Category: Medieval

The streets of the medieval town of Roses are notable  for their regularity. They are rectilinear streets, just over  three and a half meters  wide, paved with cobblestones and which normally had a kind of central spine that facilitated the drainage of rainwater. In the western part of town, most of the streets were oriented east to west. In the eastern part, on the other hand, they were arranged north to south. In this area, there were two long streets, the Carrer Major  (Main Street) and the Carrer Nou  (New Street), which connected the port area with the monastery. Between them were long blocks of houses. In this section , there was only one small alley that connected  the two main streets and another one that connected the block on the Carrer Nou with the eastern  wall.

The Carrer Major  began at the gate of the same name, the main entrance  to the town, which no longer exists. The town had at least four gates, perhaps five. Documentation mentions two gates on the south side (the Major and the Gener gate) and very probably one on the west side. In the north, documentation mentions another gate (Portal Superior or Damunt), next to the monastery, but perhaps another one existed in the northeast corner.