The document describes the history of Roman and medieval architecture in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. It details the construction of the Roman wall in the 3rd century AD and several buildings within the historic district. These include the remains of a Roman temple dedicated to Augustus, medieval structures like churches and the Episcopal Palace, and the Plaça del Rei square with its Gothic buildings. The text also mentions the oldest synagogue in Barcelona from the medieval Jewish quarter.

1. BARCELONA GOTHIC QUARTER -
1 ROMAN AND
ENGLISH JEWISH

2. THE ROMAN WALL OF BARCELONA PROBABLY BUILT BETWEEN 270 AND 310 AD, BECAME ONE
OF BARCINO THE MOST IMPRESSIVE ROMAN WALLS OF THE WEST.

3. THE ROMAN WALL ITS PERIMETER IS ABOUT 1,350 METERS, THE ANCIENT WALL OF ROME
FOUNDING MOMENT OF THE CITY. BARCELONA WAS KNOWN AS THE CITY CROWNED, SINCE IT
HAD 74 TOWERS

4. THE ROMAN WALL TOWERS ARE GENERALLY RECTANGULAR, ALTHOUGH PROTECTING THE
DOORS ARE SEMICIRCULAR. ITS HEIGHT IS 18 METERS AND A WIDTH OF 5.5 TO 6 METERS.

5. THE ROMAN WALLS THESE WALLS THAT DEFENDED THE CITY FOR OVER 600 YEARS, PERHAPS
BECAUSE OF THEM BARCELONA IS THE CAPITAL OF CATALONIA.

6. THE ROMAN WALL MANY HISTORIANS REGARD AS THE MOST IMPORTANT FORTIFICATION IN THE
WESTERN PROVINCE OF ROME.

7. BARCELONA WAS FOUNDED AS A ROMAN COLONY COLONIA IULIA AUGUSTA-BARCINO-FAVENTIA
PATERNA IN THE YEAR 15 AC ITS LOCATION WAS CHOSEN TO BE IN A LOCATION THAT ALLOWED
PORT CONTROL TRADE ATOP A SMALL HILL, THE MONS TABER

8. THE STRETCH OF ROMAN WALL THAT HIDES IN THE BUILDING OF THE CARRER REGOMIR

9. THE ROMAN WALL

10. ROMAN TEMPLE AT THE CENTER OF CATALONIA HIKER PARADISE STREET, 10 WORK OF LLUIS
DOMENECH I MONTANER

11. INSIDE THIS BUILDING HIKING CENTRE OF CATALONIA ARE THE REMAINS OF A ROMAN TEMPLE

12. ROME TEMPLE REMAINS OF ANCIENT ROMAN TEMPLE. ITS ORIGIN DATES BACK TO THE FOUNDING
OF BARCELONA AS A ROMAN COLONY.

13. THE TEMPLE DEDICATED TO AUGUSTUS. THE PRIMITIVE ROMAN TEMPLE, ONLY FOUR OF THE
COLUMNS.

14. TEMPLE ROME WAS A TEMPLE OF 35 M. LONG BY 17.5 M. IN WIDTH. ON A PODIUM ROSE THE
COLUMNS THAT SURROUNDED THE WHOLE PERIMETER

15. AT THIS POINT WAS THE MONS TABER (MOUNT TABOR) THE GREATEST HEIGHT OF THE ROMAN
BARCELONA

16. THE HOUSE CLARIANA PADELLÀS THE HOUSE NOW HOUSES THE MUSEUM OF CITY HISTORY -
MUHBA AND IN YOUR BASEMENT ARE THE REMAINS OF THE ROMAN TOWN OF BARCINO.

17. MUSEUM OF CITY HISTORY XVI CENTURY GOTHIC PALACE BELONGING TO A WEALTHY
MERCHANT AND WAS MOVED STONE BY STONE TO THE PLAÇA DEL REI IN 1930.

18. MUSEUM OF CITY HISTORY - HIGHLIGHTS MUHBA YOUR YARD.

19. HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CITY AREA OF 4000 SQUARE METERS, THE ANCIENT ROMAN CITY, THE
BASE OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST CENTURY AD C AS THE REMAINS OF A
NEIGHBORHOOD DRY CLEANING WORKSHOPS, INSTALLING WINE ETC. .. AND A HIGHER LEVEL OF
THE SIXTH OR SEVENTH CENTURY VISIGOTHIC NECROPOLIS

20. RAMÓN BERENGUER III 1082 - 1131 CALLED THE GREAT, WAS A MEDIEVAL NOBLEMAN WHO
BECAME COUNT OF BARCELONA

21. THE GOTHIC QUARTER IS THE OLDEST PART OF THE CITY AND ITS HISTORIC CENTER. THE
STRUCTURE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD REMAINED INTACT UNTIL THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
PERIOD THAT WILL BRING GREAT CHANGES, AS THE TRANSFORMATION OF PARISH CEMETERIES
IN PUBLIC SQUARES, OR THE DEMOLITION OF THE WALLS.

