Cerdà , the engineer behind Barcelona’s Eixample , lies here in the Cementiri de Montjuïc . His gravestone is a marble slab that mirrors the grid of the Eixample, turning the “manzana” into a memorial. The funny thing is that this Barcelona was not guaranteed. Cerdà’s plan was chosen over Antoni Rovira i Trias’ more radial and monumental proposal, which had actually won the city’s 1859 expansion competition. Interestingly you can see here how he originally intended the blocks to be o pen on at least one of its sides! More idea about how this idea turned out and how Barcelona deals with this h…
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