Barcelona - Plaça Sant Felip Neri

The Plaça Felip Neri was named after the Italian Filippo Neri (1515-95) who was canonized in 1622 and who founded the Order of Oratorians in 1575. The Barcelona congregation (commonly known as "Felipons") was founded towards the end of the 17th century; the monastery was built in 1673 and remodeled in the 18th century. Typical of the Counter-Reformation, it shows Baroque influence, something of a rarity in Barcelona. The exterior walls have bullet-holes sustained in the Civil War, when a number of Oratorian monks were shot.