Verdaguer is a station in the
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 s ...
network, located under
Plaça de Mossèn Jacint Verdaguer, in
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 ...
, named after the
Catalan poet
Jacint Verdaguer
Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló (; 17 May 1845 – 10 June 1902) was a Catalan / Spanish writer, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the ...
. It's served by
L4 and
L5.
It was opened in , as L4 was extended from
Urquinaona towards
Joanic. The L5 part of the station opened in . It can be accessed from
Carrer de Provença,
Avinguda Diagonal
Avinguda Diagonal (, in Spanish Avenida Diagonal) is the name of one of Barcelona's broadest and most important avenues. It cuts the city in two, diagonally with respect to the grid pattern of the surrounding streets, hence the name.
It was or ...
,
Carrer de Girona and
Passeig de Sant Joan. It was known as ''General Mola'' until 1982.
Services
Entries & Exits Per Year: 5,233,550 (2016)
See also
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List of Barcelona Metro stations
This is a list of stations of the Barcelona Metro system.
Lines L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L9, L10, L11 and the Funicular de Montjuïc are administered by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), the city's transit company. Lines L6, L7, ...
External links
Verdaguer at Trenscat.com
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1970
Barcelona Metro line 4 stations
Barcelona Metro line 5 stations
Transport in Eixample
Jacint Verdaguer
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