Passeig de Lluís Companys, Barcelona
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Ciutat Vella
Ciutat Vella is a district of Barcelona, numbered District 1. The name means "old city" in Catalan and refers to the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Barcelona, Spain. Ciutat Vella is nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and the neighborhood called l'Eixample...
and Eixample
Eixample
The Eixample is a district of Barcelona between the old city and what were once surrounding small towns , constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries....
districts of Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, Spain
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, and can be seen as an extension of Passeig de Sant Joan. It was named after President Lluís Companys, who was executed in 1940. It starts in Arc de Triomf
Arc de Triomf
The Arc de Triomf is an archway structure in Barcelona, Spain. It was built for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona , as its main access gate by architect Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas.The arch is built in reddish brickwork in the Neo-Mudéjar style...
and ends in Parc de la Ciutadella
Parc de la Ciutadella
The Parc de la Ciutadella is a park in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain. After its establishment during the mid 19 century, it was for decades the only green area in the city, and hitherto of the most popular...
, on Carrer de Pujades.
Former names
The original CerdàIldefons Cerdà
Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer was the progressive Catalan Spanish urban planner who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the Eixample.-Biography:...
plan originally listed it as Núm. 35, and was later renamed to Salón de Víctor Pradera, Fermín Galán and Salón de San Juan, or Saló de Sant Joan in Catalan
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
. In 1979 the current name was approved by the city council.
Buildings and monuments
- Arc de TriomfArc de TriomfThe Arc de Triomf is an archway structure in Barcelona, Spain. It was built for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona , as its main access gate by architect Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas.The arch is built in reddish brickwork in the Neo-Mudéjar style...
, by Josep Vilaseca i CasanovasJosep Vilaseca i CasanovasJosep Vilaseca i Casanovas was a Catalan architect and artist who formed part of the Modernista movement.He studied architecture in Madrid and qualified in 1873. He travelled with Lluís Domènech i Montaner in Germany... - Tribunal Superior de Justícia de Catalunya, a monumental building in a highly ecelctic style, by Enric SagnierEnric SagnierEnric Sagnier i Villavecchia was a Catalan architect of Spanish nationality.Although now not as well known as his contemporaries Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, he was responsible for a number of landmark buildings, was very prolific, and could turn his hand to...
and Josep Domènech Estapà.
Personatges del Saló de Sant Joan
In 1883, the Barcelona city council approved the inauguration of eight sculptures commemorating eight important men in the history of CataloniaHistory of Catalonia
The territory that now constitutes the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain, and the adjoining Catalan region of France, was first settled during the Middle Palaeolithic...
. These had to originally be: Wilfred the Hairy
Wilfred the Hairy
Wilfred or Wifred, called the Hairy, was Count of Urgell , Cerdanya , Barcelona , Girona , Besalú , and Ausona ....
, Roger of Lauria
Roger of Lauria
Roger of Lauria, Loria or de Llúria in Catalan , was an Sicilian-Aragonese admiral, who was the commander of the fleet of Aragon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talented naval tactician of the medieval period...
, Bernat Desclot, Rafael Casanova
Rafael Casanova
Rafael Casanova i Comes was a Catalan jurist, supporter of the Archduke Charles of Austria as a pretender to the Crown of Spain during the War of the Spanish succession...
, Ramon Berenguer I, Pere Albert, Antoni Viladomat and Jaume Fabre. They were inaugurated in 1888. Casanova's monument was moved to Ronda Sant Pere in 1917 and replaced by a new one dedicated to Pau Claris, made by Rafael Atché. However, all but the Roger de Llúria and Viladomat statues were removed in 1937, and the Pau Claris monument, concealed in a warehouse for decades, was reinagurated in 1977.
Other sculptures
- Lluís Companys monument (1998) by Francisco López Hernández. Has the inscription Catalonia and freedom are the same thing: where freedom lives, there my homeland is. A young girl, Conxita JuliàConxita JuliàConxita Julià , is a Catalan poetess and excursionist. She exchanged letters with Lluís Companys i Jover, president of the Generalitat de Catalunya in the years 1934-1940, and her figure appears in a sculpture honouring Companys inaugurated in 1997 ....
, friend of Companys, poetess later on, is the main subject of the sculpture. - Francesc Rius i Taulet monument (1901) by Manuel Fuxà
- Pere Vila Codina monument (1932) by Josep Dunyach.
Bus
- Line 39 Barceloneta - Horta
- Line 40 Port Vell - Trinitat Vella
- Line 41 Pl. Francesc Macià - Diagonal Mar
- Line 42 Pl. Catalunya - Santa Coloma
- Line 51 Pla de Palau - Ciutat Meridiana
- Line 141 Av. Mistral - Barri del Besòs
- Line B25 Barcelona (Rda. Sant Pere) - Badalona (B. Pomar)
See also
- Passeig de Sant Joan
- Parc de la CiutadellaParc de la CiutadellaThe Parc de la Ciutadella is a park in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain. After its establishment during the mid 19 century, it was for decades the only green area in the city, and hitherto of the most popular...
- List of streets and squares in Eixample
- Carrer de Lluís Companys, LleidaCarrer de Lluís Companys, LleidaCarrer de Lluís Companys is a partly pedestrianised street in the Instituts-Templers district of Lleida . It includes a square, Parc de l'Escorxador, with a monument It's named after former Generalitat de Catalunya president Lluís Companys, who was executed by firing squad...