Plaça del Sol

This guide to Plaça del Sol in Barcelona returns to April 1870, when textile workers from Gràcia's mills stormed the town hall and rang the alarm to resist conscription for a colonial war in Cuba. It follows the fighting that gathered around a cedar Tree of Liberty planted on this very spot, and the artillery that answered from Madrid over six days of shelling. Stand where the tree once stood, now the middle of a square lined with bars and evening terraces.