Plaça de la Virreina
Leafy square built over a viceroy's mansion, with a modest church hiding a Gaudí-touched chapel.
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This guide to Plaça de la Virreina in Barcelona opens with an unlikely wedding: a seventy-two-year-old former viceroy of Peru, Manuel d'Amat, marrying a twenty-four-year-old, Maria Francesca de Fivaller, fresh from a convent. It follows the second palace he built for her on then-open farmland, and what happened to the property and her title after his death. The brick church at the square's edge, finished in 1884, later sheltered residents from wartime bombing raids.
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