XIII century

Meat stalls are first documented on the Pla de la Boqueria, on the Rambla outside the Barcelona walls

Ashford Castle is built by the de Burgos; the Guinness family holds it from 1852 and it becomes a hotel in 1939

The yam takes hold as a post station a day’s ride apart, where a courier is owed horses and a bed by law rather than by trade — some three hundred of them, outlasting every imperial hotel in this register