Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu: industrial Palomar town, Besòs, cheap houses and the endless Sagrera works.
Sant Andreu de Palomar was a major industrial municipality. Today the district runs from the town core and Fabra i Coats reuse through Bon Pastor's contested housing history to the Sagrera megaproject that keeps the east in permanent transformation. The district groups 7 neighbourhoods with a combined registered population of about 158,284 (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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| la Trinitat Vella | 11,307 | 139.9 | 15,413 |
| Baró de Viver | 2,668 | 116 | 15,242 |
| el Bon Pastor | 15,871 | 85 | 18,735 |
| Sant Andreu | 59,330 | 317.8 | 24,597 |
| la Sagrera | 31,247 | 316.9 | 22,790 |
| el Congrés i els Indians | 15,254 | 373 | 23,047 |
| Navas | 22,607 | 533.2 | 23,517 |
- la Trinitat Vella — La Trinitat Vella is a gateway to Barcelona made to live with everything the city sends through a gateway: water, railway, motorways, prison, movement and arrivals. Between these infrastructures, the neighbourhood has produced a centre of its own.
- Baró de Viver — Baró de Viver is a neighbourhood that has had to archive itself because almost all its first residential landscape was replaced: 1929 cheap houses, floods, annexation, metro, ring roads, new blocks and a mural turning neighbourhood memory into public space.
- el Bon Pastor — El Bon Pastor is a city history told at domestic scale: 781 small houses built in 1929, a municipal border, factories and river, nine decades of neighbourhood life, contested rehousing and four houses turned into a museum so replacement cannot be confused with forgetting.
- Sant Andreu — Sant Andreu is a former municipal capital still organising life around it: main street, square, market, parish, workers’ houses, factories, cooperatives, Casa Bloc and an industrial complex turned into a museum of work in 2026.
- la Sagrera — La Sagrera is a former sacred precinct turned transport corridor, industrial centre and residential neighbourhood that has spent decades living beside a promised station. Read beyond the cranes: a porticoed square, an old road, factories, housing and collective life.
- el Congrés i els Indians — El Congrés i els Indians joins two neighbourhoods made at different moments and in different languages: a church-led housing estate following the 1952 Eucharistic Congress and an earlier fabric associated with people returning from the Americas.
- Navas — Navas is not an old village absorbed by Barcelona but a dense piece of city assembled from earlier roads, post-war housing, the Meridiana and ordinary residential life. Its history appears in changes of scale: small houses, passages, compact blocks and an official estate that promised garden-city form while housing many people connected to the regime.