I really love Barcelona! It has grown on me. What I love most is that it has a lot of nooks and crannies just like Edinburgh. You go down a narrow street and there's always something interesting. You might come to a plaza with restaurants, an old church. There are vintage shops, strange little shops along its narrow side street. I found a shop that only sold condoms. Won't be needin' any of those but interesting... Then I found a shop that sold crucifixes, baby Jesuses, saint statues, etc that was 104 years old.
The Roman city of Barcino was founded in 15 BC. A wall was built around the city at that time. In the 3rd Century and 2nd wall was built incorporating more land and in the 13th century yet another wall. Apparently you can never have too many walls.
I love this ancient history. It's so cool that there are parts of ancient walls from 15 BC that you can still see. In the Placa Nova in the gothic quarter there is an entry point, which was one of four, to the original walled city. One of the main roads of the original city started here.There are still two towers there. There is also evidence of the arches of 2 aqueducts that came together here that provided the city with water.
A bishops palace is attached to the wall here. There is also a cathedral. This where Barcelona began
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October 26, 2022 at 09:
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