METHODOLOGY

According to the assumptions that inspired this project, with the intention to fully respect the funerary criteria in Jewish tradition, work was based on the analysis and study of the documentation in different property archives for this part of Montjuïc.

We started with the most recent reference, a site plan kept in the Contemporary Municipal Archive of Barcelona (AMCB) prepared for the different expropriations made in preparation for the Exhibition site of the National Electrical and National Spanish Industries, according to the Law of 1914.

The protocols mentioned in these records, together with accurate site plans, allowed us to know how transmissions and successive divisions or aggregations of property were done, in a reverse line -from more recent to earlier times-. This brought us closer to medieval origins and to the information obtained from the documents of that period kept in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon (ACH) and the Regional Archives of Segarra in Cervera (ACS).

Crossing this with other information provided in other site plans of the 17th to 20th centuries, it was possible to understand boundaries and references to place names mentioned in the notarized protocoles.

This research allowed to reconstruct with great approximation, despite the transformation of the area by human action, the delimitation of the site of he cemetery.

Methodology process [pdf]