On Saturday, 14 January, we're offering the final route “Spiritualities, religions and sexual-affective activity outside the norm: a history of persecution and resistance” from 11 am to 1pm, led by the historian Salvador Lou, from the Barcelona Rebelde project.
On Saturday, 14 January, we’re offering the final route “Spiritualities, religions and sexual-affective activity outside the norm: a history of persecution and resistance” from 11 am to 1pm, led by the historian Salvador Lou, from the Barcelona Rebelde project.
The meeting point will be the Centre Cívic Convent de Sant Agustí (Carrer del Comerç, 36), from where we’ll embark on a route around a labyrinth of streets in the Born and Gòtic neighbourhoods, ending up in Rambla dels Caputxins and following the imprints left in the city’s old quarter by various spiritual and religious practices and traditions.
Saturday’s route will be the last of those in the “Spiritualities” cycle which began in October. Places on this route have all been reserved.
The itinerary covers historic events such as the persecution of Roma people, Muslims and Jews in Barcelona in the Middle Ages, as well as the witch-hunt and tribunals of the Inquisition, linking their contexts to the persecution of women and sexual, affective and gender dissidence.
The activity also looks at more recent circumstances, such as the first international congress on spiritualism, held in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, the repression of LGBTIQA+ people carried out by national Catholicism during the Franco dictatorship, the emergence of cabaret venues in El Raval as a form of gender dissident resistance and the historical demonstration for LGBTI freedom in Les Rambles in 1977.
The guide for this particular route on hidden and clandestine spiritualities outside of the Catholic hegemony is Salvador Lou, a historian specialising in social history and creator of the Barcelona Rebelde project, a series of itineraries on the role of the working classes, dissidence and the subordinate classes in our past.