MUHBA (Museum of the History of Barcelona)
Below Plaça del Rei you walk the actual streets of Roman Barcino, two millennia under the Gothic Quarter.
Coming soon on iOS — be first to walk Barcelona offline.
Over 4,000 m² of excavated Roman city, not a reconstruction. You cross real streets and factory floors: laundries, dye works, and salted-fish, garum and winery workshops.
What to look for
- The tabernae (shops) alongside the production floors — proof this was a factory quarter, not just houses.
- The cardo minor street, the intervallum path inside the city wall, and the Early Christian and Visigothic episcopal complex down here: a cross-shaped church, bishop's palace and baptistery.
- Upstairs: the Saló del Tinell's wide round arches and the Chapel of Saint Agatha's 15th-century Gothic altarpiece by Jaume Huguet.
Casa Padellàs, the house above, was moved here stone by stone in 1931 for the opening of Via Laietana; the rebuild uncovered the ruins below. Allow about 1.5 hours underground.
MUHBA (Museum of the History of Barcelona) is one of 39 sights worth the detour in Barcelona, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Barcelona pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Barcelona
- Sagrada FamíliaGaudí is buried beneath a church begun in 1882 and still unfinished — one that in 2025 became the world's tallest.
- Camp NouThe bowl that once crammed 120,000 people in to watch Barça — European football's biggest room.
- Park GüellGaudí's failed luxury subdivision — 2 of 60 planned homes ever built — that Barcelona inherited as a mosaic playground.
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera)Gaudí's last private house looks like a wind-carved sea cliff parked on a city corner.
- Casa BatllóGaudí reskinned a townhouse into a slain dragon, down to columns shaped like leg bones.
- Barcelona CathedralThirteen white geese live in the cloister — one for each year Saint Eulalia was alive before Rome killed her.