Add to ORKGNineteenth-century Europe was characterised by a clear drive towards secularism, which provoked a religious reaction that reached its apex in the final decades of the century and was represented by artists such as Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) or institutions such as the Güell Colony or the Sant Boi de Llobregat Mental Hospital. To understand this process of religious affirmation, it is also crucial to remember some significant movements, such as the new cult of Our Lady of Lourdes. The Sant Boi de Llobregat Mental Hospital Modernist garden contains architectural elements with some formal characteristics and symbolic content analogous or equivalent to different parts of the most important works Gaudí was constructing dur...