The Montcada Street Palaces (Picasso Museum)

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Across the medieval rooftops of the Picasso Museum rides a death-horseman on a skeletal steed – the vengeful ghost of the House of Montcada has never left the saddle.

The Picasso Museum occupies a row of Gothic palaces on Carrer de Montcada, the street named after the powerful noble House of Montcada. Dark episodes cling to the lineage – the murder of an archbishop, feuds and imprisonments – and from them grew the legend of Guillem Ramon de Montcada. The tale says he was kidnapped after his wedding and chained in a cellar by a spiteful bishop, and that his spirit never found peace. Night walkers in the Ribera quarter say he appears mounted on a skeletal horse, spurring across the palace rooftops in search of revenge. Museum guards have reported hoofbeats and footsteps in the empty Gothic galleries after closing, where only Picasso's paintings should keep watch.

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The Montcada Street Palaces (Picasso Museum) is in Barcelona, Spain.

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