The Raval
El Raval is a neighborhood in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia. The neighborhood, especially the part closest to the old port, was formerly known as Barri Xinès or Barrio Chino, meaning "Chinatown".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter with 45,700 residents
- Description: administrative quarter in Barcelona in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain
- Also known as: “Barri Xino”, “El Raval”, “El Raval neighorhood”, “El Raval neighourhood”, and “Raval”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Library of Catalonia and La Rambla.
Library of Catalonia
Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Library of Catalonia is the Catalan national library, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The primary mission of the Library of Catalonia is to collect, preserve, and spread Catalan bibliographic production and that related to the Catalan linguistic…
La Rambla
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sant Antoni and Gothic Quarter.
Sant Antoni
Quarter
Photo: Pere prlpz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sant Antoni is a neighborhood in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia. Its non-official centre, the marketplace of the same name—designed by Antoni Rovira i Trias and built between 1872 and 1882—is one of the oldest and most popular in the city, especially with the secondhand book stalls that surround the building Sunday mornings.
Gothic Quarter
Quarter
Photo: Michal Huniewicz, CC BY 3.0.
The Gothic Quarter is the historic centre of the old city of Barcelona. It stretches from La Rambla to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to the Ronda de Sant Pere.
El Poble-sec
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Poble-sec is a neighborhood in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona, Catalonia. The neighborhood is located between Montjuïc mountain and the Avinguda del Paral·lel.
The Raval
- Categories: administrative quarter in Barcelona, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.37952° or 41° 22′ 46″ northLongitude
2.16837° or 2° 10′ 6″ eastPopulation
45,700Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)Open location code
8FH495H9+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1433947858OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
3123673Wikidata ID
Q1758503
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“The Raval” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Էլ Ռավալ”
- Basque: “El Raval”
- Catalan: “Barri del Raval”
- Catalan: “Barri xino”
- Catalan: “el Raval”
- Catalan: “El Raval”
- Catalan: “Raval de Barcelona”
- Catalan: “Raval”
- Chinese: “Raval拉巴尔区”
- Chinese: “Raval拉巴爾區”
- Chinese: “埃尔拉瓦尔”
- Chinese: “拉巴尔”
- Chinese: “拉巴爾”
- Croatian: “El Raval”
- Czech: “El Raval”
- Czech: “Raval”
- Dutch: “El Raval”
- Dutch: “Raval”
- Esperanto: “El Raval”
- French: “El Raval”
- French: “Raval”
- Galician: “El Raval”
- German: “El Raval”
- Hebrew: “אל רבאל”
- Irish: “El Raval”
- Italian: “El Raval”
- Italian: “Raval”
- Japanese: “エル・ラバル”
- Japanese: “ラバル地区”
- Korean: “라발 / 바리 크시니스”
- Malagasy: “El Raval”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “El Raval”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Raval”
- Norwegian: “El Raval”
- Persian: “ال رابال”
- Polish: “El Raval”
- Polish: “Raval”
- Portuguese: “El Raval”
- Romanian: “El Raval”
- Romanian: “Raval”
- Russian: “Эль Раваль”
- Slovenian: “El Raval”
- Slovenian: “Raval”
- Spanish: “Barri del Raval”
- Spanish: “Barrio Chino de Barcelona”
- Spanish: “Barrio del Raval”
- Spanish: “Barrio el Raval”
- Spanish: “El Raval”
- Spanish: “Raval”
- Swedish: “El Raval”
- Swedish: “Raval”
- Turkish: “El Raval”
- Ukrainian: “Ель Раваль”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Casa Leopoldo and El Llantiol.
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