Barcelona Guided Walking Tour: Secrets of the Gothic Quarter and History Museum

Sightseeing  :  Spain  :  Catalonia And Barcelona  :  Barcelona  :  Cultural Tours

Discover the most suggestive spots in medieval Barcelona: the city of knights and alchemists, the Inquisition. Enjoy the Cathedral, Sant Just i Pastor basilica, Sant Felip Neri square and the visit of the History Museum of Barcelona.Romans, christian knights, jewish wisemen walked along the streets of this tour. We are at the spot where the city was founded; where count-kings ruled their kingdom and the Inquisition chased heretics. On this 3-hour guided tour round the heart of medieval Gothic Quarter of Barcelona we will learn about the terrible “trials of God”, craftmen’s daily life as well as the Jewish’s footprints on the stones of Call. Here are the keys to understand an age of contrasts: splendour and brutality, wisdom and superstition, spirituality and violence.

You will complete this tour with a visit to the History Museum of Barcelona, near Plaça del Rei, where you will be able to see the archaeological remains of the old roman city. The subsoil tour will allow you walking through de roman Barcelona, its houses, walls and all its remains. The remains included in the archaeological ensemble goes from the roman Barcino of the first century to the medieval Barcelona of the thirteenth century.