Barbican Estate
The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central London, England, within the City of London.
- Type: Quarter with 4,000 residents
- Description: publicly-owned district in the City of London
- Also known as: “Barbican”, “Barbican (del av en befolkad plats i Storbritannien)”, “מרכז ברביקן”, “バービカン・エステート”, “バービカン･エステート”, and “バービガン・エステイト”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Barbican Arts Centre.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
University
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Finsbury and Golden Lane Estate.
Golden Lane Estate
Neighborhood
Barbican Estate
- Categories: grand ensemble, area of London, skyscraper, mixed-use building, and locality
- Location: City of London, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51946° or 51° 31′ 10″ north
Longitude
-0.09238° or 0° 5′ 33″ west
Population
4,000
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
Open location code
9C3XGW95+Q2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Barbican Estate” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Barbican Estate”
- Arabic: “باربيكان”
- 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”
- German: “Barbican Estate”
- Hebrew: “ברביקן”
- Indonesian: “Barbican Estate”
- Irish: “Barbican Estate”
- Italian: “Barbican Estate”
- 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”
- Spanish: “Barbican Estate”
- Swedish: “Barbican”
- Thai: “บาร์บิคันเอสเตท”
- Turkish: “Barbican Estate”
- Ukrainian: “Барбікан”
- Urdu: “باربیکین اسٹیٹ”
- “Barbican Estate”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Moorgate and Peabody Estate.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Speed Garden and Barbican Theatre.
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