Carrer d'Aragó is a major thoroughfare in

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, one of the widest and busiest roads of the districts it cuts through, especially

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but also Sant Martí. Its creation was passed in 1863, and was part of

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's urban plan, appearing as ''L Street'' in 1867, even though that name was never approved. Instead, another name, a reference to the

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, was proposed in 1863 by Víctor Balaguer, who was commissioned by the city council to rename all the streets in the area. Its Spanish-language rendition, Calle de Aragón, was the official designation back then. It starts in Carrer de Tarragona and it becomes Rambla de Guipúscoa at the intersection with Carrer de Lope de Vega.

Notable buildings

* Església de la Concepció. A

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church dating from the 13th to the 15th century originally located in

Via Laietana Via Laietana () Vía Layetana in Spanish, is a major thoroughfare in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, in the Ciutat Vella district. The avenue runs from Plaça Urquinaona to Plaça d'Antonio López, by the seafront, and separates the neighbourhoods ...

(

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Ciutat Vella Ciutat Vella (, meaning in English "Old City") 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, Catalonia, Spain. ''Ciutat Vella'' is nestl ...

) and moved to Carrer d'Aragó in several stages from 1869 to 1879. * Mercat de la Concepció - Eixample's oldest market, built on 1888 by Antoni Rovira i Trias. * Eixample district council see, built in 1893 by Pere Falqués Urpí.

Transport

Railway

From the 1930s to the 1950s, the street was crossed by trains on open-air railtracks. Nowadays there's an open railway station between the intersection of Aragó with

Avinguda Meridiana Avinguda Meridiana () is a major avenue in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, spanning parts of the Sant Andreu, Nou Barris and Sant Martí northern districts of the city. Originally planned by Ildefons Cerdà in 1859 to be one of the two most impo ...

and the one with Carrer del Clot called El Clot-Aragó.

Metro

On one hand, line L3 of the

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has two stations in different areas of

: one is at the very beginning of the street, by Carrer de Tarragona, called

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. The second one is Passeig de Gràcia, under the street of the same name. Its original name, however, was ''

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'', and was a separate station in the metro network. On the other hand, the eastern part of Carrer d'Aragó is the passageway though which L2 runs. Its stations include

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, interconnected with El Clot-Aragó railway station, served by L1 and L2, and the L2-only stations Bac de Roda, Sant Martí and, if counting Rambla de Guipúscoa as part of the same road, also La Pau.

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