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Barbican Arts Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the of the , England, and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions.
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  • Type: Arts center
  • Description: arts center in the City of London
  • Also known as: “Barbican Centre”, “The Barbican”, and “The Barbican Centre”
  • Address: Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Guildhall School of Music and Drama and St Paul’s Cathedral.

University
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The is a music and drama school located in the , . Established in 1880, the school offers undergraduate and postgraduate training in all aspects of classical music and jazz along with drama and production arts. is situated 360 feet east of Barbican Arts Centre.

Church
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St Paul's Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Paul the Apostle, is an Anglican cathedral in , the seat of the Bishop of London. is situated 2,500 feet southwest of Barbican Arts Centre.

Library
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The is one of the public lending libraries in the . The library has a large collection of books, spoken word recordings, DVDs, CDs and music scores available, most for loan, and some reference material for use on site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barbican Estate and Finsbury.

Quarter
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The , or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes and houses in central , England, within the .

Suburb
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is a district of North-, forming the southeastern part of the . It borders the . The Manor of is first recorded as Vinisbir and means "manor of a man called Finn".

Neighborhood
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The is a 1950s council housing complex in the . It was built on the northern edge of the City, on a site devastated by bombing during the Second World War.

Barbican Arts Centre

Latitude
51.51987° or 51° 31′ 12″ north
Longitude
-0.09384° or 0° 5′ 38″ west
Levels
5
Open location code
9C3XGW94+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 34038687
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­arts_centre
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q653858
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Barbican Arts Centre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Barbican Centre”
  • Arabic: “مركز باربيكان”
  • Catalan: “Barbican Centre”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناوەندی باربیکان”
  • Chinese: “巴比肯藝術中心”
  • Chinese: “巴比靳中心”
  • Czech: “Barbican Centre”
  • Danish: “Barbican Arts Centre”
  • Dutch: “Barbican Centre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مركز باربيكان”
  • Esperanto: “Barbican Center”
  • Esperanto: “Centro Barbican”
  • French: “Barbican Centre”
  • Galician: “Barbican Centre”
  • German: “Barbican Centre”
  • Greek: “Κέντρο Μπάρμπικαν”
  • Hausa: “Barbican Centre”
  • Hebrew: “מרכז האמנויות ברביקן”
  • Hungarian: “Barbican Centre (London)”
  • Hungarian: “Barbican Centre”
  • Indonesian: “Barbican Arts Centre”
  • Indonesian: “Barbican Centre”
  • Irish: “Barbican Centre”
  • Italian: “Barbican Centre”
  • Japanese: “バービカン・センター”
  • Korean: “바비칸 센터”
  • Latin: “Barbacana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barbican Arts Centre”
  • Norwegian: “Barbican Centre”
  • Persian: “مرکز باربیکان”
  • Polish: “Barbican Centre”
  • Portuguese: “Barbican Centre”
  • Romanian: “Barbican Centre”
  • Russian: “Барбикан-центр”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barbican Centre”
  • Slovak: “Barbican Centre”
  • Slovenian: “Barbican Centre”
  • Spanish: “Barbican Centre”
  • Swedish: “Barbican Centre”
  • Tagalog: “Barbican Centre”
  • Thai: “บาร์บิคันเซนเทอร์”
  • Turkish: “Barbican Centre”
  • Ukrainian: “Барбікан-центр”
  • Welsh: “Canolfan y Barbican”
  • “Barbican Centre”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Barbican Centre (Cinema) and Barbican Art Gallery.

Nearby Places

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