Fabulous, I am loving this virtual tour of Barcelona, makes me want to go even more!

Brilliant Simon. I remember visiting this plaza way back in the early 1980's and standing shocked looking at those walls. Someone said that a bomb had been dropped there - never did pursue the story. But amazing that it hasn't been patched up by one govt or another over the decades

They are not gunshot marks, that was Franco's excuse during his time in power; execution of Republican troublemakers. Rather it was a bomb dropped by Mussolini's Air Force on the 30th January 1938. 42 people were killed, hiding in the basement of the church, tragically including 20 children from the nearby school. There is a plaque in the square in remembrance to those people's deaths, obviously slipped your notice Simon. The story you heard was Franco attempting to seem less connected to the murder of children in the country he was trying to win over. If you look up high, the shrapnel marks rise to about 20 feet, those Fascists weren't that bad shots were they? :)