FOSSAR DE LES MORERES

The “Fossar de les Moreres” is a memorial square in the city, adjacent to the Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar.It prominently features a memorial to the fallen Catalans during the war of 1714. The site was built over a cemetery where defenders of the city were buried following the Siege of Barcelona at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714. In the XIX century they built cementeries for the church in site the les Moreres. Actually, every 11 of September the people go to commemorate the National Party of Catalonia, in honor of the defenders who died and were buried in this place. STORY OF THE ORIGINS The origin of the Fossar de les Moreres was in the XII century, when the priest of the Santa María del Mar, needed a place to bury their believers, so he asked a bourgeois called Bernard Marcus who donated the land near the church (which is now the site). Marcus handed the ground, but on condition that someone should be buried there in a week, if no one was buried, he would claim the land again. The week passed and no one was buried, so Marcus came to claim his land, but on the road full of mulberry,He died of a heart attack, and he was the first to inaugurate his own cemetery.