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The nearest Barcelona Metro stations are: [3] Catalunya , immediately adjacent to Plaça Catalunya , is a major interchange station served by several metro and suburban railway lines. Diagonal , near the intersection with Avinguda Diagonal , is another major interchange, with the platforms on various lines linked by long underground passageways.
At the southern end of the Rambla is the Christopher Columbus Monument and the Port Vell, the old port of Barcelona, now largely given over to pleasure craft. Near to the port end of the Rambla are the Royal Dockyards (Catalan: Drassanes), which house a maritime museum specifically devoted to naval history in the Mediterranean. [2]
Barcelona is situated within the following regions: Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere. Europe Southern Europe; Iberian Peninsula. Spain Catalonia Province of Barcelona. Barcelona metropolitan area; Time zone(s): Central European Time In Summer: Central European Summer Time
Barcelona won the 1999 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for its architecture, [173] the first (and as of 2015, only) time that the winner has been a city rather than an individual architect. Barcelona is the home of many points of interest declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO: [174]
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Spain, like other parts of the world, used local mean time until 31 December 1900. [2] In San Sebastián on 22 July 1900, the president of the Consejo de Ministros, Francisco Silvela, proposed to the regent of Spain, María Cristina, a royal decree to standardise the time in Spain; thus setting Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±00:00) as the standard time in peninsular Spain, the Balearic Islands and ...