This day was a great day. We learned how instrumental Barcelona has been to European and world history. The city dates back about 2000 years to Roman times. At that time there were native people here know as the Iberian people, they lived with the Romans quite well from the sounds of it.
On an side note, they actually resembled Native Americans in North America (if the reconstruction of the facial features from skulls can be trusted). Given the anti brown/black people sentiment back home (USA) right now it’s truly odd to be faced with an entire country of majority brown people who not only employed the guy who discovered North America, but also has proven to be a center for the progress of humanity (art, science, math, engineering, navigation, etc) for thousands of years. Strange world indeed…
Lots of great art everywhere you look
Barcelona History Museum MUHBA
Streets sometimes dead-end in fortress wallsThe metal contraption was a clock used on a tower of some sort used to tell time for something like 100 yearsI didn’t know they had glass in the 4th century.This bust is about 2000 years old! Looks like he could’ve been an uncle of my family.The museum is a sort of Frankenstein. The building that is the museum was moved from another spot to be over the original ruins of the city. This was someone’s house!Quite pirate-y if you ask meHas a lot of gothic attributesHere’s a view of the city around the middle ages. There’s the original Roman City surrounded by two sets of walls which were built much laterNice details. Someone cared about this machineThis is an ancient loom I thinkI think they made wine hereThe middle is the extent of the original Roman cityThe old meets the newThe archival portion of the museum. Great design.Big Book!!! Don’t drop it on your foot.These are the ruins of Barcino: a Roman city from 2000 years agoThe museum is placed over an ancient area of the city. The origin of the city back when the Romans founded it. This is underneath the buildingInquisitions were held here from my understanding. In fact A LOT of them were held here (I think). In fact the Inquisition may have started to some extent from here!Barcelona has been a worldwide center for innovation, industry, art, etc for probably over 1000 yearsHere’s the port of Barcelona. This port is quite interesting in that it filled with sand often, thereby giving Barcelona plenty of sand to build withThis shows roughly where we are. We’re right under the Barcelona Cathedral at point. The original Catholic church was here over 1500 years agoSpooky… Imagine seeing this when the mobs are on a witch hunt. The spires weren’t there back then though.
Lots of window display artRandom graffiti on a store from. Many more like it to come
K and I danced on the steps where the Inquisition partially started (my understanding anyways). How times change 🙂 I bet most of the people there had no idea about that.
This guy was really good. I would have sat around for awhile if I wasn’t exhaustedI keep waiting for Blackbeard to wonder out from a dark corner
