Eixample
The Eixample is the quarter designed during the middle of the 19th century by Ildefons Cerdà, expanding the medieval city of Barcelona into space left empty for defence outside the city walls.
- Type: Suburb with 269,000 residents
- Description: district of Barcelona, Spain
- Also known as: “Barri de l’Eixample”, “barrio del Ensanche”, “district de l’Eixample”, “Districte 2”, “Districte II”, “distrito 2”, “Distrito de Eixample”, “distrito del Eixample”, “Distrito Eixample”, “Eixample barceloní”, “Eixample Cerdà”, “ensanche de Barcelona”, “L’Eixample”, and “Ешямпле”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Palau de la Música Catalana and Plaça de Catalunya.
Palau de la Música Catalana
Theater building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gràcia and Ciutat Vella.
Ciutat Vella
Ciutat Vella is, as its name suggests, the oldest part of Barcelona.
Eixample
- Categories: district of Barcelona, ensanche, and locality
- Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.39369° or 41° 23′ 37″ north
Longitude
2.16366° or 2° 9′ 49″ east
Population
269,000
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
Open location code
8FH495V7+FF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Eixample” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Էշամպլե”
- Basque: “Eixample”
- Belarusian: “Эшампле”
- Catalan: “Eixample de Barcelona”
- Catalan: “Eixample”
- Catalan: “l’Eixample”
- Cebuano: “Eixample”
- Chinese: “扩展区”
- Dutch: “Eixample”
- Esperanto: “Eixample”
- Finnish: “Eixample”
- French: “Eixample”
- Galician: “Eixample de Barcelona”
- Georgian: “ეშამპლე”
- German: “Eixample”
- Greek: “Eixample”
- Greek: “Εσάμπλε”
- Hebrew: “אישמפלה”
- Irish: “Eixample”
- Italian: “Eixample”
- Japanese: “アシャンプラ”
- Luxembourgish: “Distrikt Ensanche”
- Malagasy: “Eixample”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eixample”
- Norwegian: “Eixample”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de l’Eixample”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de lEixample”
- Persian: “اشامپله”
- Polish: “Eixample”
- Portuguese: “Eixample”
- Quechua: “Eixample distritu”
- Romanian: “Eixample”
- Russian: “Эшампле”
- Slovenian: “Eixample”
- Spanish: “Distrito del Ensanche”
- Spanish: “Ensanche”
- Swedish: “Eixample”
- Turkish: “Eixample”
- Ukrainian: “Ашямпла”
- Urdu: “ایکسامپل”
- Western Armenian: “Աշամպլա”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Dreta de l’Eixample and L’Antiga Esquerra de l’Eixample.
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