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La Sagrera
La Sagrera is a neighborhood of Barcelona. Geography La Sagrera is bordered to the north by Sant Andreu del Palomar and to the east by the neighborhood of La Verneda; included by the south end is the zone named Navas, and to the west the Congress area. The neighborhood of is integrated with the 9th district of the city of Barcelona, officially taking the name of (Saint Andrew), although it was instead part of . keeps closer links with than with other nearby neighborhoods. History This name La Sagrera dates to the 11th century when the farmers of Catalonia lived under the feudal system. The Abbot Oliba, seeing the need to protect farmers, created a space of 30 acres around the churches in which people and goods would be secured from assault. In these spaces, the farmers built some small buildings called in Catalan, which they used to store their harvests. The first documented mention of is dated 998 and references a group of houses, some with fortified towers, aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagrera Railway Station
Sagrera railway station ( ca, Estació de la Sagrera, es, Estación de la Sagrera) is a major through station under construction in the Barcelona districts of Sant Andreu and Sant Martí, in Catalonia, Spain. It is intended to serve as the central station for northern and eastern Barcelona, with Sants serving as the central station for southern and western Barcelona. Together with and Sants, currently the only high-speed rail stations in the Barcelona area, it will be on the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line. It will also be on the conventional Barcelona–Cerbère and Barcelona–Mataró–Maçanet-Massanes railways. Once fully completed, it will be a major public transport hub, with dedicated stations on Barcelona Metro lines 4 and 9/10, as well as a bus station. The complex will be fully underground excepting for the station building, with two levels of platforms, accounting for a total of 18 railway tracks. Julià Sort (2013), p. 117–119 The new station is pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esplai
An esplai is a non-profit voluntary association that works in the field of educating children during their free time. It has its origins in the Scout Movement, and has been popular in certain areas of Spain since the 1960s.ESPLAC, Esplais Catalans is the largest and most representative federation in Catalonia. How it works and activities''Text en cursiva'' The Esplai is an entity that works with children and that have different ways of work. It could be like an extra-curricular activity; summer camps and it often is known like a place where children can do weekly activities for two or three hours every weekend. Children and teens can do activities that where energized by a monitor, the person who works in a group like a referent. With all the variety of activities that they make, children and teens can achieve some values, norms and attitudes created by the monitor and shaped in a plan of the group and the entity. All these activities can change they habitual place because it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu () is one of the ten districts of Barcelona since its redistricting in 1984. It was named after the former municipality of Sant Andreu de Palomar, which was the largest in the area and now makes up the bulk of the neighbourhood bearing its name, as well as part of the neighboring district of Nou Barris. Its size is 653 ha. (third district in size) and it had 142,598 inhabitants in 2005. It is in the northern part of the city, bordering the river Besòs, two adjacent towns in the metropolitan area, Sant Adrià de Besòs and Santa Coloma de Gramenet, and three other districts of Barcelona: Nou Barris, Horta-Guinardó and Sant Martí. Neighborhoods It is further divided in seven neighborhoods: * Sant Andreu de Palomar * La Sagrera * Trinitat Vella * Baró de Viver * Navas * El Congrés i els Indians * Bon Pastor See also *Sant Andreu Arenal railway station *Sant Andreu Comtal railway station *Bac de Roda Bridge *Casa Bloc *UE Sant Andreu (football club) * Street ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona Metro Line 5
Line 5, currently known as Cornellà Centre – Vall d'Hebron, its termini, and often called "Línia Blava" (Blue line), is a rapid transit metro line belonging to the Barcelona Metro network operated by TMB, and part of the ATM fare-integrated transport network. Overview It opened in 1959 as the line 2 (originally). Line 5 is long and has 26 stations, from Cornellà to Vall d'Hebron Vall d'Hebron is a neighborhood in the ''Horta-Guinardó'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Four venues in the area hosted competitions for the 1992 Summer Olympics. The Barcelona Metro line L3 stations of Vall d'Hebron, Montbau and ... in the northern part of Barcelona, where it meets L3. Chronology *1959 – Sagrera-Vilapicina section opened (as the former L2) *1967 – Vilapicina-Horta section opened (as the former L2) *1969 – Collblanc-Diagonal/Provença section opened. *1970 – Diagonal/Provença-Sagrera-Vilapicina section opened. The line then known as L2 integrated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona Metro Line 1
