Carrer de Pelai (official
Catalan
Catalan may refer to:
Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
Places
* 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...
name; sometimes called, in Spanish, ''Calle de Pelayo'') is a major shopping street in
Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
, one of the busiest in the city at daytime. It forms the border between the districts of
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
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 ...
in the center of the city, and runs from the intersection of
Plaça de Catalunya with
La Rambla and the
El Triangle shopping centre to
Plaça de la Universitat. It is named after
King Pelagius of
Asturias
Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in nor ...
. The current Catalan-language name was approved in 1980 by the city council, though it also bore that same name before 1900.
Transport
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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 sys ...
stations
Catalunya
Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy.
Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
(
L1,
L3,
L6 and
L7) and
Universitat (
L1,
L2).
See also
*
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 ...
*
List of streets and squares in Ciutat Vella
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Avinguda de la Llum
Avinguda de la Llum (Catalan for ''Avenue of Light''; Spanish: Avenida de la Luz) is a now-closed underground mall in Barcelona, the first one of its kind to open in Europe, open between 1940 and 1990, on a 2000 square-metre site built in 1929 and ...
References
External links
Pictures at Pueblos-espana.org
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Streets in Barcelona
Pelagius of Asturias