Sant Martí (), is a

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located on its eastern side, usually numbered 10 out of the ten districts of the city. It borders the

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, Sant Adrià del Besòs and four other districts of the city:

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, l'

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and

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 b ...

. It did not become an integral part of Barcelona until as late as 1897, having been an autonomous village since 1714 with the imposition of the infamous

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. Before then, it had been a secondary parish of Santa Maria del Mar.

Demographics

Sant Martí has a population of 221,029 (2005), which makes it the second most populated district in

. Being the fourth largest district (10,8 km²), it is also the sixth in density (20.466 inhabitants/km²).

Neighbourhoods

The district is divided into the following neighbourhoods: *

El Besòs i el Maresme El Besòs i el Maresme is a neighborhood in the '' Sant Martí'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Originally the land had been irrigated by the irrigation of the burrow and the Verneda, remains of an old arm of the river Besòs that emp ...

* El Camp de l'Arpa del Clot *

El Clot El Clot is a neighborhood in the '' Sant Martí'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). It is one of the oldest parts of the district that has been around since the medieval times under the name ''Clotum Melis'' (Clot de la Mel). It was one o ...

* Diagonal Mar i Front Marítim del Poblenou * El Parc i Llacuna del Poblenou *

El Poblenou El Poblenou (; ) is an extensive neighborhood of Barcelona ( Sant Martí district) that borders the Mediterranean Sea to the south, Sant Adrià del Besòs to the east, Parc de la Ciutadella in Ciutat Vella to the west, and Sant Andreu to th ...

* Provençals del Poblenou * Sant Martí de Provençals *

La Verneda i la Pau La Verneda i la Pau is the northernmost neighborhood of the '' Sant Martí'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). It borders the neighboring municipality of Sant Adrià de Besòs. Until the 1950s, most of its area was occupied by fields wi ...

La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou La Vila Olímpica del Poblenou or La Villa Olímpica (The Olympic Village of Poblenou) is a neighborhood in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona, Catalonia ( Spain). It was constructed in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the 1992 Summer Ol ...

Etymology

It is possible to trace the origin of the name Provençals in the

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...

word ''provincialis'', a term used by the Romans to design fields just beyond the city walls. Also, ''Sant Martí'' is the name of the first church built in the area. Skyscrapers in Diagonal Mar, Barcelona

External links

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Sant Martí council

Sant Martí neighbourhoods
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sant Marti Districts of Barcelona 1714 establishments in Spain

Demographics

Neighbourhoods

Etymology

See also

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