Our trip to Roman Barcino and the Museo D’historia was quite interesting to me in many ways. First, before I came to Barcelona I truly did not know anything about the history of the city other than it hosted the Olympics in 1992 and was home to FC Barcelona. To find out that Barcelona was once under Roman control was very interesting to me. After meeting up with the rest of our class outside of the Jaume metro stop we started to walk over to the museum. The walk to the museum really gave you a feel of what it was like to live in the city during those times as our walk took place in the narrow alleyways that made up some of the old Roman Barcino. While inside the museum we entered a walkway that held man sculptures that have been preserved from many centuries ago. After viewing the few sculptures we watched a brief video on the history of Barcelona we went into an elevator which had a clock that went back the thousands of years as we descended into the area of the Roman home. Back in those times, with truly close to none of the modern technology that we use, it’s remarkable to see how the people lived, and how efficient and effective their methods were. In the area of the Roman home we saw the massive pool area where the people that lived in the area would use to wash their clothes. The history of wine in Barcelona dates all the way back to the Roman times as they had their own methods of making mine. To see the games that the kids played, including tic-tac-toe, which I remember playing when I was younger fascinated me; the games I played as a kid was played back in the Roman times. If not for this field trip I probably never would have ever visited this Roman area so I am fortunate that we did make this field trip.
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