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1860 map. Ciutat Vella (Catalan pronunciation: [siwˈtad ˈbeʎə], meaning in English "Old City") is a district of Barcelona, numbered District 1.The name means "old city" in Catalan and refers to the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Barcelona (/ ˌ b ɑːr s ə ˈ l oʊ n ə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə; Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ; Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain.
The Barcelona urban area is an urban area in Catalonia centered on the city of Barcelona and located less than 100 km south of the border with France. With a population of over 5 million, it is one of the largest urban areas in Europe .
El Peix (1992) by Frank Gehry, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta Marc (1997) by Robert Llimós, Parc del Port Olímpic Una habitació on sempre plou (1992) by Juan Muñoz, Plaça del Mar Jose Barraquer, ophthalmologist and pioneer of refractive surgery, born in Barcelona in 1916
Map of Barcelona Evolution of the coastline in the district of Ciutat Vella. The plain of Barcelona (Catalan: Pla de Barcelona) is a plain located in the county of Barcelonès, in Catalonia, Spain. It borders the Mediterranean Sea, the Serra de Collserola mountain range, and the river deltas of the Llobregat and Besòs. [1]
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain is divided into 10 districts. These are administered by a councillor designated by the main city council , and each of them have some powers relating to issues such as urbanism or infrastructure in their area.
Plaça de Catalunya. Plaça de Catalunya (pronounced [ˈplasə ðə kətəˈluɲə], meaning in English "Catalonia Square"; sometimes referred to as Plaza de Cataluña, its Spanish name) is a large square in central Barcelona that is generally considered to be both its city centre and the place where the old city (see Barri Gòtic and Raval, in Ciutat Vella) and the 19th century-built Eixample ...
The Cerdà Plan (Plan de los alrededores de la ciudad de Barcelona y del proyecto para su mejora y ampliación, 1859) instituted an orthogonal layout between Montjuic and the Besòs, with a system of straight northwest-southeast oriented streets, 20 meters wide, cut by other southwest-northeast oriented streets parallel to the coast and the ...