Sinagoga Major de Barcelona

This guide to the Sinagoga Major de Barcelona traces how a historian named Jaume Riera i Sans, working from centuries-old tax records, traced a medieval synagogue's location to a cluttered basement shop on Carrer de Marlet in 1987. It reaches back to the 1391 riots that destroyed Barcelona's Jewish quarter and buried the building's memory for nearly six hundred years, and forward to the scholar who preached here and the king who once visited. Stand at the low stone arches near the entrance, where the floor has been scraped back to its medieval level.