Museu Diocesà - Gaudí Exhibition Centre - Plaça Nova, Barcelona

A look around Plaça Nova in Barcelona which runs where Avinguda de la Catedral runs along near Barcelona Cathedral and Pla de la Seu. There was a market on the Saturday we headed through the square.

Plaça Nova de Barcelona opens before the old Praetoria Door , one of the gates of the Roman city, in the heart of the Gothic Quarter , known as the Portal del Bisbe . In this door, decumanus began, one of the main streets, and the two water-bearing aqueducts that used the water at Bàrcino came together . Nowadays you can see a reproduction of a fragment of the Roman aqueduct, built in 1958.

According to the nomenclator of Barcelona, it was formed in 1355 when the city council decided to channel the water coming from the Collserola sierra to Plaça de Sant Jaume . On October 30, the houses that were in front of the Bishop's Portal began to be demolished. In April 1358 the square was finished and since then it has its current name, which has only been changed by Vázquez de Mella during a short period of time following the death of this politician in 1928.

It was a closed square, typically medieval, until the 1940s , when taking advantage of the remodeling due to the destruction caused by the bombing of the civil war, the avenue of the Cathedral was opened, making one of the sections (along with the consequently Avenida de Francesc Cambó ) of the Gran Via that drew up the Interior Refurbishment Plan of Àngel Baixeras of 1899 and that was already planned in the Cerdà Plan of 1860. The square and the avenue were subject to an intensive archaeological excavation before of the construction of an underground parking lot, and in 1991 it was again urbanized. In 1994 the letters Barcino , a visual sculptural poem by Joan Brossa , were installed, to the theoretical limit that separates the square from the avenue.

At the moment, the square, irregularly shaped, slightly triangular, is open on the east side, where it joins the avenue of the Cathedral without a solution of continuity, and it only gives five numbers, which occupy the north and west sides:

* at number 1-2, the baroque façade of the Palau del Bisbe (1782-1786), framed by Carrer de la Palla and the right tower of the Roman door, which opens onto Carrer del Bisbe; The tower on the left, where there is a niche with the image of Sant Roc in the 16th century and the start of the reconstructed Roman aqueduct, belongs to the Casa de l'Ardiaca , nominally belonging already to Avinguda de la Cathedral
* at number 3, modern building between the streets of La Palla and the Boters
* at number 4, the corner of the annex building (1992) of the Colegio de Arquitectos del carrer dels Arcos núm. 1-3, which is on the corner with Carrer dels Boters
* at number 5, the College of Architects (1958-1962), between the Carrer dels Arcs and the Capellans, with a frieze with drawings by Pablo Picasso

Museu Diocesà

Gaudí Exhibition Centre

Museo Diocesano de Barcelona

The Diocesan Museum of Barcelona - The Gaudí Exhibition Centre (in Catalan , Museu Diocesà de Barcelona ) is a museum of religious art , managed by the Diocesan Delegation of the Cultural Heritage of the Archbishopric of Barcelona . It is located in the Plaza de la Catedral in Barcelona , in the Casa de la Pia Almoina . It was inaugurated as the Diocesan Archaeological Museum of Barcelona in 1916 and was installed in the space of the ground floor of the Conciliar Seminary, being its first director Manuel Trens . It was moved and opened to the public in the new space in the year 1991.

The museum preserves a collection of nearly 4000 works of art from churches of the archdiocese of Barcelona from Greco-Roman pieces to the present day. Its funds also include pieces linked to the sacred work of the architect Antoni Gaudí .

Entrance to the shop of the museum.

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Taken in: Spain / Catalonia / Barcelona (show map)

Taken on: May 18, 2019

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