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The Cerdà plan, c. 1850. Plaça de les Glòries is the large square in the centre. Plaça de les Glòries, which was then well outside the city, was originally featured in the mid-19th-century Cerdà plan for Barcelona, intended as a large public square in a new city centre, but it remained sparsely developed, turning into one of Barcelona's major road and railway junctions.
Glories may refer to: The plural of the English word glory Glòries , a usual shortened form of Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes , a major square in Barcelona.
Glòries is a station in the Barcelona Metro network, at the boundary between the Eixample and Sant Martí districts of Barcelona. It is served by TMB line L1. The station is named after the nearby Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes. It was opened in 1951, when Line 1 was extended from Marina to Clot. It can be accessed from Carrer d'Àlaba and ...
The building stands out in Barcelona; it is the third tallest building in the city, after the Arts Hotel and the Mapfre Tower, which both stand 154 m (505 ft) tall. A defining feature of the building is its nocturnal illumination. It has 4,500 LED devices that allow generation of luminous images on its façade.
L'Auditori. L'Auditori (Catalan pronunciation: [ləwðiˈtɔɾi]) is a modern building of 42,000 square metres designed by the architect Rafael Moneo, opened on 22 March 1999, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Ildefons Cerdà's so-called Pla Cerdà was not totally successful in transforming Barcelona's urban reality, as only parts of it were finally approved. The construction of Avinguda Diagonal is one of the projects it entailed that became reality, when a Royal Decree from Queen Isabella II of Spain and Leopoldo O'Donnell's Spanish government in Madrid allowed him to start the construction of the ...
Barcelona is a city historically linked to design, with longstanding institutions such as the Foment de les Arts Decoratives. For this reason, the city of Barcelona proposed, earlier in the 2000s, the creation of a single center—an integrated space that would help the public understand design in a broader context.
The city is annexed by Napoleonic France and incorporated into the First French Empire (1812) The Spanish Civil War and the Franco period (1936–1975) Barcelona becomes capital of the Republic of Spain from November 1937 until January 1939; The city falls into Nationalist hands on 26 January 1939; Modern Barcelona (1975–present)