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The Gothic Quarter: Saints, Kings and the Call
In Plaça de Sant Just, the morning in 1924 when the police took Gaudí away; in Plaça de Sant Jaume, two balconies and an April afternoon in 1931.
Legends and Mysteries, Under Scrutiny in Barcelona: audio walks
What's told, since when, and how much of it is true?
5 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
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Barcelona tells legends, and also repeats stories as though they were evidence. These walks look closely at those accounts: what is said, how long it has been said and what can be supported. They keep curiosity and mystery alive while distinguishing a tradition from an explanation added to a place at a later date.
In “From the Palau to Ciutadella”: The legendary abbess and attributions to Gaudí let you compare repeated tales with the history of buildings and their makers.
In “La Rambla, from Canaletas”: The Boqueria was meant to be an arcaded square and ended up under a roof; an umbrella seller put a Japanese dragon on his shopfront; and at the Liceu, on an opening night in 1893, a man came in from the side street with two bombs.
In “The Gothic Quarter”: In Plaça de Sant Just, the morning in 1924 when the police took Gaudí away; in Plaça de Sant Jaume, two balconies and an April afternoon in 1931.
Choose from 5 independent walks in Barcelona. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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From the Palau de la Música to Ciutadella Park
The legendary abbess and attributions to Gaudí let you compare repeated tales with the history of buildings and their makers.
The Gothic Quarter That Was Built in the Twentieth Century
In the Plaça del Rei, a Gothic mansion that arrived from another street and, when its foundations were dug, uncovered the Roman city; and a great medieval hall that lay hidden inside a nuns' church until 1936.
La Rambla, from Canaletas to the Sea
The Boqueria was meant to be an arcaded square and ended up under a roof; an umbrella seller put a Japanese dragon on his shopfront; and at the Liceu, on an opening night in 1893, a man came in from the side street with two bombs.
The Raval: Legends and Dark Chronicles
On Carrer del Carme, the surgeons' marble table and the house of a merchant of legend.
Barcelona, before you go
A city worth looking up for, with pavements worth watching too. Between narrow lanes, long avenues and a break by the sea, leave room in the day to sit down.
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