In 2008, I visited Manresa in Catalonia. An uncited passage in Wikipedia explains how the French Troops, defeated during their Napoleonic Invasion (1808), burn

In 2008, I visited Manresa in Catalonia. An uncited passage in Wikipedia explains how the French Troops, defeated during their Napoleonic Invasion (1808), burned and demolished Manresa on retreat, and the villagers simply rebuilt the buildings from the same rubble. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manresa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manresa I can attest that many buildings downtown are definitely rubble-y.