Sant Pere, Barcelona
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Sant Pere (san perə, El barri de Sant Pere in Catalan) is a neighborhood in District 1 (Ciutat Vella), the old city of Barcelona, Spain. It is name after the monastery Sant Pere de les Puelles. Its officially part of the neighborhood Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera.
Points of interest
- The neighbor hood received its name from the 10th century monastery of Sant Pere de les Puelles, (Saint Peter of the Innocents)[1], at Lluís El Piadós 1. The monastery is named after girls the disfigured themselves to avoid rape and murder by the invading Moors[2].
- The concert hall Palau de la Música Catalana of Lluís Domènech i Montaner (Palace of Catalan Music) is located at Sant Francesc de Paula 2[3].
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sant Pere.
http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/europe/sant-pere.shtml Travel Adventures page for Sant Pere, with photographs
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