Old monastery of Sant Pau del Camp

This guide to the old monastery of Sant Pau del Camp in Barcelona starts with a workman's shovel striking a forgotten tombstone in 1596, unearthing the name of a ninth-century count nobody had linked to this stone church before. It traces the building back through a devastating raid by the warlord Almanzor in 985, and to Geribert Guitard and Rotlendis, the couple who paid to rebuild it and bring in a fresh community of monks more than a century later. Worn stone faces of Christ, Peter and Paul still watch from above the west door as you walk in.