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Gran Via de Carlos III

Download date: 17/10/2024

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This rambla packed with curious sculptural features and unusual lampposts became possible when the inner ring road, Rda del Mig, was covered over.

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Rambla de la Gran Via de Carles III corresponds to the area reclaimed for pedestrians which connects Pedralbes and Les Corts to Sants and l’Hospitalet. The first urban-development plan for this fast-travel ring road goes back to a plan by the French architect Léon Jaussely (1907). The part running through Les Corts was finally marked out in 1917. It was opened towards the end of the 1920s ,for the 1929 International Exposition, since when, it became a fast road that separated the social centres on either side. Covering it helped to connect the people and the neighbourhoods. This new distribution encouraged the development of a whole series of urban structures that give this new avenue its own personality. Its street lights, which are unique in the entire city, are the most obvious. Several sculptures were put up in the area, many of them fountains.

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Location and contact

Gran Via de Carlos III

Address:
G.V. Carles III, 60
Districte:
Les Corts
Neighborhood:
les Corts
City:
Barcelona

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