Tha Plaça Villa de Madrid, surrounded by buildings with elegant façades, is located very closet o the Rambla and Plaça Catalunya. It contains the most important burial site from the Roman city of Barcino.
This Plaça was designed in the 50s, after the previous monuments that occupied this space where destroyed in 1936. While it was being constructed, a Roman Necropolis was discovered and integrated into a landscape area. From a raised walkway you can see 70 tombd dating from the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
