El Born – Museu d’Història de Barcelona is a cultural and archaeological space dedicated to preserving and interpreting the memory of Barcelona in 1714. Set within the former market of El Born and beneath its striking 19th-century iron structure, it contains an exceptional archaeological site with the streets and houses of the neighbourhood of La Ribera, demolished after the Bourbon siege. The visit allows you to see the 18th-century urban layout up close, while exhibitions and activities broaden the perspective on local and national history, offering a more critical reading of it.
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The neighbourhood of La Ribera was torn down on the orders of Philip V to make way for the military citadel, a fortress built to control the city after the defeat of 1714.
It is now home to the former market of El Born, opened in 1876 and one of the city’s earliest major examples of iron architecture, later becoming a symbol of Barcelona’s industrial modernisation.
