7. Santa Eulalia Square: cabbages, bread, noodles, parsley, the fishmonger's and the butchers from the Middle Ages, seen from the point of view of the

©Text i fotos: Àngel Gené i Ramis; traducció a l'anglès: Montserrat Casanovas i Stobart; suport informàtic: Martí Gené i Ramis

After the Catalonian conquest, this Square became an important market, above all of vegetables, that's why in the nineteenth century it was still called as "The cabbages Square"

The church of Santa Eulalia is the dominant element, and next to it some of the streets names indicate what was sold here: the Bread, Noodles, Parsley, Fish and Meat streets. Many of this kind of markets had already disappeared in the early twentieth century, they moved to the new and nearby Plaça Major (Main Square). The main tendency of the moment was to concentrate all the markets in one place to improve the sanitary conditions.