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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].
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

The Cloister of Saint Augustin, Sant Pere de les Puel·les
Palau de la Música Catalana
  1. ^ http://www.homeandabroad.com/c/74/Site/103339_Barri_de_Sant_Pere_visit.html
  2. ^ "Terra": Review of Sant Pere de les Puells[1]
  3. ^ "Time Out Online"[2]
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