Carrer de les Egipcíaques
El Raval
Barcelona, March 2017
“On Egipcíaques Street, there was established, in 1670, a convent for women of ‘bad reputation’ which, having had a libertine life, hoped to distance themselves from vice and live out a life of exemplary conduct, as did Saint Mary Egipcíaca from whom the convent got its name. In 1679, the Casa de les Egipcíaques (House of the Egipcíaques) was also referred to as the ‘monastery of damsels’ or ‘room of damsels’ and used as a women's prison. Today, the building in Egipcíaques street dates from 1952 and 1954 and it is the headquarters of the Spanish Scientific Reasearch Council in Catalonia.” (Convent de les Egipcíaques, Route You)
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