{"id":3927,"date":"2025-10-20T18:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=3927"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T19:14:38","slug":"barcelona-day-3-barcelona-history-museum-muhba-night-wandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technomads.maginei.com\/?p=3927","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Day 3 – Barcelona History Museum MUHBA, Night Wandering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lots of great art everywhere you look<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Barcelona History Museum MUHBA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Streets sometimes dead-end in fortress walls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The metal contraption was a clock used on a tower of some sort used to tell time for something like 100 years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I didn’t know they had glass in the 4th century.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This bust is about 2000 years old! Looks like he could’ve been an uncle of my family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Quite pirate-y if you ask me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Has a lot of gothic attributes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here’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 later<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nice details. Someone cared about this machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This is an ancient loom I think<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I think they made wine here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The middle is the extent of the original Roman city<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The old meets the new<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The archival portion of the museum. Great design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Big Book!!! Don’t drop it on your foot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These are the ruins of Barcino: a Roman city from 2000 years ago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The 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 building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inquisitions 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!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Barcelona has been a worldwide center for innovation, industry, art, etc for probably over 1000 years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here’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 with<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This shows roughly where we are. We’re right under the Barcelona Cathedral at point. The original Catholic church was here over 1500 years ago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spooky… Imagine seeing this when the mobs are on a witch hunt. The spires weren’t there back then though.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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