Portal de l'Àngel
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Portal de l'Àngel is a pedestrian street in the Ciutat Vella
district of Barcelona
by Plaça Catalunya, and part of the large shopping area that spans from Avinguda Diagonal to Barri Gòtic
. It's one of the city's most visited streets and is always crowded with tourists at any time of the year.
It's also worth of noting Portal de l'Àngel is one of Barcelona's most expensive areas, with rents as high as an average price of 180€ per square meter in 2005, which made it Spain
's second most expensive street only after Calle Preciados in Madrid
. Barcelona's gas company Gas Natural
's headquarters recently moved from Portal de l'Àngel to a newly built skyscraper
on Carrer de Salvat Papasseit in La Barceloneta.
There is a large El Corte Inglés
department store in this street, just opposite to a building that has a giant thermometer in its façade. It's also home to other international shopping brands, such as Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Benetton.
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...
district 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...
by Plaça Catalunya, and part of the large shopping area that spans from Avinguda Diagonal to Barri Gòtic
Barri Gòtic
The Gothic Quarter is the centre of the old city of Barcelona. It stretches from La Rambla to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere....
. It's one of the city's most visited streets and is always crowded with tourists at any time of the year.
It's also worth of noting Portal de l'Àngel is one of Barcelona's most expensive areas, with rents as high as an average price of 180€ per square meter in 2005, which made it Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
's second most expensive street only after Calle Preciados in Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. Barcelona's gas company Gas Natural
Gas Natural
Gas Natural SDG, S.A., trading as Gas Natural Fenosa, is an energy company which operates primarily in Spain but also in such countries as Italy, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Puerto Rico and Morocco...
's headquarters recently moved from Portal de l'Àngel to a newly built skyscraper
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...
on Carrer de Salvat Papasseit in La Barceloneta.
There is a large El Corte Inglés
El Corte Inglés
El Corte Inglés S.A. , headquartered in Madrid, is the biggest department store group in Europe and ranks fourth worldwide...
department store in this street, just opposite to a building that has a giant thermometer in its façade. It's also home to other international shopping brands, such as Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Benetton.
Transport
- Barcelona metroBarcelona MetroThe 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...
- Catalunya (L1Barcelona Metro line 1— Line 1, shortened to L1 and known as "Hospital de Bellvitge - Fondo", coloured red and often simply called Línia vermella , is the second oldest metro line in Barcelona, after L3. It is operated by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona . It appeared as a means to join the rail stations the city...
, L3Barcelona Metro line 3— Line 3, currently known as Zona Universitària - Trinitat Nova, coloured green and often simply referred to as Línia verda , is a metro line in Barcelona operated by TMB, and therefore part of the fare-integrated ATM transport network of the urban region...
, L6Barcelona Metro line 6— Line 6, coloured navy blue, is the name of a metro-like commuter train service in Barcelona operated by FGC, and part of the ATM fare-integrated transport system. It links Plaça Catalunya, the city centre, with Sarrià-Sant Gervasi...
, L7Barcelona Metro line 7— Line 7, coloured brown , is a metro-like commuter train line in the Barcelona Metro network operated by FGC, and part of the ATM fare-integrated transport system. Also known as Línia de Balmes, as it climbs Carrer de Balmes uphill into Tibidabo, it shares three stations with FGC L6...
), S1,S2,S5,S55,R1,R2,R4,R7 and regional trains.
- Catalunya (L1