Plaça Sant Jaume
The Plaça de Sant Jaume is a square at the center of the Old City of Barcelona and the administrative heart of both the city and surrounding Catalonia.Photo: Axelv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Herodotptlomeu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Square
- Description: square in Barcelona, Spain
- Also known as: “Placa Sant Jaume”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museum of the History of Barcelona and La Rambla.
Museum of the History of Barcelona
Museum
Photo: Kippelboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of the History of Barcelona is a history museum that conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the historical heritage of the city of Barcelona, from its origins in Roman times until the present day. Museum of the History of Barcelona is situated 140 metres north of Plaça Sant Jaume.
La Rambla
La Rambla is considered the most well known street in central Barcelona. A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 kilometres connecting the Plaça de Catalunya in its center with the Christopher Columbus Monument at Port Vell. La Rambla is situated 350 metres southwest of Plaça Sant Jaume.
Temple of Augustus, Barcelona
Photo: Enfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Temple of Augustus in Barcelona was a Roman temple built during the Imperial period in the colony of Barcino. The temple was the central building on Tàber Hill, currently in Carrer del Paradís number 10, in the city's so-called Gothic Quarter.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gothic Quarter and Santa Caterina.
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.
La Ribera
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Ribera is one of the areas of the quarter of Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera of Ciutat Vella of Barcelona.
Plaça Sant Jaume
- Category: urban ensemble
- Location: Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Plaça Sant Jaume” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Basque: “Sant Jaume enparantza”
- Catalan: “plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Catalan: “Plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Catalan: “Plaça Sant Jaume”
- Chinese: “圣若梅广场”
- Chinese: “聖若梅廣場”
- Dutch: “Placa de Sant Jaume”
- Dutch: “Plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Dutch: “Plaça Sant Jaume”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلاسا سانت جاومى”
- Esperanto: “Placo Sankta Jakobo”
- French: “place Saint-Jacques”
- French: “place San Jaime”
- French: “place Sant Jaume”
- French: “Place Sant Jaume”
- Galician: “Plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Italian: “Plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Italian: “Plaza de San Jaimee”
- Japanese: “サン・ジャウマ広場”
- Macedonian: “Плоштад на Свети Јаков”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Norwegian: “Plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Portuguese: “Praça de Sant Jaume”
- Portuguese: “Praça de São Jaime”
- Russian: “Площадь Святого Иакова”
- Slovenian: “plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Slovenian: “Plaza de San Jaime”
- Spanish: “Plaça de Sant Jaume”
- Spanish: “Plaça Sant Jaume”
- Spanish: “Plaza de San Jaime”
- Spanish: “Plaza de Sant Jaume”
- Spanish: “Plaza San Jaime”
- Spanish: “Plaza Sant Jaume”
- Turkish: “Plaça Sant Jaume”
- Turkish: “Sant Jaume Meydanı”
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