22. THE PLAÇA DEL REI IS
COMPOSED OF FOUR BUILDINGS:
THE PALAU REIAL MAJOR IT
FORMED THE RESIDENCE OF THE
COUNTS OF BARCELONA LATER
KINGS OF THE CROWN OF
ARAGON
THE SALO'S TINELL BUILT BY
KING PERE CEREMOIÒS BETWEEN
1359 AND 1362 BY MASTER
BUILDER GUILLEM CARBONELL.
RECEPTION TOOK PLACE ON HIS
RETURN FROM HIS TRIP TO
AMERICA, CRISTOBAL COLON BY
FERNANDO AND ISABEL THE
CHAPEL OF ST. AGATHA, THE
YEAR 1302, THE WORK OF KING
JAUME II OF ARAGON
LLOCTINENT THE PALACE OF THE
YEAR 1549 BY KING CARLOS I

23. THE PLAÇA DEL REI IS THE
NOBLEST URBAN SPACE OF OLD
BARCELONA. FOR THE GOTHIC
BUILDINGS AND THE FACADES OF
THE OLD PALACES AND CHAPEL.
ENTRANCE TO THE CAPELLA DE SANTA AGUEDA
GOTHIC

24. CAPELLA DE SANTA ÁGUEDA O CAPELLA REIAL. BUILT ON THE ROMAN WALL OF BARCELONA

25. EL PALAU REIAL MAJOR THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TOWER HUMÀ MARTI, LAST KING OF THE
DYNASTY OF COUNT-KINGS OF BARCELONA.

26. MIRADOR DEL REY MARTI RECTANGULAR TOWER FIVE STORIES HIGH, IN THE YEAR 1155 Í

27. PLAÇA DEL REI ARE LOCATED NOTABLE BUILDINGS MEDIEVAL IT'S A QUIET AND BEAUTIFUL
URBAN SPACE.

28. PLAÇA DEL REI IS A QUIET AND BEAUTIFUL URBAN SPACE

30. THE CATHEDRAL MUSEUM CARRER SANT SEVER IS A MUSEUM DEDICATED TO THE HISTORY
RESTRICTED TO BAROQUE AND CONTEMPORARY ART

31. THE PALAU'S ENTRANCE LLOCTINENT THE PLAÇA DEL REI

32. THE PALAU LLOCTINENT THE YEAR 1549 - 1557 COMMISSIONED ITS CONSTRUCTION BY KING
CHARLES II TO ANTONIO CARBONELL, HAS HOSTED THE GENERAL ARCHIVE OF THE CROWN OF
ARAGON FROM 1836 UNTIL 1994.

33. EL PALAU DEL LLOCTINENT HOSTED THE HOLY INQUISITION

34. EL PALAU DEL LLOCTINENT THE PUERTA DE SANT JORDI IN BRONZE BY SUBIRACHS TO
COMMUNICATE WITH THE FORMER ROYAL PALACE OF THE VICEROY'S PALACE

35. EL PALAU DEL LLOCTINENT

36. EL PALAU DEL LLOCTINENT

37. EL PALAU DEL LLOCTINENT ON THE STONE STEPS, WHICH STAIRWELL IS COVERED BY A
MAGNIFICENT WOODEN COFFERED 1553, REPRESENTING A SHIP CARVED INVERTED

38. EL PALAU DEL LLOCTINENT IT HAS A RECTANGULAR PLAN, WITH THE LOWER FOUR FLOORS OF
LATE GOTHIC STYLE WITH RENAISSANCE ELEMENTS HAS TWO ENTRANCES, ONE IN THE PLAÇA
DEL REI AND ONE IN THE CARRER COMTES

39. CHURCH OF SANT FELIP NERI WAS BUILT BETWEEN 1721 AND 1751. IT HAS AN ADJOINING
CONVENT

40. PLAÇA DE SANT FELIP NERI THE ARCHITECT ANTONI GAUDÍ TOWARD THE GOTHIC QUARTER
AND THE CHURCH OF SANT FELIP NERI, WHERE HE WENT EVERY DAY

