In the 18th century, the Santa Caterina and Sant Pere neighbourhoods became two important industrial centres, particularly for textile manufacturing. The street names are the best way to follow in these footsteps. Rope makers, carders, blanket weavers, cotton makers, Plaça de la Llana (wool square), narrow winding streets, built along the ancient Roman roads where hundreds of factory houses clustered together to house the workers. Population pressure increased, and in 1835, in order to let a little air in, Carrer Princesa was opened, the first paved street in the city. But it was not until the 20th century that the whole area was reorganised with the building of Via Laietana, a wide avenue that divides the city’s historical centre into two, with Santa Caterina, Sant Pere and La Ribera on one side and El Gòtic on the other. Walking through Sant Pere i Santa Caterina, you find surprises around every corner. Roman remains, a reminder of the Rec Comtal irrigation canal, vestiges of the old textile guilds. These medieval neighbourhoods are open history books in the middle of the city. Crossing narrow streets and squares you come to Plaça de Sant Pere, where you can see the remains of the old Romanesque Benedictine convent, Sant Pere de les Puelles, which was the origin of the neighbourhood. This convent was one of the richest in Barcelona, as the Benedictines took in many of the daughters of the nobility who wanted to take their vows. The other part of the neighbourhood, Santa Caterina, also had religious beginnings, as it grew up around the Gothic convent of the Dominican Order. And from a nunnery, to a market. In 1848, a fire affected the convent, which was demolished. Its site became the location of the first covered market in an enclosure within the city. The Santa Caterina market, a Neoclassical construction, completely renovated in 2005 by the architect Enric Miralles, who designed the ceramic mosaic roof that has turned it into one of the neighbourhood’s iconic buildings. [](https://www. barcelona/modules/ajbcn/meet_pics/assets/markers/3. svg) Urban spaces

For people interested in off-the-beaten path culture, there’s the über-authentic and space Antic Teatre, run by an arts collective, various skate shops and tattoo parlors, as well as a number of the city’s historic small music venues. Jamboree, its sister club Los Tarantos and Club Sauvage (formerly Sidecar)—offering jazz and soul, flamenco for tourists and rock, respectively—are all located in palm tree-lined Plaza Reial. A few streets over are Marula Café, which programs all kinds of musical genres, as well as Harlem Jazz Club. There are all kinds of weird and wonderful food spots, from the trendy to the traditional, such as El Flako Corn Flakes & Co. , where you can order (you guessed it) corn flakes to go, or the Vegan Junk Food Bar. La Taguara Areperia has the best Venezuelan take-out, and Milk Bar & Bistro was one of the first restaurants in town to offer American-style brunch (before that became a thing), with pancakes, eggs Benedict, gourmet burgers and Bloody Marys on offer. Biblioteca Francesca Bonnemaison photo by Vicente Zambrano González courtesy of Ajuntament de Barcelona (CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Carving out a path between narrow streets and charming little squares, the medieval neighbourhoods of Sant Pere and Santa Caterina concentrate the essence of historical Barcelona. [](https://estatics-nasia. cat/nasia-pro/media/20170715111320MescladC3ADs-1_-web. jpg) C Carders 35 [](https://estatics-nasia. cat/nasia-pro/media/20170714130832Casal-de-Barri-Pou-de-la-Figuera-1-web. jpg) Carrer de Sant Pere Més Baix 70

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