Hospital de Bellvitge, formerly known as Feixa Llarga, is a

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station, in the L'Hospitalet de Llobregat municipality of the

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, and named after the nearby

Bellvitge University Hospital The Bellvitge University Hospital (in Catalan Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge) is a public hospital located in town of l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, with care, teaching and researching activity. It is specialized in high complexity medical care. I ...

. The station is the western terminus of line L1. The station lies under the car park of the hospital, between the hospital itself and the ''

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''. It has a single entrance and underground ticket hall, which gives access to two long

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s on a lower level. Beyond the platforms at the country end of the station are several storage and reversing sidings. The station opened in 1989, when line L1 was extended from Avinguda Carrilet station. It was originally known as Feixa Llarga, after the

Estadi La Feixa Llarga The Estadi Municipal de Futbol de L'Hospitalet is a football stadium located in the Feixa Llarga district of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain. It was opened in 1999. It has a capacity of 6740 seated spectators. Currently it is the hom ...

, the football stadium of local team

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. It was given its current name in 2003. Future plans are for L1 to be extended from this station towards

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, where it will provide interchange with the planned joint section of lines L2 and L9 towards

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