Sant Pere de les Puel·les Church
Sant Pere de les Puel.les, is one of the most unknown churches of Barcelona. It had been part of the old feminine monastery, founded by the Counts Sunyer and Riquilda, during the first half of the 10th Century, and consecrated by the bishop in the year 945, according to the documents still conserved inside the Monastery. The convent was built on an earlier construction, from the 9th century, dedicated to Sant Sadurní, Bishop of Tolossa. Some rests from this first construction can be seen in the atrium, close to the current Capella del Santíssim.
After the fires from the tragically Barcelona Week, a rebuilding was started. Later a stone decorated by a cross was found, near a tombstone with the inscription “OBIIT ERA DCCCCXXVIIII". So, it seems that by 891 some burials were made in the place where the Monastery was built afterwards, perhaps related with the first St. Sadurní church.
Sant Pere de les Puel.les was initially located outside the ancient Roman city wall, until the Count-King Jaume I (the conqueror) build the new city walls in the mid-thirteenth century. Then, the church came inside the precincts of the city, on the "Baluart de Sant Pere”, where the Conseller en Cap, Rafael de Casanova fall wounded on September the 11th, 1714.