Plaza de la Constitución

Today: Plaza de San Jaime, Barcelona

Place: Barcelona
Kind: Square
Built: 1823 to 1840
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The square opened by demolishing the church of Sant Jaume in 1823, from which it takes its name, and inaugurated enlarged in 1840 as the Plaza de la Constitución, a name it kept until 1931. The Generalitat palace and the Casa de la Ciudad face each other across it, and it lies at the centre of ancient Barcino, where the cardo and the decumanus crossed.

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