Barbican Estate

The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central , England, within the .
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  • Type: Quarter with 4,000 residents
  • Description: residential estate in the City of London, England, UK
  • Also known as: Barbican

Places of Interest

Highlights include Barbican Arts Centre and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Arts center
The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the , England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions.

University
The is a music and drama school located in the , . Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts.

Church
is an Anglican church in the , located on Fore Street within the modern Barbican complex. When built it stood without the city wall, near the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Finsbury and Golden Lane Estate.

Suburb
is a district of North-, forming the southeastern part of the . It borders the . The Manor of is first recorded as Vinisbir and means "manor of a man called Finn".

Neighborhood
The is a 1950s council housing complex in the . It was built on the northern edge of the City, on a site devastated by bombing during the Second World War.

Neighborhood
is an area in the , situated immediately north of its border with the . The term is used to describe the area around .

Barbican Estate

Latitude
51.51931° or 51° 31′ 10″ north
Longitude
-0.09397° or 0° 5′ 38″ west
Population
4,000
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGW94+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7628489780
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
6690593
Wiki­data ID
Q2319878
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Barbican Estate” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Barbican Estate
  • Basque: Barbican Estate
  • Belarusian: Барбікан
  • Catalan: Barbican Estate
  • Cebuano: Barbican
  • Chinese: 巴比肯屋村
  • Czech: Barbican Estate
  • Dutch: Barbican Estate
  • Egyptian Arabic: باربيكان استيت
  • Esperanto: Barbican Estate
  • French: Barbican Estate
  • French: domaine de Barbican
  • French: Domaine de Baribican
  • German: Barbican Estate
  • Hebrew: ברביקן
  • Hebrew: מרכז ברביקן
  • Indonesian: Barbican Estate
  • Irish: Barbican Estate
  • Italian: Barbican Estate
  • Japanese: バービカン・エステート
  • Japanese: バービカン・エステート
  • Japanese: バービガン・エステイト
  • Japanese: バービカンエステート
  • Korean: 바비칸 에스테이트
  • Latin: Barbacana
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Barbican
  • Norwegian: Barbican Estate
  • Russian: Барбикан
  • Serbo-Croatian: Barbican naselje
  • Slovak: Barbican Estate
  • Slovenian: Barbican Estate
  • Slovenian: Barbican
  • Spanish: Barbican Estate
  • Swedish: Barbican (del av en befolkad plats i Storbritannien)
  • Swedish: Barbican
  • Thai: บาร์บิคันเอสเตท
  • Turkish: Barbican Estate
  • Ukrainian: Барбікан
  • Urdu: باربیکین اسٹیٹ
  • Barbican Estate

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