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Barcelona in the middle age

Barcelona was not an important town during the period of the Greeks or the Romans, but this changed during the middle age. The Kingdom Aragon and Catalonia become one of the Mediterranean Sea’s strongest states with the colonies in Hellas, Sicilian, Naples, Sardinia and North Africa. This was in the end of the 15th century when Madrid had consolidated their power with wealth from South America, there the Catalans weren’t allowed to go.

The old town of Barcelona is very exciting. It is one of Europe’s most beautiful towns and here you can renew the middle age. The town had three different surrounding walls. Two of them was build by the Romans and the last on during the middle age, and later on demolished around 1850. Here you can find old churches, one big gothic cathedral, the remanding from a Jewish synagogue, the execute area from the Spanish burgher wars, excavations from the Romans and from the French peoples siege and occupation 1700, and a lot more things. It is not a exaggerating to say that you can spend one month in investigating “Barri Gotic”.