El Fossar de les Moreres square and monument

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El Fossar de les Moreres


Opposite the Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar's eastern flank, an eternal flame burns brightly over a steel arch and an apparently anonymous sunken square: El Fossar de les Moreres (Mulberry Cemetery), the site of a Roman cemetery. Catalan resistance fighters – for whom the flame burns – were buried here after the siege of Barcelona ended in defeat in September 1714.


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