cerdà

Jordi-Pere Cerdà was awarded Catalonia’s highest distinctions, including the National Prize for Literature, the Cross of Sant Jordi and the Prize of Honour of Catalan Letters. He wrote under the pseudonym Antoni Cayrol and was one of the main Catalan voices of the Roussillon.

The Barcelona ‘Time Capsule’, a project developed as part of the Cerdà Year, will remain sealed until the year 2159. This date marks the 300th anniversary of the approval of Ildefons Cerdà’s Plan for the Reform and Development of Barcelona, when the Eixample neighbourhood was designed