Via Sepulcral Romana - Barcelona, Spain
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bluesnote
N 41° 23.059 E 002° 10.324
31T E 430774 N 4581752
This remnant of the Roman Civilization is located in the middle of Barcelona, about 30 feet below street level.
Waymark Code: WMKZB4
Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 06/20/2014
Views: 24
The plaque says (Only the English portion), "The Vila de Madrid Square is the result of an urbanist project from the end of the 1950s. A large part of the site was occupied by the Convent of Saint Teresa of the Descaled Carmelites. The community, formed by seven nuns, was established in the district in 1588. In 1601 the convent's church was constructed, whose priest from 1885 to 1892 was Mosses Jacin Verdaguer.
Durin the Civil War (1936-39), some of the convent's underground passages were used to build an air raid shelter.
In 1944 it was decided that the surface occupied by the convent and other building affected by the bombings would be reorganized. The operation tied up well with the idea of reviewing Ciutat Vella with small open Spaces, defended before the Civil War by the Group of Catalan Architects and Technicians for the Progress of Contemporary Architecture (GATCPAC).
In 1954, during construction of the new housing building on the side of Francesc Pukols Street, the Roman sepulchral way was discovered. The find was of great archaeological interest. Adolf Florensa, municipal architect and co-author of that classically inspired building, conceived a layout for the square that enabled the sepulchral way to be integrated into the ensemble of open-air historical monuments. The new public space was open in 1958."
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Via Sepulcral Romana - Barcelona, Spain
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