Carrer de Joaquín Costa is a street in the city centre of

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). It belongs to the neighbourhood of Raval, beginning at Plaça de Goya by Ronda de Sant Antoni and finally converging into Carrer del Carme. The area surrounding it is a well-known nightlife district, and many bars . From working class beginnings, the street has been in a continuous state of

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during the 2000s (decade) and has become more mainstream attention in recent years, as well as a residential area home to many Filipino and

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immigrants. Teatre Goya and the Aragonese Cultural Centre are on the northern end of Joaquín Costa.

Names and history

The street is named after the 19th century Aragonese intellectual, economist and Liberal politician Joaquín Costa. Until 1923, the street's former name was Calle Poniente (

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or Carrer Ponent ( Catalan). An early 20th-century

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Enriqueta Martí Enriqueta Martí Ripollés (1868 – 12 May 1913) was a Spanish child serial killer, kidnapper, prostitute and Procuring (prostitution), procuress of children. She was called "The Vampire of carrer Ponent", "The Vampire of Barcelona" and "The Va ...

, known as "the vampire of Barcelona" or "the vampire of calle Poniente" lived on number 29 of this street.

Transport

Although no buses run It can be easily accessed from the

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stations Universitat ( L1 and L2 and

Sant Antoni Sant Antoni is a neighborhood in the ''Eixample'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Its non-official centre, the Mercat de Sant Antoni, marketplace of the same name—designed by Antoni Rovira i Trias and built between 1872 and 1882—i ...

References

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