Dark side of BCN: Vampires, exorcists, slave traders, pistoleros, freemasons, illusionists, martyrs, and much more!
Tour description
New exciting, alternative route through the three iconic old barrios: El Born, El Gotico and El Raval ......
What’s the connection between slave trading and Gaudi?
Have you heard of the Vampiress of the Raval drinking children blood?
How did the city most celebrated XIX century Barcelona poet end up as an Exorcist ?
Who are the “Indianos” of Barcelona ?
Have you ever considered Live Entombment for a quick path to Enlightenment?
Have you ever seen the most Masonic building in Barcelona ?
Did you know that there was an Anarchist Terror attack on Las Ramblas a century earlier than the jihadists?
Have you visited the Raval, el barrio Chino, former home of anarchists, hookers, gangsters, morphine addicts and damned poets?
Why did Barcelona use to be called the Manchester of Spain?
Do you know the story of “Eulalia”, the first "catalan" to die for her beliefs, a feminist icon?
Why is the Sagrada Familia an expiatory (atonement) temple ?
Are you aware that Barcelona was the very first Spanish stage for the class struggle between Capital and Labour?
And did you know that Barcelona was the last city to stop slaves trading in the late xix century?
Why did the God’s architect die all alone in an indigents hospital?
From Roman Empire Christian martyrs to medieval inquisition gore; from slavery exploitation to Industrial Revolution working class misery, let me show you THE DARK SIDE of BARCELONA, of which Nobody is willing to tell you.
What will we see on this tour?
