La història de Barcelona en 10 passejades

The best way to get to know Barcelona is to walk it. Its entire history is written in its streets and squares and you just have to open your eyes to discover it. Today's Barcelona is the living testimony of yesterday's Barcelona, and an exciting historical story has been imprinted on its stones. The ten thematic routes proposed by Jaume Grau to tour the city can be done on foot, each following their own path, or even designing their own route. From the route of water, riots, wars or epidemics to the route of work, works and speculation or the magical Barcelona, the author invites us to look at it. through history. A city that hides many more nooks and crannies than we could have imagined, such as knowing for example what a shoe does on the facade of the cathedral. But it also reveals a hard and difficult past, such as the one we can see on the Rovira hill, where hundreds of Barcelonans set up their barracks on the old sites of anti-aircraft guns, which defended the city from aviation attacks. Italian. Open the pages of this book, walk, look and have fun: the city you will walk in is unique, "the great enchantment", as Joan Maragall defined it.