Jordi’s images also feature the visionary and pioneering design of Ildefons Cerdà, whose incorporation of traffic, transport, sunlight, and ventilation as equal factors in civic design made way for the Eixample District. The broad streets, his characteristic octagonal buildings, and the straight-lined grids of Cerdà’s style lie in sharp contrast to the typical Roman layout of the famous Barri Gotic (Gothic Quarter).

Here, visitors can easily lose themselves in the labyrinthine alleyways that shoot off one of Barcelona’s main attractions: the tree-lined pedestrian mall known as La Rambla.