The Historian · Diego · Barcelona
El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria
This is the most honest place in Barcelona. The city decided not to fill in the excavation — they built around it.
A 19th-century iron market hall built over the 1714 siege excavation. Beneath the floor: an entire neighborhood destroyed by Felipe V. You can walk around it and look down into 1714.
— Diego, The Historian
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