'The Monastery’s Medieval Garden' Exhibition

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1 June 2022 · 10:00

Museu Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes, Pedralbes, Les Corts

The Hort Petit del Monestir, as the nuns call it, is a walled cultivation area of almost 3,000 square metres on the southern façade of the walled complex, opposite the sala de les Procures, where the harvest was stored. From this not-so-small garden, the nuns obtained some of the vegetables, pulses and fruit they cooked, as well as herbs used to prepare medicines for the community from the convent's foundation in 1327 until the late 20th century. In 2017, the Museu del Monestir began a project to restore the original use of this space, with the aim of reconstructing a four-plot garden as it might have existed during the Middle Ages. For this reason, it does not include species that arrived in Europe from the Americas after 1492. To understand as accurately as possible what the medieval garden may have been like, a multidisciplinary team was formed with specialists from history, archaeology, botany, archaeobiology, architecture, museography, environmental education and social services, approaching the project from different perspectives. The archaeological intervention carried out at the start of the works documented five clear chronological phases in the use of the space, spanning…

Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026

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