This document provides an overview of the history of streets and neighborhoods in Barcelona, Spain. It describes the narrow streets of Gothic-style religious and civil buildings. It discusses how the Black Pest in 1348 caused noble families to move into cities and build palaces. It also outlines the direct connection between small houses and streets, and summarizes the Gothic quarter's medieval past and importance of monarchy and nobility through city wall extensions. Key sites representing the monarchy, nobility, church and middle class trades are highlighted. The growth of the Ribera neighborhood for different guilds in the 13th century and difficult times of the Black Death and social tensions are briefly mentioned.

2. Index
The streets
 Barcelona and its inhabitants
 Housing
 Romanesque and Gothic Barcelona
 The Ribera neighborhood of the guilds
 Passeig del Born and Palaces at Montcada
street
 The crisis
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3. The streets
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Narrow streets
Elegance and sobriety due to the religious and civil buildings
in the new Gothic style

4. Barcelona and its inhabitants
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Backgrounds neither privileged nor marginalized.
Black Pest (1348) many noble families moved into the
cities and built their own palaces.

5. Housing
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Direct connection between the house and the street.
The houses tended to be small.

6. Romanesque and Gothic Barcelona
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Gothic quarter: the medieval past of the city.
Various extensions of its wall enclosures & importance of
monarchy and nobility.

7. A) Monarchy and nobility imprint
Palau de la Generalitat
Montcada street
Palau Reial in Plaça del Rei

8. B) Role played by the Church
Barcelona’s Cathedral

9. C) The middle class trade imprint
Drassanes
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The Llotja

10. Passeig del Born
A place for fairs, tournaments, processions and the carnival

11. Main palaces at Montcada street
Museu Picasso
Palau Nadal
Museu Textil i d’indumentaria

12. The Ribera, neighbourhood of the guilds
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Growth of the city
in13th century
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Each guild in a
different street

13. The crisis
Difficult times: the pest (Black Death) in 1348
Social tensions

14. The discovery of America