Barcelona History
Barcelona’s street names are a living archive of Catalonia’s past. From revolutionaries and monarchs to writers, artists, and saints, this guide reveals the people behind the city’s most iconic addresses.
Explore the Barcelona of Picasso’s youth. Discover the places he lived, the studios where he painted early masterpieces and the cafes and art galleries that formed his world.
Barcelona is often described as a Mediterranean city shaped by design, trade, and culture. In reality, it is a layered city, rebuilt again and again after conquest, collapse, reform, and reinvention.
Step into the world of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind by exploring the real Barcelona locations that inspired the novel.
Barcelona traces its origins over 2,000 years ago to the Roman colony called Barcino. It was founded by Emperor Augustus during the period of 15-10 BC, and the full Latin name of the colony was Iulia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino.