaza Catalunya, has an intimate, almost clandestine, look. As a matter of fact during Napoleon’s invasion it was closed by the French, and it seems that it was used by the Catalan resistance against the invaders.
It is a place hidden from people, and even, one might say, from time, and you get into it by crossing a little square, completely surrounded by modern buildings. It has two doors, one that opens on to Santa Anna Street and the other onto Ribadeneyra street, and both are shut during the night giving more protection and mystery to the building.
The church is part of an old convent and still keeps part of the original buildings attached, a beautiful cloister with a garden and a chapter room.