Vallcarca is a

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station in the

Vallcarca i els Penitents Vallcarca i els Penitents is a neighbourhood in the northernmost part of Gràcia, a district of Barcelona. Locked between two hills, Putget and El Coll, it grew out of a few scattered settlements, namely L'Hostal de la Farigola, Can Falcó, Can ...

neighbourhood, in the

Gràcia Gràcia () is a district of the city of Barcelona, Spain. It comprises the neighborhoods of Vila de Gràcia, Vallcarca i els Penitents, El Coll, La Salut and Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova. Gràcia is bordered by the districts of Eixample to th ...

district of

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.The station is served by line L3. The station opened in 1985 when the section of line L3 between Lesseps and

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stations was inaugurated. The station is located underneath '' Avinguda de Vallcarca'' (formerly known as the ''Avinguda de l'Hospital Militar''), between '' Carrer de l'Argentera'' and the Vallcarca bridge. It has three entrances and can be accessed from either side of ''Avinguda de Vallcarca'', as well as from '' Avinguda de la República Argentina''. It has twin

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platform ...

s that are long and which are accessed from the entrance lobby by stairs and

escalator An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horizo ...

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