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More than 4,000 works exhibited in five Gothic architecture palaces show the painter’s formative period and his close relationship with Barcelona.

Eight centuries of history are contained in the stones of a great Gothic cathedral with an interior full of secrets waiting to be discovered. It is home to relics of Saint Eulalia, Barcelona’s patron saint, and one of Catalan Gothic’s most beautiful cloisters.

In Barcelona’s shopping areas you can find traditional establishments alongside designer and luxury boutiques, craft shops and gourmet product stores. Passeig de Gràcia, Rambla de Catalunya and Avinguda Diagonal, the Old Town and Gràcia offer some of the best shopping areas.

Plaça del Rei, the centre of power in medieval Barcelona, is home to some of the city’s most important civil Gothic buildings.

In addition to its main site in the Gothic Quarter, Barcelona City History Museum (MUHBA) has heritage centres distributed throughout the city.

Located at the crossroads of the Cardo Maximus and Decumanus Maximus, the main streets of Roman Barcelona, Plaça de Sant Jaume is home to the Government of Catalonia and Barcelona City Council.

A courtyard of a medieval building hides the remains of Barcino, the Roman settlement that gave rise to the current city of Barcelona.

Just off La Rambla is one of the city’s few porticoed squares, which still conserves the elegance and liveliness of the 19th century.

An 18th-century palace with a Modernista portal is home to figurative and realist works from the 21st century.

Two medieval palaces on Carrer de Montcada are home to a museum that disseminates knowledge of other cultures.

Its Gothic, Catalan Renaissance and even baroque palaces make this street the city’s most important civil architecture site.

The Roman settlement that is the origin of the modern city, Barcino, is Barcelona’s most historic district.

The Jewish Quarter of medieval Barcelona is home to one of Europe’s oldest synagogues, which has been restored and opened to the public. From the 9th century to the 14th century Barcelona had a large Jewish community that is thought to have numbered around 4,000 people.

While from the outside it appears to be a simple Gothic church, inside it is full of surprises and offers unbeatable views of the city centre.

Built over part of Barcelona’s old Roman wall, this building is one of the city’s best-preserved Gothic palaces. Palau Requesens, in the Gothic Quarter, was the largest private palace in medieval Barcelona and is now home to the Barcelona Academy of Literature.

A Gothic basilica and the two picturesque squares that surround it form one of the most enchanting corners of the Gothic Quarter. The old cemeteries that surrounded the 14th-century church are now small squares where painters and artisans exhibit their works.

Barcelona has preserved towers, gates and fragments of the city walls that the Romans erected in the 3rd century to ward off invaders.

In the Gothic Quarter you can find an imposing Neoclassical palace with wrought iron balconies and wide exposed brick arches on the ground floor premises.

A Neoclassical palace with a distinguished courtyard and a raised garden. If you follow the Carrer de la Portaferrissa shopping street to its end, you will reach Carrer dels Boters, which is home to a number of interesting buildings, including Palau Castanyer.

A large residential building with a stone facade bore witness to the writing of one of the most popular diaries written in Catalan. Palau Maldà, the home of barons in the 17th century, is now home to Barcelona’s oldest shopping centre.

Visitors are moved by this square hidden among the streets of the Gothic Quarter due to its serene beauty and its tragic history. Plaça de Sant Felip Neri is a jewel that is well worth the effort of finding.

The only straight street that connects La Rambla to Plaça de Sant Jaume is one of the Gothic Quarter’s main shopping streets. Designed in 1824 to link the main arteries of medieval Barcelona, Carrer de Ferran transformed the urban layout of the city.

Hidden in the Sant Pere district, this passage goes unnoticed by many visitors, making it one of Barcelona’s best-kept secrets. Passatge de Sert was the path that ran through one of Barcelona’s largest textile factories, which was owned by the Sert family.

A medieval royal palace is home to the works and collection of a sculptor who was passionate about art from the Romanesque period to the 19th century.

A house with more than 300 years of history bears witness to the importance of Barcelona’s professional guilds in the 18th century.

A Gothic building with a Catalan Renaissance structure exhibits more than 3,000 works of religious art and tells the story of Gaudí.

Plaça del Pi is home to one of Barcelona’s oldest establishments, a knife shop that has preserved its Viennese-style windows.

Crossing the threshold takes you 200 years back in time to when the city’s oldest candle maker was established in the centre of Barcelona. Cereria Subirà, an emblematic Barcelona business, has preserved its original lavish decoration.

A restaurant with a Modernista atmosphere that has been serving meals for more than 200 years. Can Culleretes, which specialises in Catalan cuisine and products, is Barcelona’s oldest restaurant.