Plaça d'Ildefons Cerdà (often known simply as ''Plaça Cerdà'') is a square in

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, part of La Bordeta, in the

Sants-Montjuïc Sants-Montjuïc () is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been split since 1984, numbered District 3. Comprising very different areas of the city, it covers the southern part of Barcelona, joining the two former districts ''II'' (mad ...

district, very close to the boundary of the municipality of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. It is named after the city's renowned urban planner

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 ...

. It is essentially a large roundabout which connects different parts of the city. The new

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s of Barcelona and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, collectively known under the name '' Ciutat de la Justícia'' are located in the immediacy of this square. Recent redevelopment has changed the area's feel, as well as promotion of the different Fira de Barcelona venues, not far from the square. Decisions made by recent urbanists has been criticised as a place hostile to strollers and therefore quite different from the idea of Barcelona an urbanist like Ildefons Cerdà had. A monument to Cerdà by sculptor Antoni Riera Clavillé was inaugurated in 1959, one century after his original urban plan, but was removed shortly after General Jorge Vigón, the

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Minister of Public Works, dismissed it publicly. There is no name plate in the square, which makes it theoretically a nameless space. It is crossed by

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(which here also becomes the main road to

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) and by

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, which changes name here, becoming Passeig de la Zona Franca.

Transportation

The

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and

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L8 station ''

'' opened in 1987.

References

External links

City map at Bcn.esNomenclàtor
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