Line 1, shortened to L1, coloured red and often simply called ''Línia vermella'' ("Red Line"), is the second oldest Barcelona Metro line, after line L3. It is the longest line of the Barcelona Metro, and links L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Santa Coloma de Gramenet. Originally operated by the independent Ferrocarril Metropolitano Transversal de Barcelona, it is today operated by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) and is part of the ATM fare-integrated main transport system. L1 is the only metro line in Spain to use Iberian gauge tracks, as used by most Spanish main line railways. The line was created in 1926 as a means to join the rail stations the city had in the 1920s, and in preparation for the 1929 Universal Exposition. It has been growing since then to become, as of 2007, a large line made up of 30 stations, the network's busiest. These stations are architecturally homogenous, and as in the case of most metro lines in Barcelona, ornamentation is virtually absent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R4 (Rodalies De Catalunya)
The R4 is a line of Rodalies de Catalunya's Rodalies de Catalunya#Barcelona commuter rail service, Barcelona commuter rail service, operated by Renfe Operadora. It runs northwards from the northern limits of the province of Tarragona to Barcelona, passing through the inland Alt Penedès region. The line then continues towards Comarques Centrals, central Catalonia, describing a U-shaped route through the Barcelona area. According to 2008 data, the line's average weekday ridership is 105,935, the highest on any line of the Barcelona commuter rail service after the . R4 trains use the Meridiana Tunnel in Barcelona, where they share tracks with Rodalies de Catalunya's Barcelona commuter rail service lines , and , as well as Rodalies de Catalunya#Girona commuter rail service, Girona commuter rail service line and regional rail line , calling at Barcelona Sants railway station, Sants, Plaça de Catalunya station, Plaça de Catalunya and Arc de Triomf station, Arc de Triomf stations. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R3 (Rodalies De Catalunya)
The R3 is a line of Rodalies de Catalunya's Barcelona commuter rail service, operated by Renfe Operadora. It runs northwards from the Barcelona area to the French border town of Latour-de-Carol, passing through the Vallès Oriental, Osona and Ripollès regions. With a total line length of , it extends notably beyond the limits of the Barcelona metropolitan area, reaching the Pyrenees mountains. According to 2008 data, the line's average weekday ridership is 22,841. R3 trains use the Meridiana Tunnel in Barcelona, where they share tracks with Barcelona commuter rail service lines , and , as well as Girona commuter rail service line and regional rail line , calling at Sants, Plaça de Catalunya and Arc de Triomf stations. They run primarily on the Barcelona–Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg railway, using Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg as their northernmost terminus, and as its southern one. Together with lines R1, and R4, the R3 (then simply numbered line 3) started services in 1989 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxi
A taxi, also known as a taxicab or simply a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice. This differs from public transport where the pick-up and drop-off locations are decided by the service provider, not by the customers, although demand responsive transport and share taxis provide a hybrid bus/taxi mode. There are four distinct forms of taxicab, which can be identified by slightly differing terms in different countries: * Hackney carriages, also known as public hire, hailed or street taxis, licensed for hailing throughout communities * Private hire vehicles, also known as minicabs or private hire taxis, licensed for pre-booking only * Taxibuses, also come in many variations throughout the developing countries as jitneys or jeepney, operating on pre-set routes typified by multiple stops and multiple independent passenger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona Metro
The Barcelona Metro (Catalan and Spanish: ) is an extensive network of rapid transit electrified railway lines that run mostly underground in central Barcelona and into the city's suburbs. It is part of the larger public transport system of Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, Spain, with unified fares under the (ATM) scheme. As of 2014, the network is operated by two separate companies: (TMB) and (FGC). It is made up of 12 lines, combining the lines owned by the two companies. Two lines, L9 and L10, are being built at present, with both lines having different sections of each opened between 2009 and 2018. They are due to be fully completed in 2026. Three lines on the network have opened as automatic train operation/driverless vehicle systems since 2009: Line 11, Line 9 and Line 10, in chronological order. The network length is , with 183 stations, as of November 2021. History The first rapid transit railway service in Barcelona was founded in 1863 by the pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
