Església de Sants Just i Pastor

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  • Address
    Plaça de Sant Just 5, Barri Gòtic
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Liceu

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Lonely Planet review

This single-nave church was built in 1342 in Catalan Gothic style, with chapels on either side of the buttressing. It boasts some fine stained-glass windows. On Plaça de Sant Just, in front of the church, bubbles a water fountain dating from 1367. Gaudí was arrested here one day for not speaking Spanish to a copper.

On the morning of 11 September 1924 Antoni Gaudí was arrested as he attempted to enter the church to attend Mass. In these days of the dictatorship of General Primo de Rivera, it took little to ruffle official feathers, and Gaudí's refusal to speak Castilian (Spanish) earned him the better part of a day in the cells until a friend came to pay a fine and set him free. In front of the church is what is claimed to be the city's oldest Gothic fountain.