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Ciutat Vella

Ciutat Vella is, as its name suggests, the oldest part of . Centred along the Las Ramblas boulevard, it includes Barcelona's old port as well as parts built from the early Middle Ages to mid-19th century.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Palau de la Música Catalana and La Rambla.

Theater building
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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.

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is considered the most well known street in central . A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 kilometres connecting the in its center with the at .

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The is a mansion designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí for the industrial tycoon Eusebi Güell, and was built between 1886 and 1888. It is situated on the Carrer Nou de la Rambla, in the of in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eixample and The Raval.

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The is the quarter designed during the middle of the 19th century by Ildefons Cerdà, expanding the medieval city of into space left empty for defense outside the city walls.

Quarter
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El Raval is a neighborhood in the Ciutat Vella district of , the capital city of . The neighborhood, especially the part closest to the , was formerly known as Barri Xinès or Barrio Chino, meaning "Chinatown".

Quarter
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is a neighborhood in the district of , . Its non-official centre, the marketplace of the same name—designed by Antoni Rovira i Trias and built between 1872 and 1882—is one of the oldest and most popular in the city, especially with the secondhand book stalls that surround the building Sunday mornings.

Ciutat Vella

Latitude
41.38198° or 41° 22′ 55″ north
Longitude
2.18042° or 2° 10′ 50″ east
Population
102,000
Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)
Open location code
8FH495JJ+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10925234224
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6544106
Wiki­data ID
Q941385
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Ciutat Vella” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ثيوتات فيا”
  • Armenian: “Հին քաղաք”
  • Basque: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Catalan: “Barri Vell”
  • Catalan: “Casc antic de Barcelona”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat Vella de Barcelona”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Catalan: “Districte 1”
  • Catalan: “Districte de Ciutat Vella”
  • Catalan: “Districte I”
  • Cebuano: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Chinese: “旧城区”
  • Chinese: “舊城區”
  • Danish: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Dutch: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Esperanto: “Malnova Urbo de Barcelono”
  • Finnish: “Ciutat Vella”
  • French: “Ciutat Vella”
  • French: “Vieille ville de Barcelone”
  • French: “Vieille-ville de Barcelone”
  • Galician: “Ciutat Vella de Barcelona”
  • Georgian: “სიუტატ-ველა”
  • German: “Altstadt”
  • German: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Hebrew: “סיוטט וליה”
  • Irish: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Italian: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Japanese: “シウタ・ベリャ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Distrikt Ciutat Vella”
  • Malagasy: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ciutadella”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Norwegian: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat Vella”
  • Persian: “سویتاد بیا”
  • Polish: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Portuguese: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Portuguese: “Distrito de Ciutat Vella”
  • Quechua: “Ciutat Vella de Barcelona”
  • Romanian: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Russian: “Старый город Барселона”
  • Russian: “Старый город Каталония”
  • Russian: “Старый город”
  • Russian: “Старый Город”
  • Sardinian: “Distretu de Ciutat Vella (Bartzellona)”
  • Sardinian: “Distretu de Ciutat Vella”
  • Slovenian: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Spanish: “Ciutat Vella de Barcelona”
  • Spanish: “Distrito 1”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Ciudad Vieja”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Ciutat Vella”
  • Swedish: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Turkish: “Ciutat Vella”
  • Ukrainian: “Старе місто Барселони”
  • Western Armenian: “Հին քաղաք”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ciutat Vella”. Photo: jlascar, CC BY 2.0.