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Nova Square
In 1355 the fields which surround
the Roman city are converted into a square which in
1358 takes the name by which we now know it. In 1939
a series of alterations begin which end in 1991, giving
it its present-day form.
- The Architects’
Association building, façade and interior with engravings
by Picasso-Nesjar. 
- Lateral façade of the Episcopal
Palace 
- Portal del Bisbe
- The sculptural group Barcino
by Joan Brossa
- Aqueduct
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The
Cathedral Avenue
The continuation of Nova Square,
this eminently civic area - suitable for strolls, craft
fairs, local activities, parties, etc. - offers a vision
of a collection of buildings that, presided over by
the Cathedral, anticipate what we will find upon entering
the alleyways of the district.
- Rear façade of the Casa
de l'Ardiaca (Archdeacon’s House)
- Lateral façade of the Casa
del Degà (Dean’s House)
- Lateral façade of the Pia
Almoina
- Roman Wall
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Tapineria
Street
The name of the street has
its origins in the ‘tapins’ (a type of cork sandal with
a leather covering and cloth upper used by women in
the Middle Ages ), as it was the street where the cobblers
worked.
Nowadays the street is divided by Ramon Berenguer Square
with both parts still following the wall.
- Roman Tower
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Ramon
Berenguer Square
Probably the most impressive
place in Old Barcelona, because of the great stretch
of the city wall to be seen here as well as the concentration
of Gothic buildings against it, always presided over
by Ramon Berenguer III, who gives the square its name.
- Statue of Ramon
Berenguer III
- Roman Wall
- Wall Towers
- Lateral façade of the Royal Palace
- Lateral façade of the Chapel of Saint Agatha
- Rear façade of the Clariana-Padellàs House
We continue along the second part of Tapineria Street
until we reach the:
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Àngel
Square
The former entrance gate to
the city in the Roman Wall, it takes its name from the
angel which was put there in the 17th century as a memorial
to the miracle of the Archangel Saint Michael, who appeared
at the moment of the moving of the body of Saint Eulàlia.
The original angel can be found in the History of the
City Museum.
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Sots-Tinent
Navarro Street
Popularly known as the "Street
of the Roman Walls", it is easy to imagine what characterises
it.
- Roman Wall
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Traginers
Square
So called because this was
where the muleteers lived.
- Roman Tower
- Roman Wall
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Regomir
Street
The origin of this name isn’t
clear as it could come from Rei Gamir ( head of the
forces which defended the city when it was conquered
by Lluís el Piadós in 804 ), or it might have derived
from the Rec Mir, the name given to it when, at the
start of the 11th century, Count Mir ordered the restoration
of the old irrigation system to take advantage of the
water, discharged afterwards into the Merdancà (one
of the rivers that flowed around the walled city).
- Saint Cristòfol
Chapel
- Roman Door
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The
Llimona Courtyard
This small square takes its
name from Tomàs Llimona, who acquired the building to
which it belongs in 1779.
- The Pati Llimona
Civic Centre
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Avinyó
Street
The name of this street is
probably taken from Lluís d’Avinyó, author of a history
of Catalonia in 1400.
It could also come from Mossèn Avinyó, a knight poet
of the 15th century.
- Roman Wall inside the headquarters of the Ethnological
and Folkloric Mountaineering Association
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Call
Street
The "Call" used to be the Jewish
Quarter until a night in 1391 when they were victims
of a riot and more than a thousand died. In 1401 they
were expelled completely.
- Roman Tower inside the shop
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Banys
Nous Street
The Banys Nous ( New Baths
) were situated in this street at the corner with Boqueria
Street.
- Roman Wall in the headquarters of the Sínia Job Centre
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Palla
Street
The name dates from the 14th
century. It was there, in Plaça Nova, where the unit
of measurement for weighing straw was established.
- Roman Wall
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Saint
Llúcia Street
Name of the Saint ( Syracuse
283 - 304 ) , to whom the chapel in this street was
dedicated by the city.
- Chapel of Saint
Llúcia
- Casa de l'Ardiaca
(The Archdeacon’s House)
- Lateral façade of the Casa
del Degà (Dean’s House)
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Pla de la Seu
So called through being in
front of the cathedral of Barcelona, this square was
formed between the years 1421 - 1422 with the demolition
of the former house of the Dean and some Canons’ houses,
together with a segment of Roman wall which supported
them.
At that time the steps were built which lead to the
Avenue of the Cathedral (formerly Corribia Street, the
old outer road of the walled enclosure).
- Casa del Degà
- The Cathedral
- Pia Almoina
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Comtes
Street
The palace of the Counts of
Barcelona gives the street its name.
- Saint Iu Door
- Frederic Marès Museum
- Palace of the Lieutenant
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Rei Square
Giving access to the Royal
Palace and the Royal Chapel no other name was possible
or this space which has been defined as "the most
noble urban element of the old Barcelona".
- Lateral façade of the
Palace of the Lieutenant
- The Royal Palace
- The Chapel of Saint Agatha
- The sculpture Topo by Chillida
- Clariana-Padellàs House (Museu d'Història de la
Ciutat)
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Paradís
Street
The atrium of the primitive
Cathedral ( 6th century ), commonly known as ‘paradís’
(paradise), used to be above what is now the street.
- Columns of the Temple of Augustus
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Sant
Jaume Square
The point at which the two
main streets of the Roman City crossed, nowadays host
to the two most important political institutions of
the city, the Town Council and the Autonomous Government.
Its present-day appearance is the work of the progressive
municipal council in 1823.
- Barcelona Town
Hall
- Palau de la Generalitat (The Autonomous Government
Palace)
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Bisbe
Street
The principal artery of the
Roman city, this street continues to be one of the great
thoroughfares of Gothic Barcelona and is the present-day
link between Nova Square and Sant Jaume Square, two
of the nerve-centres for today’s inhabitants.
- Portal del Bisbe
- The Door of Santa Eulàlia giving access to the Cathedral
cloisters
- Lateral façade of the Palau de la Generalitat (The
Autonomous Government Palace )
- Lateral façade of the Casa dels Canonges (Canon’s
House)
- Mock Gothic bridge
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Garriga
i Bachs Square
Andreu Garriga i Bachs donated
a house owned by him in Bisbe Street. This was subsequently
demolished to enable the construction of a square intended
for the siting of the monument which presides over it.
- Monument to the
Martyrs of 1809
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Sant
Felip Neri Square
The square takes the name of
the saint ( Jesuit preacher, Florence 1515 - Rome 1595
) because the church which dominates the area is dedicated
to him.
In the middle of the square, where the cemetery of Montjuïc
del Bisbe used to be, there is a fountain which helps
to give this square the charm and poetry which in themselves
make it worthy of a visit.
- The Church of Sant Felip Neri
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The Museum of Footwear
And we complete the tour when we arrive at the Portal
del Bisbe.
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