From Avinguda Diagonal, Travessera de Gràcia cuts through the old streets of Gràcia, skirts across the uppermost edge of the chamfered grid of L'Eixample, and finishes at Domènech i Montaner's Hospital de la Santa Creu i de Sant Pau (1901-30). The streets it passes are named after Catalan historians, politicians, painters, philosophers, poets, saints, old watercourses ... Jaime Calvet, Felipe Sagués, Eduard Amigó de Lara, Rupert Santaló i Vinyals , Ramon Muntaner de Sesfàbregues, Josep Llovera i Bofill, Bonaventura Carles Aribau i Farriols, Alfons XII, Jaume Llucià Balmes i Urpià, Emperor Augustas, Neptune (Poseidon), the archangel Gabriel, Sant Cristòfol, Pere Serafí, Sant Joaquim father of the Virgin (but also named after Joaquim Mas), human castle builders, a charcoal burning society, Torrent de l'Olla, Maria de los Reyes de la Barre i Díaz de Manso, José María Torrijos, Can Vidalet, Antoni Montmany i Albornà, Joan Blanques, Torrent de les Flors, Joaquim Ruyra i Oms, Hipòlit Lázaro i Higueras, Joan de Coloma, Torrent de Mariner, Ignasi Ventalló i Llobateras, Caterina Nogués i Tapís, the island of Sardinia, the merchant and military navy, the naval battle of the Gulf of Lepanto (or Corinth) in 1571 against the Turks, Juan de Padilla, the valley of Los Castillejos where General Prim fought against the Moroccans the first day of 1860, Cartagena, town in Murcia, capital of the Roman province of Carthaginiensis.
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