The document summarizes aspects of medieval Barcelona such as its narrow streets lined with religious and civic buildings, the backgrounds of its inhabitants, and housing directly connected to the streets. It describes the Gothic quarter representing the medieval past and importance of monarchy and nobility. Specific buildings are mentioned representing the roles of the monarchy, nobility, church, and middle class traders. The Passeig del Born hosted festivals and each guild was placed in a different street in the Ribera neighborhood. However, Barcelona also experienced crises such as the Black Death plague, subsequent epidemics, peasant revolts, and lost maritime commerce due to the discovery of America.

2. Thestreets
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Narrow streets
Elegance and sobriety due to the religious and civil
buildings in the new Gothic style

3. Barcelona and it’sinhabitants
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backgrounds neither previleged nor maginalized.
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due to the black pest of 1348, many noble families moved into the
cities, where they built their own palaces.

4. Housing
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Directconnectionbetweenthehouse and thestreet.
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Thehouses tended tobesmall.

5. Romanesque and Gothic
Barcelona
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Gothicquater: the medieval past of thecity.
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Variousextensions of itswallenclosures&importance of monarchy and
nobility

6. A) Monarchie and nobilityprint
ThePalau de la Genralitat
Montcadastreet

7. B) Role playedbytheChurch

8. C) Themiddleclasstradeprint
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Drassanes
TheLlotja

9. D) Welfareinstitutionsprint
(Hospital of theHoly Cross)

10. Passeig del Born
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Passeig del Born: urbanfestivalswerecelebrated in , such as fairs,
tournaments, processions and thecarnival.

11. MainBuildings at
Montcadastreet

12. The Ribera, neighbourhood of
theguilds
Duringthe 13th
century, thecitygre
wimmensely.
 Itwas a
characteristic of the
medieval times
thateachguildwas
placed in a
differentstreet.
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13. The crisis
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But Barcelona also experienced some difficult times: The pest, or
Black Death, arrived at the port of Barcelona in 1348 and a number
of subsequent epidemics also took a grand number of its habitants.
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Social tensions appeared all over: in the countryside there were
revolts of the peasants against their feudal lords.

14. 
The discovery of America displaced the center of commerce
towards the Atlantic. Barcelona lost a good part of its maritime
activities.