Gràcia
Gràcia is a district of Barcelona 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.Photo: jaumemeneses, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Suburb with 122,000 residents
- Description: district of Barcelona, Spain
- Also known as: “Gracia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Park Güell and Casa Vicens.
Park Güell
Park
Casa Vicens
Photo: Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Casa Vicens is a modernist building situated in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona. It is the work of architect Antoni Gaudí and is considered to be his first major project.
Plaça de Lesseps
Square
Photo: Ssola, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Plaça de Lesseps is a square serving as the border between the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi and Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, loosely divided in two parts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inland Suburbs and Eixample.
Inland Suburbs
Photo: Pure-football, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Inland Suburbs are the districts that ring the main part of Barcelona. 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
Photo: Armigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Vila de Gràcia
Quarter
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Vila de Gràcia, which translates as town of Gràcia or Gràcia, is a neighborhood in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia. This neighborhood was the main core of the old town of Gràcia that included also Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova.
Gràcia
- Categories: district of Barcelona and locality
- Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.40658° or 41° 24′ 24″ northLongitude
2.15828° or 2° 9′ 30″ eastPopulation
122,000Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)Open location code
8FH4C545+J8OpenStreetMap ID
node 10921904365OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
3121245Wikidata ID
Q852697
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Armenian—“Gràcia” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gracia”
- Basque: “Gràcia”
- Catalan: “Districte 6”
- Catalan: “Districte de Gràcia”
- Catalan: “Districte VI”
- Catalan: “Gràcia”
- Catalan: “Vila de Gràcia”
- Cebuano: “Gràcia”
- Chinese: “恩典区”
- Chinese: “恩典區”
- Dutch: “Gracia”
- Dutch: “Gràcia”
- Esperanto: “Gràcia”
- Finnish: “Gràcia”
- French: “District de Gràcia”
- French: “Districte de Gràcia”
- Galician: “Gràcia”
- Georgian: “გრასია”
- German: “Barcelona/Gràcia”
- German: “Gràcia”
- Hebrew: “ברצלונה/גרסיה”
- Hebrew: “גרסיה”
- Hungarian: “Gràcia”
- Irish: “Gràcia”
- Italian: “Gràcia”
- Japanese: “グラシア (バルセロナ)”
- Japanese: “グラシア区”
- Luxembourgish: “Distrikt Gràcia”
- Malagasy: “Gràcia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gràcia”
- Norwegian: “Gràcia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de Gràcia”
- Persian: “گراسیا”
- Polish: “Gràcia”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Gracia”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Gràcia”
- Portuguese: “Gràcia”
- Quechua: “Gràcia distritu”
- Romanian: “Gracia”
- Romanian: “Gràcia”
- Russian: “Грасия”
- Spanish: “Barrio de Gracia”
- Spanish: “Barrio de Gràcia”
- Spanish: “Distrito 6”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Gracia”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Gràcia”
- Spanish: “Gracia”
- Spanish: “Gràcia”
- Swedish: “Gràcia”
- Turkish: “Gracia”
- Western Armenian: “Կրասիա”
- “Districte de Gràcia”
- “Gràcia”
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