Street 'de los Umbrales

The ideal Roman cities are designed on the basis of two main axes, which mark the area of the forum, the main public space for civic life. From these streets, an orthogonal urban grid is generated. The Roman colony of Barcino is a good example of this design.

Plan of Roman Barcelona (Barcino) superimposed on the present-day plan of the Gothic Quarter. Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez
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The streets that we now call the Forum and Popilius (in Roman times the streets were not named), which cross each other perpendicularly, are the two main axes of the city. Lucentum. Part of the street plan, such as the Calle de los Umbrales, is adapted to the layout of the previously constructed wall. At Lucentumthe blocks delimited by the streets (insulae) are uneven in surface and shape.

In many cases, the streets of Roman cities are equipped with pavements, steps and water supply systems (fountains) and sewage disposal systems (sewers). The Calle de los Umbrales was not equipped with sewers, but others such as the Calle de Popilio and the Calle del Foro (as shown in the following image) did have sewers.

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