The Jews and Saracens were marginalised minorities in cities in the Middle Ages. In towns and cities such as Barcelona, Girona, Puigcerdà, Tortosa and Lleida, the Jewish community lived together in quarters that had their own services: a synagogue, butcher, charitable institution, notary's office and a cemetery. Most Jews were artisans and some were extremely skilled in specialised crafts. The urban Saracen population, however, soon vanished from the cities of New Catalonia and moved to rural areas or to cities in Valencia and Aragon, where the population of al-Andalus origin gathered in segregated neighbourhoods or Moorish quarters.