Unheard Melodies.

This funerary bust of an unknown man stares out from the past, rescued from oblivion after two millenia buried in the remains of Barcino: the Cartaginian-founded Roman port on whose site modern Barcelona now stands.

Remarkably, the basement of the Museu d'Història de la Ciutat de Barcelona houses an extensive and on-going excavation of this part of the city's foundation; around 4 000 square metres of the Roman city still survives and a series of catwalks allows one to survey the remains of houses, streets and worshops dating from the First Century BC.

"What little town by river or sea-shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,
Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul, to tell
Why thou art desolate, can e'er return."

- John Keats.