Plaça de la Universitat

The Plaça de la Universitat is one of 's central squares, at the border between the districts of and . It is located at the intersection of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Carrer d'Aribau and Ronda de Sant Antoni.
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  • Type: Pedestrian zone
  • Description: square in Barcelona, Spain
  • Also known as: “Plaça de la Universitat, Barcelona”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Universitat and Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.

Metro station
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is a Barcelona Metro station named after Plaça de la , split between and districts of , where the station is located in.

Museum
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The is a contemporary art museum situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in neighborhood, district, in , , Spain. is situated 370 metres southeast of Plaça de la Universitat.

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. is situated 1 km east of Plaça de la Universitat.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include The Raval and Sant Antoni.

Quarter
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El Raval is a neighborhood in the 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.

Quarter
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L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample is a neighborhood in the district of , . Originally formed a single unit, called Esquerra de l'Eixample, with the current neighborhood .

Plaça de la Universitat

Latitude
41.38566° or 41° 23′ 8″ north
Longitude
2.16395° or 2° 9′ 50″ east
Named after
University of Barcelona
Open location code
8FH495P7+7H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 20474085
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­pedestrian
Wiki­data ID
Q2594019
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Turkish—“Plaça de la Universitat” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Unibertsitatearen plaza (Bartzelona)”
  • Basque: “Unibertsitatearen plaza”
  • Catalan: “plaça de la Universitat”
  • Catalan: “Plaça de la Universitat”
  • Catalan: “Plaça Universitat”
  • Chinese: “大学广场”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان الجامعه”
  • French: “Plaça de la Universitat”
  • French: “place de l’Université”
  • French: “Place de l’Université”
  • Galician: “Plaça de la Universitat”
  • Italian: “Plaça de la Universitat”
  • Japanese: “プラサ・デ・ラ・ウニベルシタット”
  • Japanese: “大学広場”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de la Universidad”
  • Spanish: “Plaza Universidad”
  • Swedish: “Plaça de la Universitat”
  • Turkish: “Plaça de la Universitat”
  • Turkish: “Universitat Meydanı”

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