L’Eixample de Barcelona II: the neighborhoods of the Sagrada Familia and Fort Pienc

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DATE: February 5 at 5 pm

The current neighborhood of Sagrada Familia, former neighborhood of Poblet, was a group of houses that, until 1897, was part of the municipality of Sant Martí de Provençals. Small houses of first floor and first floor for workers and workers of the neighboring Eixample Dret, an area of wealthy classes. At the end of the 19th century, the construction of the Sagrada Familia church began, and from the 1920s onwards, most of the small houses were replaced by blocks of apartments and numerous stores were set up. As a testimony of this past, the numerous passages that still remain in the neighborhood, the most populated of the district, stand out.

Fort Pienc owes its name to Fort Pius, a small fortified outpost of the Citadel that was demolished in 1868. Until the construction of the Estación del Norte, this was a practically uninhabited area and even today it is the least populated neighborhood in the Eixample district. Among its most notable elements are, in addition to the Estación del Norte (today a bus station) the old building of the Central Catalana de Electricitat, the Monumental bullring, the National Theater of Catalonia, the Auditorium, the Estació del Nord park, etc.

MAXIMUM 10 PEOPLE

GUIDE: TONI BELLIDO