Mass- and light-weighted mean age and metallicity profiles along the bar major (black) and minor (grey) axis, extended into the disc and normalised by the bar length. This is an example for galaxy NGC 4303. The vertical dashed line shows the position of the nuclear lens component (Herrera-Endoqui et al. 2015) and coincides with the first break in the profile. The vertical dotted line marks the position of the second break.