[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n
Les Corts. A neighborhood of Barcelona that maybe you only know because this is where the Catalan football temple is located: the Camp Nou<\/strong>. This is no small thing, really, because on a game day more than 99,000 souls will attend the Camp Nou without counting the millions who follow it on television.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Imagen” src=”https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/camp-nou.jpg” alt=”the neighborhood of Les Corts” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Let’s define what which area we mean when we speak of the neighborhood of Les Corts. Formerly it was a village made up of small farms at the foot of the mountains of Collserola. This rural town experienced a rapid and radical change during the nineteenth century, like other areas in Barcelona.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n There are three areas in the neighborhood of Les Corts:\u00a0Les Corts<\/strong>, La Maternitat – San Ramon<\/strong> and Pedralbes<\/strong>. Today I talk about the first two and leave Pedralbes for another tiny Barcelonas special. Let us begin!<\/p>\n It is not easy to describe the personality and set the limits of this neighborhood. Many locals know that. That’s because until 1812, in order to be a town, at least one thousand inhabitants were required and Les Corts did not reach that number.<\/p>\n A unique city council was set with Sarri\u00e1. At the same time, the lands are located under the road known as Travessera de les Corts bacame a part of the Sants area. In 1822, during the Constitutional Triennium, Les Corts obtained a City Council but it was “absorbed” by the city of Barcelona in 1897.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n The areas that form the neighborhood of Les Corts are like a little puzzle. One is Camp de la Creu<\/strong> which takes its name from the ancient stone cross Mag\u00f2ria<\/strong>, a territorial signaling coming from the Middle Ages. The borders of Camp de la Creu are three broad avenues: Avenida Sarri\u00e1<\/strong>, Avenida Diagonal<\/strong> and Avenida Josep Tarradellas<\/strong>. Three key squares<\/strong> set Noves Les Corts area located above Travessera de les Corts: Can Ros\u00e9s, de la Conc\u00f2rdia and Comas<\/strong>. Here is were the most representative buildings ara located: the City Council, the Esgl\u00e9sia del Remei, the Library of Can Ros\u00e9s and the Can Deu Civic Centre.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Sanchez||||” text_font_size=”20″ use_border_color=”on” border_color=”#000000″ border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”10px|10px|10px|10px”]<\/p>\n So now you see, this small Barcelona is quite extensive so today, in Barcelonina, we will unveil only a part of its charms.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Imagen” src=”https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/l-illa-diagonal-1-1449734494.jpg” alt=”el Barrio de Les Corts” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n These radical changes, of which we spoke at first, are a part of the DNA of the neighborhood of Les Corts in which the architectural contrasts<\/strong> are more evident than in other neighborhoods of the city.<\/p>\n On one side we find small country houses and on the other bourgeois homes and today, tall modern buildings<\/strong>, almost all aligned with the Avenida Diagonal, notable examples of contemporary architecture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Some examples of the oldest building are located around the emblematic Plaza de La Concordia. <\/strong><\/p>\n One of the most charming spots in the neighborhood of Les Corts. With its church, kiosk, bar terraces, its lampposts and its old pharmacy … There, a palace of the late nineteenth housing the Civic Center Can Deu<\/strong> rises. A modernist house, a garden, a belvedere, a fountain, some palm trees and an enclosed terrace with beautiful stained glass where the cafeteria is located. Its low prices atracts a clientele of retirees, students, mothers with their children, neighborhood endearing characters and lots of tranquility<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A quietness that is not incompatible with a great cultural activity<\/strong> in their showrooms.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” text_font=”Sanchez||||” text_font_size=”18″ use_border_color=”on” border_color=”#000000″ border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”10px|10px|10px|10px”]<\/p>\n The actual remains of the old neighborhood streets are few but they manage to convey the feeling of small town with one-storey houses at most two floors, local shops, bakeries and very old bars…<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Imagen” src=”https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/can-deu-.jpg” alt=”el Barrio de Les Corts” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image admin_label=”Imagen” src=”https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/CAN-DEU-SNACK-BAR-IN-BARCELONA.jpg” alt=”el Barrio de Les Corts” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Imagen” src=”https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/colonia-castells.jpg” alt=”El Barrio de Les Corts” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image admin_label=”Imagen” src=”https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/colonia-castells-carrer.png” alt=”el Barrio de Les Corts” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Les Corts has a personality and whole areas of low houses coexisted with new office buildings. This is the case of the aforementioned Colonia Castells a true “island”<\/strong> that for years was like stopped at the time of its construction in 1923.<\/p>\n His neighbors were a community of workers, many libertarians and fighters, who lost at least two battles: the Civil War and their fight against the vertical urbanism. They were one-storey houses, with chairs at the door, roof and a small garden with trees and even chickens. The group of squatters called Let’s save the colony that wanted to revive the neighborhood was dissolved in 2012.<\/p>\n At the end bulldozers were present but the case Castells is still open and some buildings are still standing.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n Nothing suggests that few meters up, near the Diagonal, we find the glass towers of several banks, the headquarters of large publishing groups and communication (Planeta<\/strong>), luxury hotels (Hilton and Juan Carlos I<\/strong>), hospitals and shopping centers (such as L’Illa Diagonal<\/strong> building with a new concept of vertical skyscrapers, houses shops, offices, restaurants, parks and clubs like the legendary Sala Bikini<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n At one end of the neighborhood is the beautiful building of the Old Maternity<\/strong> (since beginning of the decade of the 90 it houses the IOC headquarters) with a beautiful garden that only loses its tranquility during the football games.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Imagen” src=”https:\/\/www.barcelonina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/La_Maternitat_P1380149.jpg” alt=”el barrio de Les Corts” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Fila”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Texto” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\nLet’s build the\u00a0puzzle<\/h2>\n
\nNear the street Jim\u00e9nez and Iglesias and Paseo Manuel Girona, and taking the name of a historic farmhouse, we find Can Batllori<\/strong> area, important for its Iberian and Roman remains. Before the building was demolished grain silos, fragments baths and a necropolis were found.
\nThe Camp Vell<\/strong>, between Joan G\u00fcell street, Numancia Street, Travessera and Avenida Madrid, sets the limit with the area of Sants-Montju\u00efc. It is formed by Can Novell, the Pla\u00e7a del Centre and Can Sol de Baix. It is the area most recently development thanks to the fact of being close to the Sants Railstation.<\/p>\nAn area of contrasts<\/h2>\n
The Colonia Castells and the neighborhood’s memory<\/h2>\n
The neighborhood of les Corts today<\/h2>\n