Barcelona Maritime Museum
Medieval royal shipyard housing a full-size gilded replica of a sixteenth-century flagship galley.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Barcelona Maritime Museum turns on October 7, 1571, when a 24-year-old commander named John of Austria led the largest fleet Europe had ever assembled into battle off the Greek coast aboard a golden flagship built in these very shipyards. It traces the ship's construction here, the Gothic hall built by the kings of Aragon to mass-produce galleys, and what the battle at Lepanto became for the Mediterranean's balance of power. You'll also hear how shipwrights recreated the vessel plank by plank four centuries later.
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