communication routes. The plan was to build on two sides of each square only, leaving the other two sides and the insides as green areas. Moreover, the houses were to be only three floors high, thus making it possible for the sun to reach the ground-floor houses. At the same time, Cerdà, a non-utopian socialist, and showing great rigour, planned the distribution of the service areas, such as the market, social and administrative centres, churches and others, spreading them out evenly and fairly to facilitate access and proximity for future residents. The gothic church of La Concepció was built, or rebuilt, in 1871 relocated stone by stone from its former site inside the old city. In 1884, the City Council of Barcelona bought all the land of the block next to it (the streets of Aragón/Bruc/València/Girona), which belonged mainly to Joan Pla i Moreau. This purchase stemmed from the need to site a market at that point - even although Ildefons Cerdà had not initially envisaged this – since the are had become the most populated area focal point in the new Eixample. At that time, the area now known as the Derecha (Right Side) del Eixample, was a bourgeois district,     Mercat de la Concepció · Aragó, 313-317 · 08009 Barcelona · Telf: 93.457.53.29 / 675 693 616 info@laconcepcio.com · NIF: G58241852