El Born Centre for Culture and Memory (El Born CCM) & Archaeological Site

The Born CCM is a space that is at the service of the city with the aim of encouraging and promoting reflection on local and national memory and the memory of events that affect human communities around the world.The Born CCM is integrated into the building that was the old Mercado del Born, opened in 1876. The building is part of other architectural interventions of a historical moment in which Barcelona is inserted into European modernity. In the subsoil, an archaeological site has been found with the remains of the delineation of the streets and houses of Barcelona in 1700, which are witness to both life in the city and the consequences of the siege of 1714.

The Born Center de Cultura i Memòria, located in the old Mercat del Born, is a 21st century cultural facility that shows the lively and dynamic Barcelona of the 1700s and the events of 1714 in the context of the War of the Spanish Succession. The site contains the remains of the neighborhood demolished by Felipe V. It is a multipurpose public access space with an extensive program that aims to invite reflection on the past, present and future of Barcelona and of Catalonia. The Born Center for Culture and Memory was the epicenter of the Tricentennial commemoration events in Barcelona, which took place between September 2013 and September 2014.

Enormous dimensions for these beautiful ruins in El Born.