Atlas

Accessible list of neighbourhoods

1. el Raval — Ciutat Vella: West of La Rambla, the Raval is the former extramural suburb turned into one of Barcelona’s densest urban worlds: convents and hospitals, workshops and working-class housing, successive migrations, major cultural institutions and a continuing struggle over homes and public space.
2. el Barri Gòtic — Ciutat Vella: Barcelona’s Roman and medieval core, recomposed in the twentieth century as a monumental “Gothic Quarter”: beneath the old stone are Barcino, the Call, inhabited homes, streets erased by Via Laietana and a heritage image that is itself modern.
3. la Barceloneta — Ciutat Vella: A neighbourhood planned in 1753 by the military engineer Juan Martín Cermeño on sand won from the sea: a grid of 15 parallel streets and 9 cross streets, with low houses that the nineteenth century raised higher and divided into more flats.
4. Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera — Ciutat Vella: Three former neighbourhoods —la Ribera, Santa Caterina and Sant Pere— joined in one administrative neighbourhood inside the old wall, marked by the demolition of part of la Ribera to build the Citadel after 1714.
5. el Fort Pienc — Eixample: An Eixample neighbourhood that grew on a plain of roads and infrastructure outside the walls, bearing the name of a vanished fort and shaped by railway tracks and the Estació del Nord, today turned into a park, a concert hall and a theatre.
6. la Sagrada Família — Eixample: La Sagrada Família is the Eixample neighbourhood named after Gaudí's temple, raised over the fields and low houses of the old Poblet and still under construction in 2026.
7. la Dreta de l'Eixample — Eixample: La Dreta de l'Eixample is the central sector of Cerdà's Eixample, where Barcelona's bourgeoisie built modernista homes around Passeig de Gràcia, and it takes its name from lying to the right of the Sarrià railway that once ran down Carrer de Balmes.
8. l'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample — Eixample: L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample is the western part of the Eixample that was urbanised first, and today the Hospital Clínic, the historic building of the Universitat de Barcelona and the Mercat del Ninot can all be read in it.
9. la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample — Eixample: La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample is the newer part of the Esquerra de l'Eixample, where the grid absorbed a cotton mill, a prison, an abattoir and a bullring, and where an industrial school, a park and a shopping centre now stand.
10. Sant Antoni — Eixample: Sant Antoni grew around the iron market that Antoni Rovira i Trias opened in 1882 beside the old city wall, and its streets are now being rebuilt around it as a pedestrian superilla.
11. el Poble-sec — Sants-Montjuïc: El Poble-sec was built from 1858 on the north slope of Montjuïc, outside the Eixample plan, as three working-class districts — França Xica, Santa Madrona and Hortes de Sant Bertran — below the theatres of the Paral·lel.
12. la Marina del Prat Vermell — Sants-Montjuïc: La Marina del Prat Vermell takes its name from the fields where dyed cloth from the calico-printing factories was laid out to dry, and is now one of Barcelona's main housing-growth areas, with nearly 12,000 homes planned on former industrial land.
13. la Marina de Port — Sants-Montjuïc: La Marina de Port is not one workers' district beside the harbour but a mosaic of nuclei — the Port of the medieval castle, Can Clos, the Polvorí, SEAT's Sant Cristòfol — tied together by Passeig de la Zona Franca.
14. la Font de la Guatlla — Sants-Montjuïc: La Font de la Guatlla is a small neighbourhood at the foot of Montjuïc named after a spring that no longer runs, and around it stand a modernist factory, cooperative villas built by municipal workers and rental blocks on the Gran Via.
15. Hostafrancs — Sants-Montjuïc: Hostafrancs grew along Creu Coberta, the road into Barcelona, where about 1839 a carter from a village in the Segarra opened an inn that gave the neighbourhood its name; with the market, the tram and the factories it became a working-class and artisan district.
16. la Bordeta — Sants-Montjuïc: La Bordeta began as an inn beside the Riera Blanca and grew around Can Batlló, a cotton works open from 1880 and closed in the 1960s, whose Bloc 11 the neighbours now run themselves.
17. Sants - Badal — Sants-Montjuïc: Sants-Badal is the western end of old Sants: a very dense neighbourhood named after a rambla that the Badal brothers opened in 1885, beside the Riera Blanca, the border with l'Hospitalet.
18. Sants — Sants-Montjuïc: Sants, the core of the old municipality of Santa Maria de Sants, grew between the Carretera de Sants and two steam mills, the Vapor Vell and the Espanya Industrial, and is now rebuilding its railway station.
19. les Corts — les Corts: Les Corts was a village of farmhouses that broke away from Sarrià in 1836 and was merged into Barcelona in 1897; today it can be read in an 1884 town hall, an 18th-century farmhouse, the façade of a glassworks and a park laid out over a workers' colony.
