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The Roman Necropolis of Barcelona

The bombings suffered in Barcelona during the Civil War left the Plaza de la Villa de Madrid of Baarcelona in very poor condition. In 1954, while the repairs were being done, they found the remains of about 85 tombs from the Roman period of the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD. …

The Barcelona Aqueduct

by Lourdes Reixach

In 1938 Barcelona was heavily bombed and many parts of the city were badly damaged. Once the Civil War ended, during the 1940s, the restructuring of the area around the cathedral began to make way for an avenue. The interventions of 1957 exposed the foundations of the aqueduct that was …