2º A BILINGÜE: CLASE DEL 20 DE ABRIL DE 2020

Good morning everybody!

Last Thursday, we started to study daily life in medieval cities. We also said that medieval cities were organised around the main square, where we could find the cathedral or the town hall. Their streets were narrow and were not always paved. 

Today, we are going to study deeper how the medieval cities were.

Inside the city, the modest houses were closer among them. We also could find palaces, monasteries, convents, parish churches, workshops and shops, etc. 

However, outside the walls of the city, there were buildings and places too: cemeteries, hospitals and vegetable gardens. For example, cemeteries and hospitals were almost always outside cities because of healthy reasons. 

We have also to say that when the city's population increased, the walls were made bigger in order to build new houses inside it.  

Medieval cities were noisy and dirty places. Their streets were always full of people and animals, and there was also one inconvenient: people used to throw out the rubbish of the windows into the streets.  In Spanish, the expression "agua va" is because this fact. 

Finally, I give you a scheme that summarises the main points about medieval cities. Tomorrow, we are going to study how the houses were and a bit about medieval people's daily life.