Exactly at 110 m (one minute walk) from this nice apartment for rent, you have a treasure. One of those treasures that Barcelona keeps jealously behind thick stone walls on its block courtyards in Eixample.

Emma’s Gardens before housed a nursing home owned by the Little Sisters of Charity. But today, the first Abbess of Saint John is presented in alabaster decorated with a crown of stars. The whole garden revolves around her, as she stays straight and calm under the towering palm trees and the silence, only broken when children assault the playground after school.

I wonder what strange power the gardens have to stop time ... Emma seems to know it. But like Barcelona does, she jealously keeps the secret inside her silence of stone.