La Casa de Convalescència_Seu de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans
The Casa de Convalescència de Sant Pau, the historical and current headquarters of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, is a magnificent 17th-century civil building designed for the convalescence of the patients of the neighbouring Hospital de la Santa Creu. Initially, it housed seven men and five women.
Although the first stone was laid by Bishop Sentís on March 26, 1629, it was more than thirty years before it was inaugurated, on January 24 and 25, 1680.
The initial project of the building, which was later reduced, provided for three floors: on the ground floor, dining rooms, kitchens, pantry and oven; on the first floor, the two bedrooms - one for men and the other for women-, the secretes and the chapel, and on the upper floor, the cloakroom. It also included a cloister and a super cloister.
The Casa de Convalescència was a clear improvement in care for convalescent patients. By the end of the 17th century, it had two hundred iron beds, four hundred mattresses and paintings to "please the eye", and the sick who could take them gave them meat and dessert. The link between the Casa de Convalescència and the hospital continued until the early 20th century.
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