Dallas Morning News
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BARCELONA, Spain - As luck would have it, I stayed at a hotel in L'Eixample, the district that grew in the 1850s as a northern extension of Barcelona's Old City. In that period, Modernisme, or Spain's version of Art Nouveau, was all the rage. The nouveau riche employed brilliant architects to design their houses and apartment buildings. So L'Eixample became home to several high-profile examples of the movement's wild and crazy architecture, including Antoni Gaudí's masterpiece, Sagrada Familia. Most visitors know not to miss the world-famous church. But there are several other moderniste buildings in the neighborhood that are worth checking out.
