Hektoen International

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Tag: Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

  • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 600 years of history

    Rosa Monteserín NadalEap Sardenya, Barcelona, Spain The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona is the oldest hospital in Spain. It was founded in 1401, after a pest plague and famine caused six medieval hospitals in Barcelona to merge and form the Hospital de la Santa Creu. This functioned until the 1930s,…