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With the popular name of Desert Sarria, known public garden at the end of Paseo de Santa Eulalia.
According to tradition, Santa Eulalia lived in this place then called "Terre sanctae Eulaliae." Imagine a Roman house the fourth century, when the whole desert was full of trees and a fountain highly visited by locals procession to take the water that gave them health and luck.
Later, as we said, this estate was transferred to the Capuchins in 1578, which made it a mystical garden full of trees and clay figures. In the late nineteenth century Josep Ricart and Josep Maria Sert founded an asylum for people with disabilities.

Information from the publication "Itineraries: Sarria: Old" published by the district of Sarria-Sant Gervasi in 2007 by the author M. Palau-Ribes.

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