Santa Caterina - Museu d'Història de Barcelona is an archaeological site that reveals 2,000 years of history beneath the eponymous market. Among vaults and excavated remains, traces emerge that span from the Bronze Age to Roman Barcelona and the late antique necropolis. The journey culminates in the Dominican convent founded in the 13th century, the order’s first establishment in the city. Now incorporated into the Santa Caterina market, it seamlessly connects past and present. This is an essential visit to grasp how Barcelona is literally built upon its own memory.
This is good to know
- Unlike other centres of the Museu d'Història de Barcelona, access to this archaeological site is free of charge.
- Notice the Visigothic columns reused in the old cloister: they survived demolition and today uphold a memory that many overlook.