Palau Requesens
Palau Requesens, or *Palau de la Comtessa de Palamós*, is built into Barcelona’s story of land, law, and power, attached to the Roman city wall. The first documentary mention is from 1286, when Ramon Fiveller sold houses with “two towers and two shops” for 9,200 *sous* near the church of Sants Just i Pastor. By 1300, the property had taken on the Gothic identity you associate with the building today, later becoming a *bé cultural d’interès nacional*. What looks like “Requesens” in the name is actually the result of historical confusion: a 29 December 1551 deed records that Ferran Folc de Cardona and de Requesens, duke of Somma and count of Palamós, sold the houses to the knight Pere Caçador. That corner of the past is now tied to administration through the Arxiu Municipal Contemporani de Barcelona. Today the palace functions as the home of the Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres and also hosts the *Galeria de Catalans Il·lustres*.
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