20. la Maternitat i Sant Ramon — les Corts: La Maternitat i Sant Ramon is named after a provincial maternity and foundling home and a parish, and brings together the Maternitat pavilions, the Cementiri de les Corts and Spotify Camp Nou in one neighbourhood beside the l'Hospitalet border.
21. Pedralbes — les Corts: Pedralbes grew around a royal monastery founded in 1326 and in the twentieth century was planned as the Güell family's garden city, between the Collserola slopes and the Diagonal.
22. Vallvidrera, el Tibidabo i les Planes — Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: Vallvidrera, el Tibidabo i les Planes is one of Barcelona's largest neighbourhoods and one of its least dense: an old parish village on the Collserola ridge, a summit with an amusement park, a basilica and a telecommunications tower, and a railway suburb at les Planes.
23. Sarrià — Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: Sarrià was an independent municipality until 4 November 1921, and Carrer Major, Plaça de Sarrià, the church of Sant Vicenç, the former town hall and the market keep its old centre inside Barcelona.
24. les Tres Torres — Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: Les Tres Torres is named after three grand houses put up between 1901 and 1903 on the Nena Casas estate; today it can be read in a Gaudí school, a sculptor's house turned library, a market and the site of the Sarrià stadium.
25. Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova — Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova is the upper part of the old municipality of Sant Gervasi de Cassoles: a church on the site of a medieval chapel, Gaudí's Bellesguard, a former asylum turned science museum and villa gardens open to the public.
26. Sant Gervasi - Galvany — Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: Sant Gervasi - Galvany is the lower, denser part of the old Sant Gervasi de Cassoles, built over the Camp d'en Galvany from 1866 around a monumental brick-and-iron market, and known today for its shops and night life.
27. el Putxet i el Farró — Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: El Putxet i el Farró are two neighbourhoods under one name: above, a hill built up from 1870 with summer villas and a park with a lookout; below, passages of terraced houses, modernista villas and an astronomer's house, divided by Ronda del General Mitre.
28. Vallcarca i els Penitents — Gràcia: Vallcarca i els Penitents is one neighbourhood born of two old settlements: the Farigola valley beneath a concrete viaduct of 1923, and the hermits' hillside of els Penitents, where a transformation of housing, park and stormwater tank that stalled for years has begun to move.
29. el Coll — Gràcia: El Coll is a neighbourhood that grew in the shelter of a Romanesque sanctuary in a pass between hills, and that today can be read in a comics publisher turned civic centre, a Jujol estate with radium-bearing water and a park made in a quarry.
30. la Salut — Gràcia: La Salut is the neighbourhood that continues when the Park Güell postcard ends: a residential hillside of chapels, schools, houses, stairs and streets, named for a chapel of 1864, sharing its slope with a garden city that failed as housing and now receives millions of visitors a year.
31. la Vila de Gràcia — Gràcia: La Vila de Gràcia was an independent municipality from 1850 to 1897, and the bell tower of Plaça de la Vila, its squares and its markets still carry that memory.
32. el Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova — Gràcia: El Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova is the stretch of old Gràcia that lay between the village and Cerdà's Eixample, and its best-known building, La Sedeta, is a wool and silk mill that neighbours saved from housing in 1978 and that is now a primary school, a secondary school and a civic centre.
33. el Baix Guinardó — Horta-Guinardó: El Baix Guinardó is the lower slope of the Guinardó, where a nineteenth-century water reservoir, a cavalry barracks and the Cinturó de Ronda ring road each took a share of the land, and where two of those spaces are now parks: the Parc de les Aigües, opened in 1978 after years of neighbourhood campaigning, and the Jardins del Baix Guinardó, on part of the old barracks.
34. Can Baró — Horta-Guinardó: Can Baró grew from a farmhouse with a 1674 lintel on the south slope of the Turó de la Rovira, and its streets keep the layers that followed: the journalists' villas of 1918, the quarries that left hollows, and the shacks that lasted until 1990.
35. el Guinardó — Horta-Guinardó: El Guinardó takes its name from a farmhouse on a small hill, the Mas Guinardó, whose lands were laid out for housing from 1897 and, from the 1960s, filled with apartment blocks around a park begun in 1916.
36. la Font d'en Fargues — Horta-Guinardó: La Font d'en Fargues is a hillside neighbourhood named after a spring that the owners of Can Fargues fitted with a grotto and a kiosk, and laid out for villas from 1912; the farmhouse, built around an eleventh- or twelfth-century tower, is now a municipal music school.
37. el Carmel — Horta-Guinardó: El Carmel is a neighbourhood of hills that grew piece by piece: shacks and self-built houses on quarries and steep drops, stairs standing in for streets, and a residents' association (1972) that wrung services out of the authorities; in 2005 a metro collapse made it known across Catalonia.
