Chained to the square

Montserrat Palau was born in the family home of the Palau-Vergés couple located in Plaça dels Carros, the most emblematic link between the port and the city. In its more than two hundred years of history, it has also been known as Plaça del Mar, del Moll, del Port, Principal, Ferran VII, President Macià and General Sanjurjo in the post-war period.

The family of the writer from Tarragona had a grocery store in the square, and it wasn't until she was a teenager that she moved to Rambla Nova. Thus, Montserrat Palau is a living witness of the urban development that the square experienced due to the works of the railway crossing at the end of the 20th century. The neighbourhood’s nostalgia for the new urban model is witnessed in the story "Chained to the square."