The 10 districts
Ciutat Vella
Barcelona's historic core: four dense neighbourhoods between walls, port and intense tourism.
4 barris · pop. 115,829
Eixample
Cerdà's Eixample: the chamfered grid that turned the plain into a dense bourgeois city.
6 barris · pop. 277,353
Sants-Montjuïc
Sants-Montjuïc: industrial Sants town, Paral·lel, Montjuïc mountain and the southern port plain.
8 barris · pop. 196,040
Les Corts
Les Corts: former farm municipality turned campus, offices and Camp Nou gravity.
3 barris · pop. 83,773
Sarrià-Sant Gervasi
Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: hill towns, garden-city fabric and Collserola inside Barcelona's boundary.
6 barris · pop. 152,943
Gràcia
Gràcia: the town of squares, self-built hills and Park Güell.
5 barris · pop. 126,830
Horta-Guinardó
Horta-Guinardó: market-garden valleys, self-built hills and megastructures in Vall d'Hebron.
11 barris · pop. 183,006
Nou Barris
Nou Barris: thirteen peripheral barris of estates, self-building and struggles for basic services.
13 barris · pop. 183,280
Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu: industrial Palomar town, Besòs, cheap houses and the endless Sagrera works.
7 barris · pop. 158,284
Sant Martí
Sant Martí: from Poblenou's Catalan Manchester to Diagonal Mar towers and Besòs estates.
10 barris · pop. 252,625