El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria
Iron market hall built over ruins of a neighborhood razed as war punishment in 1714.
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This guide to El Born Centre de Cultura i Memoria in Barcelona opens on September 11, 1714, the day the city fell to Philip V after the War of the Spanish Succession, and follows what happened next to La Ribera, then the city's busiest merchant quarter. You'll hear how the king's punishment erased forty-two streets and displaced more than a thousand families, and how a 1990s plan to build a library on the site turned into something else entirely once workers started digging. Look down through the iron arches raised in the 1870s to see what they found.
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