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Ildefons Cerdà Sunyer [1] (Catalan pronunciation: [ildəˈfons səɾˈða i suˈɲe]; Spanish: Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer; 23 December 1815, Centelles (Catalonia) – 21 August 1876, Caldas de Besaya (Cantabria)) was a Spanish urban planner and civil engineer who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the Eixample.
Roman archaeological remains, Museum of the History of Barcelona There is scarce vestiges of prehistoric period to the city. If well it is ascertained the human presence in the paleolithic, the first rests regarding the architecture proceed of the neolíthic, period in which the human being went back sedentary and happened of a subsistència based in the hunting and the recol·lecció to an ...
Barcelona's suburbs, such as L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Bellvitge, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Sant Adrià de Besòs, and Badalona, also saw a dramatic population increase over a single decade. [149] The city now had an extremely dense population (1,557,863 inhabitants, 15,517 per km 2, in 1970), often housed in very poor quality accommodations ...
The projects submitted to the Barcelona City Council competition to design an expansion for the city focused, in most cases, its solution in the "road from Barcelona to Gracia" that for some time was being consolidated urbanistically as Passeig de Gracia and that conditioned the possible solutions. These plans, unlike the one proposed by Cerdá ...
According to Barcelona's City Council, the city's population as of 1 January 2016 was 1,608,746 people, [86] on a land area of 101.4 km 2 (39 sq mi). It is the main component of an administrative area of Greater Barcelona , with a population of 3,218,071 in an area of 636 km 2 (246 sq mi) (density 5,060 inhabitants/km 2 ).
Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Josep Puig i Cadafalch (Catalan: [ʒuˈzɛp ˈputʃ i kəðəˈfalk]; 17 October 1867 in Mataró – 21 December 1956 in Barcelona) was a Catalan Modernista architect who designed many significant buildings in Barcelona, and a politician who had a significant role in the development of Catalan institutions.
The Design Museum of Barcelona (general tickets €6/£4.98, closed on Mondays) is a perfect place to gain a keener insight into the city’s globally recognised style across fashion, interior ...
Barcelona aerial view (2004). Barcelona, capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, is located in the Spanish Levant, on the Mediterranean coast. Its geographical location is between 41°16' and 41°30' north latitude and between 1°54' and 2°18' east longitude. [2]