Recent infrastructure works in the Ribera neighborhood have unearthed cannonballs, coins, and the original street layout of the city destroyed after the 1714 siege. These remains belong to the 14 blocks demolished by Philip V to create a military esplanade around the Ciutadella fortress.
“"The government is obliged to open a file and, to reject it, they would have to justify the unjustifiable: that this space has no historical value."
The site also contains a medieval necropolis and remains of the Palau de les Belles Arts from the 1888 Universal Exhibition. If the BCIN status is granted, it would halt the Justice Department's plan to build a new 100-million-euro provincial court on the plot.
