Field trip to museu historia ciutat barcelona

During the month of July I took a history of Barcelona past and present class. During this class our fabulous teacher, Xavi, took us on a couple field trips. You can only learn so much in a class room and the rest you have to see for yourself. I really like the fact that Xavi would take us on field trips and he would walk us all around the older part of Barcelona and talk about the history of the streets and the buildings. I learned a lot about what living conditions were like and that there were no inside bathrooms, so people had to throw their "waste" out the window and there were no washing machines so the women would carry loads and loads of laundry down many flights of stairs to wash it in a community area of water. It was fascinating to see how narrow the streets were and how little the doors were and many of the old stairwells in the apartments couldn't even allow for two people to walk up next to each other because they were so narrow. Xavi pointed out how the windows got smaller as the buildings got higher and how many times the people lived and worked all in one building. We were able to see the differnce in style and architecture and the huge influence the Romans had on Barcelona. Xavi would point the boundries of what Barcelona was so we could see how much has been added. It was fascinating to see the affect the Romans had on the city. Their plan, map and idea is the reason Barcelona is such a successfull city now. They were innovative and practical and left a mark on Barcelona. On our field trip Xavi took us to the museu historia ciutat barcelona where we were able to see and walk through old dug up Roman ruins. We were able to see examples of the floor plans of their home and what the public baths were like, as well as many of the toiletires that women would use. (unfortunatly my camera is broken and I am able to view my pictures on my camera, but it wont turn on and it wont allow me to update any of my pictures so none of my pictures from the past couple of weeks and either of the field trips were uploaded before it broke and pictures of things I saw while walking around are not uploaded...)