The anatomical amphitheater is the jewel of the building of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia, located in the heart of Ciutat Vella, in Barcelona, opposite the Institute of Catalan Studies. In the very center of this amphitheater there is an original rotating marble table where students performed dissections of corpses. The corpses arrived, still warm, from the Hospital de la Santa Creu, located side by side. They were from people who died completely alone and whose bodies no one claimed.