The Plaça dels Traginers is so named because it was the site of the guild house of the mulateros, the trajineros de La Ribera, who were the guilds that monopolised the transport of goods in the city of Barcelona and which was destroyed by the opening of the Via Layetana, which began in 1908.
It also contains a 4th century fragment of the ancient Roman wall of Barcelona, a stone bench where people sit to talk and sunbathe and a railing where you can tie up your bike in a tender act of unusual trust.
It is a beautiful place.
