Recovered water tower courtyard

This is the postcard version of an Interior d’illa (Barcelona’s public block-interior courtyards). A hidden green space inside the Eixample grid, anchored by a dramatic brick water tower, and used today as real public space rather than private decorative green. What matters is not just the tower. It is the principle. This garden was not always public. It became accessible only after the city recovered the interior and opened it up in the late 1980s, making it one of the early proof points that Barcelona could bring back parts of Cerdà’s courtyard vision . For the wider story of how Barcelona …