Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona

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Coordinates: 41°23′34″N, 02°09′49″E

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Passeig de Gràcia
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Casa Amatller and Casa Batlló
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Hotel Majestic Barcelona

Passeig de Gràcia is both one of the major avenues in Barcelona and also one of its most important shopping and business areas, containing a few of the city’s most celebrated pieces of architecture. It’s located in the central part of Eixample, stretching from Plaça Catalunya to Carrer Gran de Gràcia. Considering how much it cost to rent or buy a property throughout this avenue, Passeig de Gràcia is nowadays known as the most expensive street of Barcelona and also of Spain, before calle Serrano in Madrid.

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Formerly known as Camí de Jesús (“Jesus Road”), it used to be little more than a quasi-rural lane surrounded by gardens joining Barcelona and Gràcia (then still a separate town), until the first urbanisation project in 1821 devised by the liberal city council, and led by Ramon Plana, who had to suddenly cancel his work due to the epidemics that were raging in Barcelona at the time. After the demise of the liberal government with the return of Absolutism in 1824, the project was to be retaken by general José Bernaldo de Quirós, marquis of Campo Sagrado. The new avenue was 42 metres wide in 1827 and became a favourite place for aristocrats to display their horse riding skills and expensive horse-drawn carriages all through the 19th century.

In 1906 the architect Pere Falqués i Urpí designed the now famous ornated benches and street-lights of the avenue. By that time it had become Barcelona’s trendiest street, with buildings designed by modernista/Art Nouveau architects of fame such as Antoni Gaudí, Pere Falqués, Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Enric Sagnier or Josep Vilaseca.

The Catalan writer Salvador Espriu worked in the tower in

[edit] Notable buildings

  • Teatre Tívoli
  • Jardins de Salvador Espriu

[edit] Hotels

  • Hotel Casa Fuster
  • Hotel Condes de Barcelona
  • Hotel Majestic Barcelona
  • Hotel Prestige Paseo de Gràcia (built in 1897)

[edit] Cinemas

  • Casablanca-Kaplan
  • Comedia

[edit] Luxury goods

Internacional brands like Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Bvlgari, Armani, Chopard, Giorgio Armani, Roberto Verino, Cartier, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Yves Saint-Laurent, Burberry, Ermenegildo Zegna, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger, Max Mara, Carolina Herrera, Loewe among others.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  • ALBAREDA, Joaquim, GUÀRDIA, Manel i altres.Enciclopèdia de Barcelona, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana, Barcelona, 2006.

[edit] External links

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