41. PLAÇA DE SANT FELIP NERI CHARM IS ITS SIMPLICITY CAPTIVATING. ONLY PEACE AND
TRANQUILITY IN THIS PLACE

42. PLAÇA DE SANT FELIP NERI THE GUILD OF SABATERS HOUSE, WHICH HOUSES THE MUSEUM OF
ANTIC CALCAT

43. PLAÇA DE SANT FELIP NERI ON JANUARY 30, 1938, DURING THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR WAS THE
SCENE OF AN INTENSE BOMBARDMENT BY FRANCO AVIATION, WHICH LEFT STANDING ONLY THE
FACADE AND PART OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE CHURCH. AS A RESULT, THERE WERE 42
FATALITIES

44. THE ESGLÉSIA DELS SANTS
JUST I PASTOR 1342 -1360
GOTHIC CHURCH STANDS ON
THE SPOT WHERE THE FIRST
CHRISTIAN CHURCH EXISTED IN
THE CITY OF THE FOURTH
CENTURY, BUILT ON THE RUINS
OF A ROMAN AMPHITHEATER.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
FACADE AND BELL TOWER ARE
OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
MASTER BUILDER PERE
BLAI, JOAN SAFONT I JOAN
GRANJA

45. LA ESGLÉSIA DELS SANTS JUST I PASTOR

46. SQUARE OF SANT JUST – FONT

47. PALAU MOXO

48. REIAL ACADÈMIA DE BONES LLETRES RECASENS PALAU CARRER IN BISBE CAÇADOR

49. REIAL ACADEMIA DE BONES LLETRES IS A BUILDING THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH
CENTURIES IN GOTHIC STYLE, IS AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION FOUNDED IN 1729 UNDER THE NAME
OF ACADEMIA

50. REIAL ACADEMIA DE BONES LLETRES

51. CASA DE LA PÍA ALMOINA IS A BUILDING THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES IN
GOTHIC STYLE, IS AN ACADEMIC INSTITUTION FOUNDED IN 1729 UNDER THE NAME OF
ACADEMIA.

52. CASA DE LA PÍA ALMOINA CASA DELS CANONGES CONSISTS OF TWO SECTIONS: THE
GOTHIC, BUILT IN 1435, AND THE RENAISSANCE, THE PREVIOUS LONGITUDINAL AND ADDED IN
1546

53. CASA DE LA PÍA ALMOINATHE GOTHIC FACADE OUT THE DOOR OF SEGMENTS CURRENTLY
HOUSES THE DIOCESAN MUSEUM, WHICH FUNDS BELONG TO THE ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC
HERITAGE OF THE CHURCH

54. ARDIACA L'HOUSE LIVED IN THIS
BUILDING THE HIERARCHY OF THE
ARCHDEACONS FROM THE
TWELFTH CENTURY WHEN THE
CATHEDRAL BEGAN TO TAKE
SHAPE NOW GOTHIC.
PALACE GOTHIC STRUCTURE. WITH
RENAISSANCE DECORATIVE
COVER, COLUMNED
COURTYARD, GALLERY, STAIRCASE
AND FOUNTAIN.

55. LA CASA DE L´ARDIACA

56. PALACE OF GOTHIC STRUCTURE AND CENTRAL FOUNTAIN.

57. LA CASA DE L´ARDIACA

58. THE CAPELLA DE SANTA
LLUCIA AND THE PALAU
EPISCOPAL FUND

59. EPISCOPAL PALACE OF BARCELONA CARRER DEL BISBE, 5 IT WAS BUILT IN THE LATE TWELFTH
CENTURY RELIED ON THE ROMAN WALL

60. IN THE COURTYARD A FEW WINDOWS OF THREE BODIES OF THE THIRTEENTH
CENTURY, BELONGING TO THE SOUTHWEST WING, AND A WINDOW OF THE FOURTEENTH
CENTURY FLAMBOYANT GOTHIC

61. THE PLAÇA IU AND THE MUSEUM FREDERIC MARÈS

62. THE COURTYARD OF THE FREDERIC MARÈS MUSEUM

64. THE GOTHIC ARCH THAT JOINS THE PALAU DE LA GENERALITAT CANONGES DELS HOUSE WAS
BUILT IN 1928 BY JOAN RUBIO AND BELLVER

65. EL ARCO GÓTICO CARRER DEL BISBE

67. THE JEWISH CALL (JEWISH QUARTER) NEAR THE PLAÇA DE SANT JAUME, AND INCLUDES THE
AREA BETWEEN THE STREETS OF BANYS NOUS, AND BISBE CALL IN THE GOTHIC QUARTER

68. THE SYNAGOGUE AT NUMBER SEVEN
IN THE STREET OF SANT DOMÈNEC'S
CALL, IS THE OLDEST SYNAGOGUES IN
BARCELONA. THE SYNAGOGUE WAS
ACTIVE UNTIL THE LOOTING OF THE
CALL (1391)

69. THE SYNAGOGUE

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