Eastern Spain
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Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes

Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, most often shortened to Glòries, is a large square in , first designed by Ildefons Cerdà to serve as the city centre in his original urban plan, but nowadays relegated to quite a secondary position.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: square in Barcelona, Spain
  • Also known as: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parc de les Glòries and Glòries station.

Park
Photo: Canaan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a park.

Tram stop
Photo: Richie Diesterheft, CC BY 3.0.
Glòries is a station in the Barcelona Metro network, at the boundary between the and districts of . It is served by TMB line L1.

Office building
Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY 4.0.
The Torre Glòries, formerly known as Torre Agbar, is a 38-story skyscraper located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, which marks the gateway to the new technological district of , , Spain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou and El Clot.

Quarter
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El Parc i Llacuna del Poblenou is a neighborhood in the district of , . The cores from this area were established around several parks, and the road that connected with , and la Llacuna.

Quarter
Photo: Amadalvarez, CC BY 3.0.
is a neighborhood in the district of , . It is one of the oldest parts of the district that has been around since the medieval times under the name Clotum Melis.

Neighborhood
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El Camp de l'Arpa del Clot is one of the ten neighborhoods of which compose the district of , . It was annexed by Barcelona in the year 1897. It is situated in the upper part of this district and before it was named Camp de l'Arca.

Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes

Latitude
41.40347° or 41° 24′ 13″ north
Longitude
2.18679° or 2° 11′ 12″ east
Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)
Open location code
8FH4C53P+9P
Geo­Names ID
6269137
Wiki­data ID
Q1426190
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Albanian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Aragonese: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Asturian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Basque: “Katalandar Lorien enparantza”
  • Basque: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Bavarian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Bosnian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Breton: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Catalan: “Les Glòries”
  • Catalan: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Catalan: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Catalan: “Plaça de les Glòries”
  • Cebuano: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Chinese: “加泰罗尼亚荣耀广场”
  • Corsican: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Croatian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Czech: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Danish: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Dutch: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Dutch: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Esperanto: “Placo de la Katalunaj Gloroj”
  • Estonian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Finnish: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • French: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • French: “Plaça de les Glories”
  • French: “Plaça de les Glòries”
  • French: “place des Gloires-Catalanes”
  • French: “Place des Gloires-Catalanes”
  • Friulian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Galician: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • German: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • German: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Hebrew: “פלאסה דה לס גלוריס קטאלנס”
  • Hungarian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Icelandic: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Irish: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Italian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Italian: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Japanese: “グロリアス・カタラーナス広場”
  • Ligurian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Limburgan: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Lithuanian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Lombard: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Low German: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Luxembourgish: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Neapolitan: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Glòries”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plaça de les Glòries”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Norwegian: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Picard: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Piemontese: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Polish: “Placa de les Glories Catalanes”
  • Polish: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Portuguese: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Portuguese: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Romanian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Romansh: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Sardinian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Scots: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Sicilian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Slovak: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Slovenian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de las Glorias Catalanas”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de las Glorias”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de les Glories Catalanes”
  • Swedish: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Swiss German: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Turkish: “Glòries Catalanes Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Venetian: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Vlaams: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Walloon: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”
  • Welsh: “plaça de les Glòries Catalanes”

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