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When you visit Barcelona don’t forget to enter the endless alleys of Born.The Born district is a part of the old town. It’s a mix of old and new. The fashionable blends with the whispers of the ancient history that makes you feel like you have travelled back in time.
A legend says that, about 400 years before Rome was build, Hercules founded the city of Barcelona and named it “Βαρκινών”. According to another legend, in the third century BC, a Carthaginian called Hamilcar Barca named the city “Barcino” after his family. The most credible version is the fact that in 15BC the Romans staked the city out as a military camp, or “castrum”, and named it “Colonia Julia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino”, with its centre being on a small hill near the modern day Plaça de Sant Jaume.
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