Ciutadella Park

It stands on the site of the military citadel that Philip V ordered after Barcelona fell in 1714, which the city demolished in the 19th century. It became a park for the 1888 Universal Exhibition, entered through the Arc de Triomf.

It has a boating lake, the Catalan Parliament, iron greenhouses and a monumental fountain on which a student Gaudí worked as assistant to the architect Josep Fontserè. It is the great green lung of the centre.