Ciutat Vella
Ciutat Vella | |
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La Barceloneta, Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera | |
Area | |
• Total | 4.37 km2 (1.69 sq mi) |
Population (2009) | |
• Total | 107,426 |
• Density | 25,000/km2 (64,000/sq mi) |
Website | bcn.cat/ciutatvella |
Ciutat Vella (Catalan pronunciation: [siwˈtad ˈbeʎə], meaning in English "Old City") is a district of Barcelona, numbered District 1. The name means "old city" in Catalan and refers to the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Ciutat Vella is nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and the neighborhood called l'Eixample ("the Extension").
There are four administrative neighborhoods (some of them include former or traditional neighborhoods):
- La Barceloneta
- El Gòtic
- El Raval
- Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera:
- Sant Pere
- Santa Caterina
- La Ribera
Les Rambles
Running down the center of the Ciutat Vella (dividing the
At the bottom, there is the Museu Marítim (naval museum), which chronicles the history of life on the Mediterranean, including a full-scale model of a galley. The museum is housed in the medieval Drassanes (shipyards), where the ships that made Catalonia a great sea power in the Mediterranean were built.[1]
Raval
This portion of the city is often referred to as el Barri Xinès, or
Barri Gòtic
On the other side of Les Rambles, is el Barri Gòtic. This neighborhood houses the
To the north of the Gothic Quarter lie the Jardins de Fonseré i Mestre which contain modernist buildings housing zoological and geological collections. The adjacent
La Ribera and El Born
La Barceloneta
See also
References
- ^ La Rambla Retrieved 2023-12-15.
- ^ El Raval Neighborhood Guide Retrieved 2023-12-15.
- ^ "Gothic Quarter". Visit Barcelona. BarcelonaTurisme. Retrieved 22 July 2017.