Casa Padellàs
Casa Padellàs—*Padellàs’s House*—is one of Barcelona’s rare Gothic residences that survived the city’s early-20th-century transformation. Originally standing at number 25 in Carrer Mercaders, it was taken apart in 1931 and relocated to the Plaça del Rei because the construction of the Via Laietana in the early 1900s would otherwise have destroyed it. The palace was built between 1497 and 1515, on the corner of Carrer Mercaders and Carrer Tarascó. It likely involved Joan d’Hostalric-Sabastida i Llull, a royal counselor and governor of the counties of Rosselló and Cerdanya, who was ennobled in 1513. By 1584, the property belonged to the Casamitjana family, with Rafael Casamitjana d’… among its residents. Since 1943, Casa Padellàs has housed the Barcelona City History Museum, making a medieval court and arcade—adapted to today’s exhibitions—an active setting for the city’s story. …
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