Al Passeig de Gràcia, que és un dels carrers més emblemàtics de Barcelona, hi ha unes rajoles molt boniques dissenyades per l’arquitecte més famós de la ciutat, Antoni Gaudí. L’enrajolat configura un disseny molt interessant es necessiten 7 rajoles per veure’l tot: Cada rajola està decorada amb un terç de cada un dels components del panot, un terç d'estrella de mar (equinoderm), un terç d'ammoniti un terç d'algues del gènere sargassum. És d'aquesta manera que es necessiten 7 rajoles juntes per a poder contemplar en la seva totalitat els tres components que conformen el conjunt.
Un hexàgon el podem dividir per exemple en triangles:
On es poden trobar més hexàgons a Barcelona: mercat Santa Caterina
També hi ha altres coses “misterioses” a Barcelona
Al Passeig de Borbó hi ha una altra instal·lació curiosa
Hi ha una sèrie de nombres en neons al passeig de Borbó: Aquesta sèrie consta de 21 xifres: comença amb el 1 i acaba amb el 10946. Aquesta seqüència es diu la seqüència de Fibonacci
A Barcelona podem trobar moltes aus que desconeixem. Sovint només ens fixem en els coloms i en les cotorres de color verd però en podem trobar molts més.
Mira el video sobre ocells urbans que es poden trobar a la ciutat de Barcelona
Marc geogràfic físic. Elabora el mapa de Catalunya tot pintant segons correspongui a la unitat de relleu.
SERRALADES
En color marró
SERRALADA LITORAL
SERRALADA PRELITORAL
PIRINEU
PREPIRINEU
DEPRESSIONS
En color verd
DEPRESSIÓ LITORAL
DEPRESSIÓ PRELITORAL
DEPRESSIÓ CENTRAL
RIUS
En color blau
NOGUERA RIBAGORÇANA
SEGRE
FRANCOLÍ
GAIÀ
FOIX
LLOBREGAT
BESÒS
TORDERA
TER
FLUVIÀ
MUGA
BARCELONA
En vermell
Mira’t el mapa de districtes i dibuixa la forma de Barcelona al mapa mut en vermell
Marc històric-administratiu. Observa el mapa de Barcelona tot identificant : Ciutat Vella (la Barcelona romana i la Barcelona medieval) en vermell, l’Eixample(el pla Cerdà) en verd i les antigues viles annexionades a la Barcelona actual en marró.
You have to do the following activities: 1. Watch a video and answer the questions (individually) 2. Read a text about Ancient Barcelona and answer some questions (individually) 3. Oral Presentation: prepare a conversation with a tourist Dossier crèdit de síntesi
2. They recommend a castle and a mountain, which are they?
3. Which 2 museums are there in Montjuïc?
4. What sports equipment is mentioned?
5. There is a representation of a Spanish Village. Which is it?
6. What is the name of the fountain?
7. What sportive equipment in Sants is mentioned?
8. What is there in the harbour?
9. What is the most famous street in BCN?
10. Which 2 districts does it divide?
11. Which 5 things can you visit in Las Ramblas?
12. what is the main shopping street?
13. Name a department store in Pl Catalunya.
14.What is the most exclusive street departing from Pl Catalunya?
15. What buildings by Gaudí are mentioned?
16. What is the shape of the blocks in eixample?
17. What unfinished temple can you visit in l'Eixample?
18. What is the name of the tower illuminated at night?
19. The best views in Barcelona are in...
20. Which of the places mention in the video you didn’t know?
2. TEXT: ANCIENT BARCELONA
History of Barcelona
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The history of Barcelona stretches back well over 2000 years to its origins as an Iberian village named Barkeno. Its easily defensible location on the coastal plain between the Collserola ridge (512 m) and the Mediterranean sea, the coastal route between central Europe and the rest of the Iberian peninsula, has ensured its continued importance, if not always preeminence, throughout the ages.
