Eixample

The Eixample is the quarter designed during the middle of the 19th century by Ildefons Cerdà, expanding the medieval city of into space left empty for defence outside the city walls.
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  • Type: Suburb with 269,000 residents
  • Description: district of Barcelona, Spain
  • Also known as: “Distrito Eixample”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palau de la Música Catalana and Plaça de Catalunya.

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 a large square in central that is generally considered to be both its and the place where the old city and the 19th century-built Eixample meet.

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The is a building designed by noted modernisme architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, located at 35 in the Eixample district of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gràcia and Ciutat Vella.

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is a district of and is the most distinctively Catalan neighbourhood within easy walking distance of the city centre. It was an independent town before it joined the city in the 20th century.

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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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The are the districts that ring the main part of . To the southwest, it includes Les Corts and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, and to the northwest it includes Horta-Guinardo, Nou Barris and Sant Andreau.

Eixample

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
node 1711549185
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6544100
Wiki­data ID
Q64124
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Western Armenian—“Eixample” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Էշամպլե”
  • Basque: “Eixample”
  • Belarusian: “Эшампле”
  • Catalan: “Barri de l’Eixample”
  • Catalan: “Districte 2”
  • Catalan: “Districte de l’Eixample”
  • Catalan: “Districte II”
  • Catalan: “Eixample barceloní”
  • Catalan: “Eixample Cerdà”
  • Catalan: “Eixample de Barcelona”
  • Catalan: “Eixample”
  • Catalan: “l’Eixample”
  • Cebuano: “Eixample”
  • Chinese: “扩展区”
  • Dutch: “Eixample”
  • Esperanto: “Eixample”
  • Finnish: “Eixample”
  • French: “district de l’Eixample”
  • French: “Eixample”
  • Galician: “Eixample de Barcelona”
  • Georgian: “ეშამპლე”
  • German: “Eixample”
  • German: “Ensanche”
  • Greek: “Eixample”
  • Greek: “Εσάμπλε”
  • Hebrew: “אישמפלה”
  • Irish: “Eixample”
  • Italian: “Eixample”
  • Italian: “Ensanche”
  • Japanese: “アシャンプラ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Distrikt Ensanche”
  • Luxembourgish: “Eixample”
  • Malagasy: “Eixample”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eixample”
  • Norwegian: “Eixample”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de l’Eixample”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de lEixample”
  • Persian: “اشامپله”
  • Polish: “Eixample”
  • Polish: “Ensanche”
  • Portuguese: “Distrito de Eixample”
  • Portuguese: “Eixample”
  • Quechua: “Eixample distritu”
  • Romanian: “Eixample”
  • Russian: “Эшампле”
  • Slovenian: “Eixample”
  • Spanish: “barrio del Ensanche”
  • Spanish: “distrito 2”
  • Spanish: “distrito del Eixample”
  • Spanish: “Distrito del Ensanche”
  • Spanish: “Eixample de Barcelona”
  • Spanish: “Eixample”
  • Spanish: “ensanche de Barcelona”
  • Spanish: “Ensanche”
  • Spanish: “L’Eixample”
  • Swedish: “Eixample”
  • Swedish: “L’Eixample”
  • Turkish: “Eixample”
  • Ukrainian: “Ашямпла”
  • Ukrainian: “Ешямпле”
  • Urdu: “ایکسامپل”
  • Western Armenian: “Աշամպլա”

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