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Every once in a while - I have this urge to present something more mental than visual. These are kindergarden children led by their teachers to the church thats about 60 metres from the school, within the same placa.
The place is significant. If you have seen war and known gun battles, then see the walls and you will understand.
For me, it's one of the most peaceful & beautiful squares - Placa de Sant Filip Neri in Barcelona; perhaps more so because it is also the most tragic. It was to the baroque church in this tiny square that Gaudi was travelling when he was run over by a tram in the Gran Via and subsequently died. It was also here that a Fascist bomb blast killed many people including 20 children sheltered in the church during the Spanish Civil War by Franco's forces. There is a plaque to commemorate them, and you can still see evidence of the violent past in the pockmarked stone of the church.
Perhaps it is fitting that there is a school here now, and that children play peacefully around the fountain. The trees, fountain and absence of cars give the place an almost rural feel.
The door (now closed - as seen in the photograph) to the baroque church have visible marks of splinters from the bombing that killed innocent women & children during the Civil War - impressing the viewer with the savegery of the massacre.