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Sheltered wall southernmost monastery and the spectacular Cross shelter Pedralbes, you can admire the bucolic gardens surrounding the majestic Cross out.
The colorful cross Pedralbes, spectacularly prepared in isolation and the strategic confluence of BC. Pedralbes avenue. Esplugues and Carrer del Bisbe Catalan, is beautifully restored on a new monumental column vain in the middle of a garden inacessible.
Romance aesthetic basis, the transept is a modern element commissioned in 1945 by the Diocesan Board of Catholic Action architects Lluís Bonet and Josep M. Sagnier, to honor all boundary crosses that had been demolished during the Civil War.
Gardens and Huntington
Gardens located in the shelter of the wall southernmost monastic enclosure is a garden area which houses a second sculptural element that remains almost hidden from public view. The space surrounded by flowering shrubs hide Huntigton the monument, a tribute to the Barcelona Archer Milton Huntington, founder of the Hispanic Society of America, and his wife, the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, already in the 1954 demonstrated the close ties of marriage with American Catalonia.
The monument is a work of Enric Monjo i Garriga (1896-1976) structured as a monolith of granite with a bronze medallion with effigies of Huntington. Under the medallion is the inscription BARCELONA / A / AM HVNTINGTON / Hispanistas egregios / MCMLIV.

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