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Juan Cortada & José de Manjarrés with Josefina Roma (1848). El libro verde de Barcelona. Añalejo de costumbres populares, fiestas religiosas y profanas, usos familiares, efemérides de los sucesos mas notables acaecidos en Barcelona. Barcelona: Sauri. [Private collection: GBS OCR too poor to use.] [more]
By decree of Peter III of the Little Dagger it was ordered that the gallows be removed from the seashore to make room for the erection of the old market house, which began the following year. In 1772 the building was demolished to give it the form it has today, and only the roof and the four central columns of the hall were preserved.
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