Plaça de la Hispanitat has a distinguished neighbourhood. “Balcons de Barcelona” is an optical illusion that hides a dividing wall. A remarkable artwork (street art) of 450 m2, commissioned by the Barcelona City Council to an artist cooperative from Lyon, CitéCréation.

You probably know this neighbourhood with such recognizable faces. The writer Mercè Rodoreda. The music plays with Carmen Amaya, Josep Anselm Clavé, Pau Casals and Antonio Machín. The balcony reserved for the theatre with Àngel Guimerà and Margarida Xirgú. The visual art is represented by Santiago Rusiñol and Pablo Picasso. Architects like Antoni Gaudí and Ildefonso Cerdà; Presidents of the Generalitat de Catalunya such as Francesc Macià, Lluís Companys and Josep Tarradellas. The Catalan literature with Pompeu Fabra and Joan Maragall. And we even found Christopher Columbus!