Thestreets Narrow streets

Elegance and sobriety due to the religious and civil

buildings in the new Gothic style

Barcelona and it’sinhabitants

backgrounds neither previleged nor maginalized.

due to the black pest of 1348, many noble families moved into the

cities, where they built their own palaces.

Housing

Directconnectionbetweenthehouse and thestreet.

Thehouses tended tobesmall.

Romanesque and Gothic

Barcelona Gothicquater: the medieval past of thecity.

Variousextensions of itswallenclosures&importance of monarchy and

nobility

A) Monarchie and nobilityprint

ThePalau de la Genralitat

Montcadastreet

B) Role playedbytheChurch

C) Themiddleclasstradeprint

Drassanes

TheLlotja

D) Welfareinstitutionsprint

(Hospital of theHoly Cross)

Passeig del Born

Passeig del Born: urbanfestivalswerecelebrated in , such as fairs,

tournaments, processions and thecarnival.

MainBuildings at

Montcadastreet

The Ribera, neighbourhood of

theguilds

Duringthe 13th

century, thecitygre

wimmensely.

Itwas a

characteristic of the

medieval times

thateachguildwas

placed in a

differentstreet.

The crisis But Barcelona also experienced some difficult times: The pest, or

Black Death, arrived at the port of Barcelona in 1348 and a number

of subsequent epidemics also took a grand number of its habitants.

Social tensions appeared all over: in the countryside there were

revolts of the peasants against their feudal lords.

The discovery of America displaced the center of commerce

towards the Atlantic. Barcelona lost a good part of its maritime

activities.