Llotja de Mar
The Llotja de Mar, or Llotja de Barcelona—“Sea Loggia”—traces Barcelona’s maritime commerce in stone. A porch for merchants was built by Pere Llobet between 1352 and 1357 near the port, where money-changers and ship-related trade had clustered on what was called plaça dels Canvis. As business expanded, 1358 brought the addition of a chapel, and around 1380 Peter the Ceremonious authorised a large enclosed hall to shield traders from weather and sea conditions. The hall’s works ran from 1384 to 1397, with later additions including an upper-floor build in 1457–1459 directed by Marc Safont, making it the seat of the Consulate of the Sea. Today the core of that medieval saló de Contractacions—described by specialists as a standout civil Gothic space in the Mediterranean—survives inside a later 18th-century neoclassical building, designed by Joan Soler i Faneca. …
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