14th C. – Plaça del Rei, Barcelona
From the early middle ages, this square was home to the counts of Barcelona and rulers of the Court of Aragon.
From the early middle ages, this square was home to the counts of Barcelona and rulers of the Court of Aragon.
Place Royal is a square in the Lower Town of Quebec. Its centrepieces is the little church Notre-Dame-des-Victoires but the entire composition is a beautiful example of the architecture of New France.
Previously the site of the Bastille, the fortress built by Charles V between 1370-82. This was removed around 1789,
A fine nineteenth century square inserted into the fabric of the old town. The buildings with their identical facades have arcaded ground floors and ironwork balconies.
The parish of St. Mary’s was large and wealthy and the graveyard became so overcrowded by the mid-nineteenth-century that ‘in order to make room for others,