Les Corts
Les Corts: former farm municipality turned campus, offices and Camp Nou gravity.
Les Corts was a municipality of farm estates before annexation. Today three barris span village memory (les Corts), care and sport landscapes (Maternitat i Sant Ramon) and elite Pedralbes around the monastery. The district groups 3 neighbourhoods with a combined registered population of about 83,773 (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 | Income (section mean) |
|---|---|---|---|
| les Corts | 46,672 | 331 | 32,838 |
| la Maternitat i Sant Ramon | 24,622 | 128.6 | 29,377 |
| Pedralbes | 12,479 | 46.5 | 46,631 |
- les Corts — Les Corts moved from farmhouse plain to municipality, industrial quarter and office centre without entirely losing its village core; read it through the low houses of Concòrdia, the traces of the old stadium, Diagonal’s giant parcels and the absences left by Colònia Castells.
- la Maternitat i Sant Ramon — A neighbourhood named after a care institution and a parish contains maternity pavilions, the memory of women and children, housing, university life and one of the world’s best-known stadiums; its landscape shows how Barcelona placed welfare, discipline and spectacle on a former rural plain.
- Pedralbes — Pedralbes is more than gardens, palaces and quiet streets: it is a landscape of power made through a women’s monastery, large estates, agricultural and domestic labour, walls, schools, campuses and a topography that turns distance, privacy and greenery into unequal resources.