Barcelona is now a city of 1,620,943 inhabitants, the second largest in Spain, and the capital of the autonomous communityof Catalonia. Its wider urban region is home to three-quarters of the population of Catalonia and one-eighth of that of Spain.
Origins
In the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the area was settled by the Laietani, an Ιberian people, at Barkeno on the Táber hill (in the present-day Ciutat Vella, or "Old City") and at Laie (or Laiesken), believed to have been located on Montjuïc.
It is sometimes asserted that the area was occupied c. 230 BC by Carthaginian troops under the leadership of Hamilcar Barca,
Roman Barcino
The name Barcino was formalised around the end of the reign of Caesar Augustus (AD 14). It was a shortened version of the name which had been official up until then, Colonia Faventia Julia Augusta Pia Barcino (also Colonia Julia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino) and Colonia Faventia. As a colonia, it was established to distribute land among retired soldiers.
At the time of Caesar Augustus, Barcino had the form of a castrum, with the usual central forum and perpendicular main streets: the Cardus Maximus (Carrer de la Llibreteria) and the Decumanus Maximus (Carrer del Bisbe) intersecting at the top (25 m) of the Táber hill (Mons Táber), site of the Iberian Barkeno. The perimeter walls were 1.5 km long, enclosing an area of 12 ha.
Significant vestiges of Roman Barcino can be seen in the underground displays of the Barcelona City History Museum(MUHBA), which also maintains other heritage sites from Roman times in Barcelona.
Visigothic Barchinona
At the start of the 5th century, the Western Roman Empire suffered ever more serious attacks at the hands of various Germanic peoples, notably the Goths and the Vandals. Ataulf established his court at Barcino, where he was murdered by one of his own troops in 415.
The death of Ataulf, who had imprisoned then married Galla Placidia, daughter of the emperorTheodosius I, changed the relations between the Visigoths and the Romans.
Barcino would remain an important, if provincial, centre of the Visigoth kingdom, notably because of its excellent defensive walls.
The language spoken at the time was undoubtedly Vulgar Latin, including by the Visigoth rulers who were rapidly Latinised. Over time, the spelling of the LatinBarcino (declined as Barcinone, Barcinonem, Barcinonam, Barcinona) gradually came to include an intercalated "h" to represent the hard /k/ sound (as in modern Italian), and the use of the different Latin cases declined.
Jewish Barchinona
The Jewish population of Barcino/Barchinona dates from the mid-4th century at the latest. While the Jewish religion had been tolerated by the Romans, Jews suffered varying degrees of discrimination and persecution under the Visigoths.
Muslim Barshiluna
Moorish forces arrived in the Iberian peninsula in 711. ostensibly to assist Achila II in the civil war which opposed him against Roderic.
Muslim rule in Barshiluna (also transliterated as Medina Barshaluna, Madinat Barshaluna, Bargiluna[and Barxilun) lasted less than a century. While the cathedral was converted into a mosque and taxes levied on non-Muslims, religious freedom and civil government was largely respected. The local Walī (Military Chief) was mostly concerned with military matters; the count and the local bishop generally had day-to-day control of the local population.
Read the previous text and answer the following questions in the grid.
1-What is the first name of the Iberian village that originated Barcelona
2-How many inhabitants does Barcelona have nowadays?
3-Barcelona was settled in a hill and a mountain. Which?
4-Which Carthaginian general was believed to have occupied Barcelona?
5-What was the complete name of Roman Barcino
6-What was the name of the central point of intersection between the Cardus Maximus and the Decumanus Maximus?
7-Which street is the Cardus Maximus nowadays?
8-Which street is the Decumanus Maximus nowadays?
9-Which museum maintains Roman vestiges nowadays?
10-Which monarch established his court in Barcino?
11-Who was Galla Placidia?
12-What language did they speak in Visigothic Barchinona?
13-What did Jewish suffer under the Visigoths?
14-Which year did Moorish forces arrive in the Iberian Peninsula?
15-Which monarch did they have to assist?
16-Which monarch were they supposed to fight against?
