Street where lived the Cardona in a large manor house with porches and details of the daily life of knights.

This street name preserved the name of the Cardona Knights, of the Catalan Cardona dynasty, related to the kings of Aragon. They were named knights by King Charles I, emperor of Germany, by their war merits against the Valencia brotherhood, who saved the life to the royal lieutenant.

Even today we can recognize their ancestral house, which went from the porch to the High Street. In it was a large building, originally Gothic, with extensions and reforms of the sixteenth century, crowned by an upper gallery of semicircular windows at the Aragon way, which can still be admired.

The Knights street also contains other details that reinforce its name, which you can find on the audio guide, which is why we recommend not to stop using it.

And of course, in the Middle Ages was the horse was a great way of transportation, as well as an element of superiority in battles. Marked by the customs of Tortosa, the streets and paths inside and outside the entrances, should receive the same treatment and statutes than entrances and walls. That meant to take great care and ensure the integrity and proper maintenance to ensure their use not to cause difficulties in public transit riders.