Urquinaona

Urquinaona is a station in the Barcelona Metro network, served by TMB lines L1 and L4. One of the metro stations in the city centre, and one of the busiest, it's located underneath Ronda de Sant Pere and Via Laietana, next to Plaça Urquinaona - after which it is named - in the .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Palau de la Música Catalana and Plaça d’Urquinaona.

Theater building
is a concert hall in , , . Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença. is situated 250 metres southeast of Urquinaona.

Square
The Plaça d'Urquinaona is one of the principal in central . It is officially part of neighbourhood, in the district, and is located at the intersection of the Ronda Sant Pere and Carrer d'Ausiàs Marc.

Theater building
Photo: Color sépia, Public domain.
is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sant Pere and Santa Caterina.

Neighborhood
is a traditional neighborhood of the old city of , . It is named after the monastery de les Puelles. Nowadays, it is a part of the neighborhood.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood.

Quarter
The is the historic centre of the old city of . It stretches from to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to the Ronda de Sant Pere.

Urquinaona

Latitude
41.38861° or 41° 23′ 19″ north
Longitude
2.1726° or 2° 10′ 21″ east
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
Open location code
8FH495QF+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8220384273
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­stop_position
Geo­Names ID
6690844
Wiki­data ID
Q2109006
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Turkish—“Urquinaona” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Urquinaona
  • Basque: Urquinaonako geltokia
  • Catalan: Estació d’Urquinaona
  • Dutch: Urquinaona
  • Esperanto: Urquinaona
  • Finnish: Urquinaonan metroasema
  • French: Urquinaona
  • German: Urquinaona
  • Hungarian: Urquinaona metróállomás
  • Hungarian: Urquinaona
  • Italian: Urquinaona
  • Lombard: Urquinaona
  • Polish: Urquinaona
  • Portuguese: Estação Urquinaona
  • Spanish: Estacion de Urquinaona
  • Spanish: Estación de Urquinaona
  • Turkish: Urquinaona

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