Social event & Gala dinner

Social Event

The social event will consist of a cultural visit to the complex "Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau". The guide will introduce the visitants to the history of the building and will make a tour by the facilities.

The (Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul) in the neighborhood of El Guinardó, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, is a complex built between 1901 and 1930. It is one of the most prominent works of the Catalan modernisme architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. The complex was listed as a Conjunto Histórico in 1978. Together with Palau de la Música Catalana, it is declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. Being composed of 12 pavilions connected through long underground galleries within its large green space, Sant Pau is the largest complex built in Art Nouveau style. It was a fully functioning hospital until June 2009, when the new hospital opened next to it, before undergoing restoration for use as a museum and cultural center, which opened in 2014. Besides being an important historical and architectural masterpiece, the building also offers workspaces high-profile social organizations such as WHO, Banco Farmacéutico, Barcelona Health Hub, EMEA, UN-HABITAT and more. The cultural center also has an historical archive in which the records and documents of remarkable occurrences related to the hospital and the city can be found. The archives are open for visiting and offers information to users and researchers with the information and reprographics service, in addition to a reading room.

Gala Dinner

The gala dinner will take place in the famous "El Cangrejo Loco" restaurant. Sited in the Olympic Harbor, it offers typical mediterranean cuisine in a fresh maritime atmosphere.

On July 16, 1992, on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Barcelona 92, "The Crazy Crab" started its activity in the Olympic Port in Barcelona, a marina created to host the Olympic sailing. It is now considered one of the areas of reference of the new post-92 Barcelona.