38. la Teixonera — Horta-Guinardó: La Teixonera owes its name to a person, not to a badger: the shoe manufacturer Joaquim Taxonera i Cassà, who bought the land, obtained the urbanisation permit in 1902 and promoted a colony of small houses with gardens, built between 1915 and 1930.
39. Sant Genís dels Agudells — Horta-Guinardó: Sant Genís dels Agudells began as a rural parish at the foot of Collserola: its church was consecrated in 931, and beside it stand the rectory, the farmhouse of Can Safont and the last parish cemetery in Barcelona. From the second half of the twentieth century the valley around the old nucleus was urbanised well beyond what the terrain could easily bear.
40. Montbau — Horta-Guinardó: Montbau is a housing estate planned in 1957 by the Patronat Municipal de l'Habitatge on the slope of Collserola and built in phases from 1958 (the second from 1961); the second phase doubled the density first foreseen, and the white terraced houses were added at the top.
41. la Vall d'Hebron — Horta-Guinardó: La Vall d'Hebron is one of the four Olympic areas of 1992 on Barcelona's northern hills: a housing estate begun in 1968, widened for the Games with sports grounds, the Pavelló de la República and a giant box of matches.
42. la Clota — Horta-Guinardó: La Clota is one of the oldest settlements in the Horta-Guinardó district: a hollow of low houses, workshops and vegetable gardens, ringed by major roads and now about to receive a park, public housing and a health centre.
43. Horta — Horta-Guinardó: Horta was an independent municipality until 1904 and still has a centre of its own: a square that began as a market, a street of washerwomen's houses with wells and washhouses, a farmhouse turned into a library, and a market awaiting rebuilding.
44. Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta — Nou Barris: Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta joins a village name documented since the tenth century with the housing estate that grew from 1948 around a late-medieval manor, and its northern edge is Passeig de Fabra i Puig.
45. Porta — Nou Barris: Porta takes its name from Can Porta, a lost farmhouse, and in a century it went from fields around two farmhouses to Plaça de Sóller, the blocks of the 1960s and the large parks of the south.
46. el Turó de la Peira — Nou Barris: El Turó de la Peira grows around a pine-covered hill that became a public park in 1936 and was partly taken over by the blocks of the 1950s and 1960s; the collapse of a building on Carrer del Cadí in 1990 made it one of the Barcelona neighbourhoods most affected by aluminosis.
47. Can Peguera — Nou Barris: Can Peguera is, according to the City Council, the last living example of Barcelona's cases barates (“low-cost houses”): about 650 single-storey houses built between 1929 and 1932 to rehouse workers from the Montjuïc shacks, saved from the demolition planned since 1976 by a change of planning in 2015.
48. la Guineueta — Nou Barris: La Guineueta takes its name from a vanished farmhouse, Can Guineueta; it was built in the 1960s in two zones divided by Passeig de Valldaura, and residents won the Parc de la Guineueta in 1971, while the Parc Central de Nou Barris grew on the grounds of the old mental hospital.
49. Canyelles — Nou Barris: Canyelles is a housing estate of about 65 blocks and towers, inaugurated in 1978 in Nou Barris on the site of the shantytown of la Guineueta Vella; a neighbours' campaign won its former residents a new home there.
50. les Roquetes — Nou Barris: Les Roquetes is a hillside neighbourhood that its own residents helped to build: in the 1950s they put up houses on land with no services, in 1963 they paid for electricity in the streets, and in 1964 they dug the sewers themselves, on Sundays.
51. Verdun — Nou Barris: Verdun is a triangle of 23.7 hectares that grew from the Cases del Governador of 1952, put up in haste to rehouse shack-dwellers, and it is still arguing over its name: Verdun, for a First World War battle, or Verdum, for a bird.
52. la Prosperitat — Nou Barris: La Prosperitat is a dense neighbourhood of 59 hectares that grew from 1957 with migration, apartment blocks and few facilities, and won what it lacked square by square: the first square in 1976, plaça d'Àngel Pestaña in 1986, the Casal de Barri in 1988.
53. la Trinitat Nova — Nou Barris: La Trinitat Nova began in the 1950s as a public-housing estate on farmland at the edge of Barcelona, and since 2001 its blocks affected by aluminosis have been replaced in phases.
54. Torre Baró — Nou Barris: Torre Baró is a hillside neighbourhood of Nou Barris named after a vanished tower, born of a failed garden-city scheme and grown from the 1940s by self-building, until a neighbours' action brought the 47 bus up to it in 1978.
