Gal·la Placídia

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This square, which now marks the border between two districts, conceals a rail link between the Vallès and the centre of Barcelona.

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The point where Gràcia meets Sant Gervasi, it is one of the busiest squares in the Vila de Gràcia neighbourhood. It was in 1927, during the work to place the tracks of the Sarrià Railway underground, that the remains were found of the broken cross the square had been named after and which marked the point where the Cassoles and Vallcarca streams converged. It is now named after a Roman empress, the wife of the Visigothic king Athaulf, who lived in Barcelona around the year 415.
It holds a place in the local people’s hearts because of the wooden horses of the merry-go-round in the Caspolino funfair that delighted them for three generations.

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