{"id":19811,"date":"2014-11-27T17:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=19811"},"modified":"2016-10-03T19:12:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T17:12:42","slug":"5-things-of-barcelona-you-probably-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/5-things-of-barcelona-you-probably-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things of Barcelona you probably don’t know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether\u00a0you have visited Barcelona or you live in it, there are probably many things that you don’t\u00a0know about the city. They are curiosities, historical data that are not always available to everyone, even not to the always attentive tourist. To realize certain details of this wonderful city you must have read a lot about it, or have someone to advise you on that. To save you some time and explanations, from ShBarcelona<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0we explain to you 5 of the curiosities you’ll find on the streets of Barcelona and we invite you to discover much more while strolling and exploring them.<\/p>\n

\"fuente<\/a>–Hercules fountain, the unknown work of Gaud\u00ed:<\/strong> the work of the architect is in the gardens of the Royal Palace of Pedralbes and was discovered recently, in 1984, after\u00a0a cleaning work carried out on the site. The fountain\u00a0is attributed to Antoni Gaud\u00ed and built in 1884 for the G\u00fcell family with the idea of recreating the legend of the Garden of the Hesperides.<\/p>\n

\"acueducto-barcelona_\"<\/a>–Old Roman aqueduct in the Plaza March 8<\/strong>: If you walk through this square you’ll find four arches of an ancient Roman aqueduct of the late first century BC. This construction supplied the city of Barcino (as it was known Barcelona at the time) of water from the Bes\u00f2s river. It was not until 1988 that these remains were discovered\u00a0after a next door house demolition , which had taken advantage of the arches to construct the building foundation.<\/p>\n

–“Carassa” on Mirallers Street (big face):<\/strong>\u00a0not that time ago\u00a0ordinary people could not read or write, so, stores or places in the city\u00a0had to be indicated on drawings or sculptures. In this case, on a Mirallers Street corner, you will find the face (“carassa” is the face superlative in Catalan) of a sculpted woman, indicating that near there was a brothel to the potential customers.<\/p>\n

\"puerta-placa-sant-felip-neri-1600x948-2\"<\/a>–The Fa\u00e7ade of horror and tragedy in the church of Sant Felip Neri:<\/strong> this square from which we have spoken on other occasions, is somewhat hidden between the streets of the Gothic Quarter. On the facade of the church of the same name, you will see even the flaws that caused the shrapnel from a bomb during the heavy bombardment of January the 30th, 1938 in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. The bombing killed 42 people, mostly San Felip Neri school children.<\/p>\n

-The Bar\u00e7a fans are called “cul\u00e9s”, why?: <\/strong>you probably don’t know that\u00a0the Bar\u00e7a fans are\u00a0colloquially called “cul\u00e9s” (plural). But few know that this name is because, between 1909 and 1922, the club played in a stadium of small size located in the Industry Street. Its size caused\u00a0that fans of the soccer team\u00a0had to sit on the wall with their back facing the street and when people passed by they called them\u00a0“culers”, something like “bottoms”\u00a0in English. Hence they ended up calling “cul\u00e9s” by the pronunciation of the word.<\/p>\n

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Whether\u00a0you have visited Barcelona or you live in it, there are probably many things that you don’t\u00a0know about the city. They are curiosities, historical data that are not always available to everyone, even not to the always attentive tourist. To realize certain details of this wonderful city you must have read a lot about it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1464,185,1466,1462,1463,1460,1461,1465,1093,455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80286,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions\/80286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}