55. Ciutat Meridiana — Nou Barris: Ciutat Meridiana is a neighbourhood of blocks raised from 1963 in a steep valley of Nou Barris, where residents have had to press for clinics, schools, a market and even escalators to cope with its level changes.
56. Vallbona — Nou Barris: Vallbona is the productive edge Barcelona still retains: running water in the Rec Comtal, cultivated ground, farmhouses, metropolitan infrastructure and a small neighbourhood that has survived between development plans, isolation and real agricultural work.
57. la Trinitat Vella — Sant Andreu: La Trinitat Vella is a working-class neighbourhood born in the 1950s among vineyards, a prison and new roads: Montcada's water, the Nus de la Trinitat and the Meridiana have all passed around it without ever ceasing to be its neighbours.
58. Baró de Viver — Sant Andreu: Baró de Viver is a tiny neighbourhood beside the Besòs: its first houses, the Cases Barates of 1929, were replaced by blocks, and residents wrote what memory remained onto a 478 m2 mural.
59. el Bon Pastor — Sant Andreu: El Bon Pastor grew around 784 single-storey cases barates built in 1929 beside the Besòs; a remodelling begun in 2002 has been replacing them with apartment blocks, and a block of sixteen houses is now a museum.
60. Sant Andreu — Sant Andreu: Sant Andreu de Palomar was a town with its own municipality until its annexation to Barcelona on 20 April 1897, and it keeps that shape: Carrer Gran, Plaça d'Orfila, the market, Casa Bloc and the Fabra i Coats textile compound, where a museum of work opened in May 2026.
61. la Sagrera — Sant Andreu: La Sagrera grew from a protected precinct round a parish church into an industrial neighbourhood, and now lies beside a high-speed station that trains already run through but that is not yet open to passengers.
62. el Congrés i els Indians — Sant Andreu: El Congrés i els Indians joins a housing estate born of the 1952 Eucharistic Congress and the Indians quarter, where some emigrants returned from the Americas settled; its most singular building is the Canòdrom.
63. Navas — Sant Andreu: Navas is the newest neighbourhood of the Sant Andreu district: it became official in 2006 on both sides of the Meridiana, on old land of el Clot and la Sagrera, and it is now debating whether to keep the name Navas or become Torrent de la Guineu.
64. el Camp de l'Arpa del Clot — Sant Martí: El Camp de l'Arpa del Clot began to be built up after 1845 without following the Cerdà plan: that is why 19th-century passages, converted old factories and Eixample streets that stop dead at Carrer de Rogent survive here.
65. el Clot — Sant Martí: El Clot is an old nucleus of Sant Martí de Provençals, documented in 1208 as the Clot de la Mel, that can still be read today in Carrer del Clot, an 1889 market, a flour mill turned cultural centre and a park built on railway workshops.
66. el Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou — Sant Martí: A former factory district of Poblenou where a brick textile mill, a design museum and a tower some 142 metres tall line up on one short walk, on land the 22@ plan has remade.
67. la Vila Olímpica del Poblenou — Sant Martí: The Olympic Village looks as though it appeared whole in 1992, but it stands on Icària, a small industrial quarter of about forty companies and 504 residents that bulldozers began to clear on 3 August 1987.
68. el Poblenou — Sant Martí: Poblenou grew in the nineteenth century into Barcelona’s industrial district, the “Catalan Manchester”; since 2000 the 22@ plan has been transforming its factory land, and the Rambla, Can Felipa and the cemetery still stand among the changes.
69. Diagonal Mar i el Front Marítim del Poblenou — Sant Martí: A neighbourhood of two ages: houses from the late 1960s on former fields and, since the early 2000s, a park by Miralles and Tagliabue, a convention centre and residential towers by the sea.
70. el Besòs i el Maresme — Sant Martí: A neighbourhood of housing blocks from the 1950s and 1960s on Barcelona's north-eastern edge, beside the Fòrum, where in May 2026 a EUR 415 million, ten-year plan was agreed to repair up to 4,000 homes.
71. Provençals del Poblenou — Sant Martí: Provençals del Poblenou is a neighbourhood drawn in 2006 along the old industrial axis of Carrer de Pere IV, where a printing works of 1853, a machinery workshop and a park by Jean Nouvel now stand close together, in the part of the neighbourhood that belongs to the 22@ sector.
72. Sant Martí de Provençals — Sant Martí: Sant Martí de Provençals is the neighbourhood that keeps the old parish centre of the municipality that once covered much of eastern Barcelona: a church on a small square, farmhouses and former fields now inside a park, all surrounded by dense housing.
73. la Verneda i la Pau — Sant Martí: La Verneda i la Pau is a neighbourhood of layers: farmland and farmhouses until the 1950s, then housing for incoming migrants, the La Pau estate inaugurated in 1966, and a square won for the city at the start of municipal democracy.