Museu d’Historia de Barcelona: Placa del Rei The Barcelona History Museum has several locations. The Placa del Rei location is the main museum. The buildings of the museum are medieval.
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The tour of the museum begins by taking an elevator down to the excavated roman ruins. There is an illuminated sign in the elevator that says 2016. As you descend 65 feet the sign goes back in time until it stops at -2. We exited into Roman Barcino walking on raised platforms over the ruins. The ruins were much more extensive than we had expected and included fish processing areas, the fullonica (Laundry) and tinctoria (dyeing) and a wine making facility. There were also the remains of an early Christian Chruch.
When we returned to ground level there were the exhibits centered on Barcelona’s days as a sea-training superpower.
The final two spaces were the Salon de Tinell of the Royal Palace of the medieval count of Barcelona who ruled over Aragon from this grand vaulted room. The final space is the 14th century chapel of Saint Agatha.
According to legend the steps that you use to leave the building to return to the Placa del Rei are where Ferdinand and Isabella stood to greet Columbus on his return to Barcelona.
We found a shaded courtyard to eat the sandwiches we bought at the bakery across the street from our apartment this morning while listening to the street musician outside play his guitar.
For dinner tonight we decided on a Trip Advisor recommended classic old tapas bar. It is basically a street corner bar with just enough room for 5 tables and a stand up bar. In this space there were about 30 customers a bar tender and a waiter. And others out in the street drinking beer at stand up tables. They offer wine from wooden kegs and beer by the bottle. There are four items on the menu. Fried sardines, tomato salad with onions and olives, bread with tomato and anchovie, and bread with sausage. It was all good and fresh basic food.
We took a long rambling walk after dinner. Somehow these walks always seem to end at the Gelato store.
When we returned to ground level there were the exhibits centered on Barcelona’s days as a sea-training superpower.
The final two spaces were the Salon de Tinell of the Royal Palace of the medieval count of Barcelona who ruled over Aragon from this grand vaulted room. The final space is the 14th century chapel of Saint Agatha.
According to legend the steps that you use to leave the building to return to the Placa del Rei are where Ferdinand and Isabella stood to greet Columbus on his return to Barcelona.
We found a shaded courtyard to eat the sandwiches we bought at the bakery across the street from our apartment this morning while listening to the street musician outside play his guitar.
For dinner tonight we decided on a Trip Advisor recommended classic old tapas bar. It is basically a street corner bar with just enough room for 5 tables and a stand up bar. In this space there were about 30 customers a bar tender and a waiter. And others out in the street drinking beer at stand up tables. They offer wine from wooden kegs and beer by the bottle. There are four items on the menu. Fried sardines, tomato salad with onions and olives, bread with tomato and anchovie, and bread with sausage. It was all good and fresh basic food.
We took a long rambling walk after dinner. Somehow these walks always seem to end at the Gelato store.