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With the Muslim conquest of the Peninsula, medieval Barcelona was also occupied, henceforth known as Barshilūnan (between 718 and 801). But in the year 801, the king of the Franks, Ludovico Pío, integrated it into the Carolingian kingdom and appointed a local nobleman as count of Barcelona, subject to him. Throughout the 9th and 10th centuries, Muslim incursions were constant and in some cases they took and looted the population although, lacking the ambition to control the territory, they did not permanently occupy it again. For their part, the Carolingians either did not want to or were unable to help the city in these times. The last straw was the attack of Almanzor , in the year 985, which culminated in the systematic looting and destruction of the city (see "The day Barcelona is going to die. The campaign against the Catalan counties" in Desperta Ferro Antigua and medieval no. 52: Almanzor ), as well as the transfer of its inhabitants as prisoners to al-Andalus . From that moment on, the Count of Barcelona refused to render any vassalage to the Frankish kings and inaugurated a period of relative independence for the Catalan counties.
A powerful walled enclosure, inherited from Roman times (erected between the second half of the 3rd century AD , after the Frankish invasions, and the beginning of the 4th century AD), defended medieval Barcelona, the most important city in the Catalan counties. The wall canvas, with an approximately rectangular perimeter, was marked with no less than 76 stone towers, and was equipped B2B Email List with four entrances ( praetoria , decumana , principalis sinistra and principalis dextra gates ) equally fortified, one on each side. Medieval Barcelona 10th century Almanzor Perimeter of the walls of medieval Barcelona from the 10th century , in the time of Almanzor, on a current map of the city. Apparently modest dimensions that should not deceive us about the importance of the city in its time. Click to enlarge the image. The interior plan of medieval Barcelona reproduced, to a large extent, that already laid out by the Roman city (ancient Barcino). As in every Roman city, two large arteries stood out, the cardo and the decumanus, although in this case they were not oriented in a north-south and east-west direction as was customary, but displaced with respect to the cardinal axes.
These two roads still exist today in the couple of Carrer del Bisbe and Carrer de la Ciutat streets, on the one hand (in a northwest-southeast direction, which form the old decumanus), and the couple formed by Carrer de Ferran and of Jaume I, on the other (in a southwest-northeast direction, following the old thistle). These four streets converge on the modern Plaça de Sant Jaume , then occupied by the primitive church of Sant Jaume, which formed the center of the city in both Roman and medieval times. To the north of its current location, the forum and temple of Augustus were built in Roman times. Already in late Roman times, a Christian temple (Sant Just) was erected, to the east of the current Plaça de Sant Jaume. But the main temple of the city was, without a doubt, the early Christian basilica (5th-7th centuries) dedicated to the Holy Cross ( Sanctae Crucis ), and which occupied the space of the Plaza de Sant Iu (in front of the Marés Museum) and the Comtes street; The baptistery is located under the Palau Reial Major and is accessed from the City History Museum. It had three parallel naves and, next to it, the episcopal see was built. Both were completely destroyed by the forces of Almanzor, and served as a distant precedent for the Gothic cathedral that we can see today in the same area, although not exactly on the ruins of the previous ones (la Seu).
A powerful walled enclosure, inherited from Roman times (erected between the second half of the 3rd century AD , after the Frankish invasions, and the beginning of the 4th century AD), defended medieval Barcelona, the most important city in the Catalan counties. The wall canvas, with an approximately rectangular perimeter, was marked with no less than 76 stone towers, and was equipped B2B Email List with four entrances ( praetoria , decumana , principalis sinistra and principalis dextra gates ) equally fortified, one on each side. Medieval Barcelona 10th century Almanzor Perimeter of the walls of medieval Barcelona from the 10th century , in the time of Almanzor, on a current map of the city. Apparently modest dimensions that should not deceive us about the importance of the city in its time. Click to enlarge the image. The interior plan of medieval Barcelona reproduced, to a large extent, that already laid out by the Roman city (ancient Barcino). As in every Roman city, two large arteries stood out, the cardo and the decumanus, although in this case they were not oriented in a north-south and east-west direction as was customary, but displaced with respect to the cardinal axes.
These two roads still exist today in the couple of Carrer del Bisbe and Carrer de la Ciutat streets, on the one hand (in a northwest-southeast direction, which form the old decumanus), and the couple formed by Carrer de Ferran and of Jaume I, on the other (in a southwest-northeast direction, following the old thistle). These four streets converge on the modern Plaça de Sant Jaume , then occupied by the primitive church of Sant Jaume, which formed the center of the city in both Roman and medieval times. To the north of its current location, the forum and temple of Augustus were built in Roman times. Already in late Roman times, a Christian temple (Sant Just) was erected, to the east of the current Plaça de Sant Jaume. But the main temple of the city was, without a doubt, the early Christian basilica (5th-7th centuries) dedicated to the Holy Cross ( Sanctae Crucis ), and which occupied the space of the Plaza de Sant Iu (in front of the Marés Museum) and the Comtes street; The baptistery is located under the Palau Reial Major and is accessed from the City History Museum. It had three parallel naves and, next to it, the episcopal see was built. Both were completely destroyed by the forces of Almanzor, and served as a distant precedent for the Gothic cathedral that we can see today in the same area, although not exactly on the ruins of the previous ones (la Seu).