Plaça d'Ildefons Cerdà (Barcelona)
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Plaça d'Ildefons Cerdà is a square in Barcelona
, part of La Bordeta
, in the Sants-Montjuïc
district, very close to the boundary of the municipality of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
. It's named after the city's renowned urban planner Ildefons Cerdà
. It is essentially a large roundabout
which connects different parts of the city. The new court
s of Barcelona and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, collectively known under the name Ciutat de la Justícia are located in the immediacy of this square. Recent redevelopment has changed the area's feel, as well as promotion of the different Fira de Barcelona venues, not far from the square. Decisions made by recent urbanists has been criticised as a place hostile to strollers and therefore quite different from the idea of Barcelona an urbanist like Ildefons Cerdà had. A monument to Cerdà by sculptor Antoni Riera Clavillé was inaugurated in 1959, one century after his original urban plan, but was removed shortly after General Jorge Vigón, the Francoist Minister of Public Works, dismissed it publicly. Ironically, there isn't a single name plate in the square, which makes it theoretically a nameless space.
It's crossed by Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes (which here also becomes the main road to El Prat Airport) and by Rambla de Badal, which changes name here, becoming Passeig de la Zona Franca.
commuter train and Barcelona Metro
L8
station Ildefons Cerdà
opened in 1987.
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...
, part of La Bordeta
La Bordeta (Barcelona)
La Bordeta is a neighborhood in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona, Catalonia . It is located between Sants and l'Hospitalet de Llobregat. The neighborhood was in the bottom of the former municipality of Sants....
, in the Sants-Montjuïc
Sants-Montjuïc
Sants-Montjuïc is one of the ten districts Barcelona has been split in since 1984, numbered District 3. Comprising very different areas of the city, it covers the southern part of Barcelona, joining the two former districts II and VII , as well as the different areas comprised in the Zona Franca...
district, very close to the boundary of the municipality of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat or briefly L'Hospitalet is a city to the immediate southwest of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, and the second largest in Catalonia by population...
. It's named after the city's renowned urban planner Ildefons Cerdà
Ildefons Cerdà
Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer was the progressive Catalan Spanish urban planner who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the Eixample.-Biography:...
. It is essentially a large roundabout
Roundabout
A roundabout is the name for a road junction in which traffic moves in one direction around a central island. The word dates from the early 20th century. Roundabouts are common in many countries around the world...
which connects different parts of the city. The new court
Court
A court is a form of tribunal, often a governmental institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law...
s of Barcelona and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, collectively known under the name Ciutat de la Justícia are located in the immediacy of this square. Recent redevelopment has changed the area's feel, as well as promotion of the different Fira de Barcelona venues, not far from the square. Decisions made by recent urbanists has been criticised as a place hostile to strollers and therefore quite different from the idea of Barcelona an urbanist like Ildefons Cerdà had. A monument to Cerdà by sculptor Antoni Riera Clavillé was inaugurated in 1959, one century after his original urban plan, but was removed shortly after General Jorge Vigón, the Francoist Minister of Public Works, dismissed it publicly. Ironically, there isn't a single name plate in the square, which makes it theoretically a nameless space.
It's crossed by Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes (which here also becomes the main road to El Prat Airport) and by Rambla de Badal, which changes name here, becoming Passeig de la Zona Franca.
Transportation
The Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de CatalunyaFerrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya , or FGC, is a railway company which operates several unconnected lines in Catalonia, Spain....
commuter train and Barcelona Metro
Barcelona Metro
The Barcelona Metro , part of the public transportation system of Barcelona, Catalonia, is an extensive network of electrified railways that run underground in central Barcelona and above ground into the city's suburbs. Since July 31, 2010, Barcelona Metro system consists of 11 lines with 165...
L8
Barcelona Metro line 8
— Line 8, coloured pink and operated by FGC, is part of the Barcelona Metro network, and therefore of the larger ATM fare-integrated transport system...
station Ildefons Cerdà
Ildefons Cerdà (Barcelona Metro)
Ildefons Cerdà is a station in the Barcelona Metro network, served by FGC-operated L8, among other Rodalies Barcelona and FGC suburban lines. It's not properly in Plaça d'Ildefons Cerdà but in the L'Hospitalet part of Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes. It was built in 1987...
opened in 1987.