Avinguda Meridiana

41°25′18.99″N 2°11′12.65″E / 41.4219417°N 2.1868472°E / 41.4219417; 2.1868472

Architecturally, the area is blunt and lacking in aesthetic pretension, but includes a few significant apartment blocks such as the Meridiana tower blocks by Oriol Bohigas, Josep Maria Martorell and David Mackay. Avinguda Meridiana symbolizes instrumental urbanism, being little more than an urban motorway, and very different from Barcelona's main avenues and boulevards.^[1]

On 19 June 1987, the

• Torras i Bages (L1)
• Fabra i Puig (L1)
• Sagrera-Meridiana (L1, L5, L9, L10
  )
• Navas (L1)
• Clot (L1, L2)
• T5
  )
• Marina (L1
  )

• Sant Andreu Arenal, interconnected with Fabra i Puig metro station. (R3, R4), Rodalies Barcelona line R7, Ca1, Ca2, Ca3, Ca4, Ca6, R42
  )
• Clot-Aragó, interconnected with Clot metro station, (R1, R2, Ca1, Ca2, Ca3, Ca4, Ca6, R42
  )

• Avinguda del Paral·lel
• 1987 Hipercor bombing

• Street names in Barcelona
• Urban planning of Barcelona

References

External links

• Article about the origin of Avinguda del Paral·lel and Avinguda Meridiana
• Online El Pais article about a 2007 protest held in Avinguda Meridiana
• History of El Clot, a neighbourhood sectioned by Avinguda Meridiana