La Rambla

This guide to La Rambla in Barcelona follows George Orwell in May 1937, when the boulevard he had come to love turned into a battlefield between government forces and the militia he had joined. You'll hear how he spent three nights keeping watch from a rooftop above this street, and about the exchange he had with the men barricaded on a cafe roof across the way. It draws on his own account of those days, written down soon after. Look up at the rooftops on either side as you walk the boulevard now.