Carrer de Montcada

Today running between the Romanesque Capella d'en Marcús (one of the city's oldest churches) and Passeig del Born, this medieval high street was driven towards the sea from the road that in the 12th century led northeast from the city walls. It became Barcelona's most coveted address for the merchant classes, in what was the commercial heartland of medieval Barcelona. The great mansions that remain today mostly date from the 14th and 15th centuries.