14th C. – Plaça del Rei, Barcelona From the early middle ages, this square was home to the counts of Barcelona and rulers of the Court of Aragon.
1688 – Place-Royale, Quebec City, Quebec Place Royal is a square in the Lower Town of Quebec. Its centrepieces is the little church Notre-Dame-des-Victoires but the entire composition is a beautiful example of the architecture of New France.
1840 – Place de la Bastille, Paris Architect: Jean Antoine Alavoine Previously the site of the Bastille, the fortress built by Charles V between 1370-82. This was removed around 1789,
1859 – Plaça de Reial, Barcelona Architect: Francesc Daniel Molina A fine nineteenth century square inserted into the fabric of the old town. The buildings with their identical facades have arcaded ground floors and ironwork balconies.
1998 – Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street, Dublin Architect: Peter Cody The parish of St. Mary’s was large and wealthy and the graveyard became so overcrowded by the mid-nineteenth-century that ‘in order to make room for others,