The new parish church, dedicated to Santa Eulàlia de Mérida, was built around 1400 within the grounds of the Hospital de la Torre Blanca or Santa Cándida, where most of the population had settled, especially in the current streets Major and Xipreret.
“"In view of the fact that the parish church of Santa Eulàlia de Provençana, (…), originated long ago in the place where it now stands, since the place was then populated; and that successively due to some banditry and even more so due to deaths of men who were full of ostensible sins, the place became depopulated and the dwellings near said church were demolished, while the mentioned church remained solitary and the rest of the parishioners very far and separated."
This decision, driven by the rector and residents of the Pobla, certified an existing demographic reality: the population had consolidated around the Hospital and not the old church. This consolidation continued over the following decades, with documents from 1446 already mentioning the new church in the town 'del Spitalet'.
The growing importance of the new nucleus was officially recognized in 1450, when Queen Maria granted the inhabitants the legal capacity to establish taxes. Later, in 1475, the heads of household drafted 'les ordinacions', a set of their own legal norms that, despite having little initial influence, laid the legal foundations for the city we know today as L'Hospitalet.
