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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.
Romanesque and Gothic
Barcelona Gothicquater: the medieval past of thecity.
Variousextensions of itswallenclosures&importance of monarchy and
nobility
Passeig del Born
Passeig del Born: urbanfestivalswerecelebrated in , such as fairs,
tournaments, processions and thecarnival.
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.