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Església de Sant Pau del Camp
Barcelona's oldest church, St Paul in the Fields was founded by monks in the 9th century. Although the squat, rural-looking building shows its age, it has some wonderful Visigothic sculptural decoration on its doorway and a fine Romanesque cloister.
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Església De Santa Anna
Starting life as a Romanesque chapel in the 12th century, this tranquil house of worship is set on a square of its own. The deliciously silent and cool Gothic cloister encloses a leafy garden and fountain.
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Església de Sants Just i Pastor
This single-nave church was built in 1342 in Catalan Gothic style, with chapels on either side of the buttressing. It boasts some fine stained-glass windows. On Plaça de Sant Just, in front of the church, bubbles a water fountain dating from 1367. Gaudí was arrested here one day for not speaking Spanish to a copper.
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La Catedral
Approached from the broad Avinguda de la Catedral, Barcelona's central place of worship presents a magnificent image. The richly decorated main (northwest) facade, laced with gargoyles and the stone intricacies you would expect of northern European Gothic, sets it quite apart from other churches in Barcelona.
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La Moreneta
Perched at Montserrat is a monastery and 12th-century chapel built to house La Moreneta, a statue found nearby and venerated by hundreds of thousands of people each year.
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Sinagoga Major
What little is left of the Jewish ghetto's main medieval synagogue was accidentally discovered in the early 2000s. In the two rooms, now again a working temple, can be seen remnants of Roman-era walls and some tanners' wells.
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Temple Romà d'Augusti
It's unremarkable from the outside, but this courtyard houses four Corinthian columns of Barcelona's main Roman temple, built in the 1st century in the name of Caesar Augustus.
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