We knew that in the Square the Gardunya, behind La Boqueria, was a parking lot to replace the current (rather old) and that the operation would lead to a true urban pitch that would change the face of the whole environment.
The parking would join a residential building (not!), Unnecessary (terrible) reform of the facade of the Hospital de la Santa Creu overlooking the plaza, and a new (horribly ugly) Massana School building. Precisely the latter
monster, another building of that ugliness with which the Barcelona city hall burst its historic districts, was the one responsible for discovering the remains of the convent of Jerusalem that lie dormant on the side of the square.
( clicking HERE see the picture of the walls and debris on the surface a few months ago)
But a surprise awaited me and have given me. A week ago, machines and workers who are raising the surface parking, would go to the corner where the remains of the convent, and clean taladrazo concrete injection, they were being taken forward without the slightest courtesy, no respect its history, and probably because the pig (yes yes, pork) the surveyor or architect, together with the pigs sitting on velvet chairs at the Casa de la Ciutat, did not feel it was necessary to keep it.
In 1453, a nun who was returning from Jerusalem, the Pope then got a bull or permit to erect a Franciscan monastery in Barcelona. Once here and the paper in hand, the church bosses were granted the use of the Casa de Porta, a medieval palace that had left the Dominicans of Montsió between the Hospital de la Santa Creu and Sant Josep Convent (now Boqueria).
Between 1468 and 1500, completed the church and the cloister of the convent of Jerusalem, which occupied the entire course of the current Gardunya Square.
in wartime was a refuge for nuns from other parts of Catalonia. Then they would be affected by looting, yellow fever and the confiscation of 1845, which caused her expulsion. Finally
barracks and in 1868 it was assaulted and crumbling. The cloister was saved and rebuilt stone by stone in the college of Sant Miquel, the Eixample, Muntaner street between Corsica and Rosell. And there is.
of a monastery with so much history and current occupying the entire square Gardunya, were a foundation on the side ... and have passed away.
planning model is the Barcelona City Hall. 'Dignified' demolishing old neighborhoods and inserting his last real break paranoyas modern architecture.
The monastery of Jerusalem and only exists in old maps.
This picture of me a few days ago attests precisely the side of the square were the remains has been the first land to be removed, and among the heap of stones lying over 5 centuries.
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