Barcelona with Robert Hughes - ACE241.3

History of Catalan expansion – engraving of Barcelona harbour, map of Europe. Seventeenth century sailing ship. Interior of the Barcelona Stock Exchange, La Llotja, founded 1383, with Hughes relating its history. Businessmen talking. Exterior of building across the street decorated with cherubs trading. Aerial view of the Cathedral. Street shrine to St Eulalia. Hughes in side street continuing to relate story of St Eulalia. Exterior Cathedral, cloisters with geese. Views of streets and buildings in the Gothic quarter, including exterior of those housing the Picasso Museum. Church of Santa Maria del Mar, exterior and interior views, details of ecoration.
Remains of Roman walls, map of medieval city showing it outgrowing Roman outline, narrow street. Engravings of 1714 siege of Barcelona by Duke of Berwick under Bourbon King Philip (Felipe) V. Santa Maria del Mar and epitaph to the Catalan defenders. Paintings and map showing city rebuilt and expanded by the Bourbons. Hughes on Las Ramblas; 18th century map, 19th and early 20th century photographs, etc. Las Ramblas at night – news-stands, drug takers, police, etc.
Views down over city. Aerial views showing older city and the results of El Eixample, the "enlargement" of 1859, designed by Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer. Portrait of Cerdà.