Health in the Raval: A history of more than 500 years (Barcelona)

The Raval has been, since almost the beginning of Barcelona's history, a space designed to host charitable and health institutions. Since the establishment within its perimeter of the Hospital de Santa Creu, the different institutions that have been installed have been giving character to the neighborhood until well into the twentieth century, when the new hygienic trends postulated the agreement to transfer health and charitable services to the outdoor areas of the city. "Health in the Raval: a history of more than 500 years" will follow the traces of a long health history in the neighborhood through its buildings - starting in the twelfth century in the old Hospital de Sant Llàtzer and ending in the twentieth century in the anti-tuberculous dispensary - and its protagonsites: greyhounds, poor, orphans, brothels, fatus, epileptics, prevented, abnormal, tuberculous, helpless...

Directed by Laura Valls