Gràcia
Gràcia: the town of squares, self-built hills and Park Güell.
Gràcia was an independent industrial-residential town annexed in 1897. The Vila keeps a square-based public life; hill neighbourhoods (Vallcarca, Coll, Salut) add self-built and park-tourism layers. Housing pressure in the core is among the city's sharpest. The district groups 5 neighbourhoods with a combined registered population of about 126,830 (padró 2026). The comparative table uses the same definitions and years for every barri. Internal inequalities — income, density, tourism, self-built or Eixample histories — are best read neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Each has its own page with sources.
Neighbourhood directory
| Neighbourhood | Population | Density | Mean disposable income of census sections |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vallcarca i els Penitents | 16,928 | 135.3 | 30,944 |
| el Coll | 8,056 | 228.2 | 23,822 |
| la Salut | 13,947 | 215.2 | 29,059 |
| la Vila de Gràcia | 51,477 | 389.7 | 28,444 |
| el Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova | 36,422 | 559.5 | 28,596 |
- Vallcarca i els Penitents — 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.
- el Coll — 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.
- la Salut — 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.
- la Vila de 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.
- el Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova — 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.