{"id":2305,"date":"2015-09-05T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T14:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barcelonina.com\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2018-03-16T20:58:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T19:58:53","slug":"the-22-the-coolest-district-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/blog\/the-22-the-coolest-district-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"The 22@: the coolest district in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is called the 22@ and this is defined as the innovation district<\/strong>. Is this really a cultural and technological pole? The area has been under big changes but there is a lot to do and, more important, a lot to show to people. Today, we introduce you the coolest district in Barcelona.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The project started to transform more than 400 acres of an industrial zone into one of the most modern districts of the city. 22@ is still on transformation and it wants to be an exemplary project of an urban renovation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This project has been (with its defenders and detractors) one of the most ambitions projects of public investment in Europe. 180 millions of euros have already been invested.<\/p>\n

\"22@<\/a>One of the main attractions of the area is the coexistence of new and old elements<\/strong>. More than 100 historical elements have been updated since the beginning of the project in 2001. Historical sites like Glorias Square<\/strong> or the Poblenou Rambla<\/strong> are now a part of a new landscape and still preserve their essence.<\/p>\n

1992 was a premonitory year when the Vila Olimpica<\/strong> was built for the athletes. Another international event has been the Forum of the Cultures in 2004<\/strong> which helped to organize the waterfront. Big constructions like the Auditori<\/strong> and the TNC<\/strong> attracted a part of the cultural life of the city towards the 22@.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, private initiatives such as the Poblenou Urban District<\/strong> <\/a>association are working hard to make people discover<\/strong> this thrilling area. This association is composed by small and charming shops<\/strong>, creative little businesses<\/strong> like Palo Alto<\/strong>, cultural institutions<\/strong> like Can Framis<\/strong>: a wonderful museum of modern art belonging to the Fundaci\u00f3 Vila Casas. <\/strong>We find the cultural industry under different shapes in this old streets: art galleries<\/strong>, artists workshops<\/strong>, editions companies<\/strong>, designers showrooms<\/strong>, design schools<\/strong> and more seem to fit in this area half cybernetic half bohemian.<\/p>\n

Green areas are not its main attraction. However, some of them have found their spot among all the modernity. We can \"Torre<\/a>walk on green and breath some oxygen in the Poblenou Central Park<\/strong>, the Diagonal Mar Park<\/strong> and the Forum Park<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This area is the home of one of the most famous modern buildings: the Agbar<\/strong> tower designed by Jean Nouvel<\/strong>, today owned by Hyatt. There are more singulars buildings like the Interface building <\/strong>which has preserved the same front built 1955.<\/p>\n

Will this area to become the administrative<\/strong> and economical<\/strong> center of the city? Are we in an area like the Defense<\/strong> in Paris? Is this a new City<\/strong> like the one in London? The business world, the culture and the technology have now an area in the 22@ but more important, the citizens<\/strong> have the last words about the future of this area with a long history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is called the 22@ and this is defined as the innovation district. Is this really a cultural and technological pole? The area has been under big changes but there is a lot to do and, more important, a lot to show to people. Today, we introduce you the coolest district in Barcelona. The project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[619,8037],"tags":[389,390,391],"yst_prominent_words":[2407,8268,2052,925,5441,7386,8265,5702,8266,5354,1831,1835,7387,5379,4248,8253,8267],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighborhoods","category-to-visit","tag-22-in-barcelona","tag-modern-architecture-in-barcelona","tag-poble-nou-area-in-barcelona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}