Carrer de Pau Claris is a street in
Eixample
The Eixample (; ) is a district of Barcelona between the old city ( Ciutat Vella) and what were once surrounding small towns ( Sants, Gràcia, Sant Andreu, etc.), constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its population was 262,000 ...
,
Barcelona
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. It crosses the district
grid
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perpendicularly to the seafront, between
Passeig de Gràcia and
Carrer de Roger de Llúria. It starts in
Avinguda Diagonal
Avinguda Diagonal (, in Spanish Avenida Diagonal) is the name of one of Barcelona's broadest and most important avenues. It cuts the city in two, diagonally with respect to the grid pattern of the surrounding streets, hence the name.
It was or ...
and ends in
Plaça Urquinaona, where it becomes
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 ...
. It's the second busiest
one-way street
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in the Eixample district.
It's named after the
Catalan
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Catalonia
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political leader
Pau Claris i Casademunt
Pau Claris i Casademunt (; 1 January 1586 – 27 February 1641) was a Catalan lawyer, clergyman and 94th President of the Deputation of the General of Catalonia at the beginning of the Catalan Revolt. On 16 January 1641 he proclaimed the Cata ...
, who proclaimed the
Catalan Republic in 1641.
Transport
Metro
*
Urquinaona (
L1,
L4)
*
Passeig de Gràcia (
L2,
L3,
L4)
See also
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History of Barcelona
The history of Barcelona stretches over 2000 years to its origins as an Iberian village named ''Barkeno''. Its easily defensible location on the coastal plain between the Collserola ridge (512 m) and the Mediterranean Sea, the coastal route ...
*
Ildefons Cerdà
Ildefons Cerdà i Sunyer (; es, Ildefonso Cerdá Suñer; December 23, 1815, Centelles – August 21, 1876, Caldas de Besaya) was a Spanish urban planner and engineer who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the ''Eixampl ...
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List of streets and squares in Eixample
This is a full list of streets and squares in L'Eixample, a district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
List A
* Aldana, d'
* Alí Bei, d'
* Almogàvers, dels
* Anaïs Napoléon, jardins d' ( Anaïs Napoleón)
* Aragó, d'
* Aribau, d'
* Arts, p ...
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Streets in Barcelona
Eixample