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Plaça d'Espanya, Barcelona

Index Plaça d'Espanya, Barcelona

Plaça d'Espanya or Plaza de España in Spanish, is one of Barcelona's most important squares, built on the occasion of the 1929 International Exhibition, held at the foot of Montjuïc, in the Sants-Montjuïc district. [1]

34 relations: Antoni Gaudí, Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, Avinguda del Paral·lel, Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona, Barcelona, Barcelona Metro line 1, Barcelona Metro line 3, Barcelona Metro line 8, Barcelona–Vallès Line, Bullring, Carrer de Tarragona, Barcelona, Catalans, Catalonia, Ciutadella de Menorca, Dona i Ocell, Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Fira de Barcelona, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Joan Miró, Josep Maria Jujol, Llobregat–Anoia Line, Miguel Blay, Montjuïc, Moorish Revival architecture, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Palau Nacional, Plaça d'Espanya station, Plaza de España, Renfe Operadora, Sants-Montjuïc, Spain, Spanish language, Venetian Towers, World's fair.

Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Spanish architect from Catalonia.

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Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina

Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina is an avenue in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona linking Plaça d'Espanya with Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya on Montjuïc hill.

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Avinguda del Paral·lel

Avinguda del Paral·lel (Avenue of the Parallel) is one of the main streets of the city of Barcelona, dividing Ciutat Vella, Eixample and Sants-Montjuïc districts.

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Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona

Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona is one of the seven territories defined by the Regional Plan of Catalonia (Pla territorial general de Catalunya).

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

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Barcelona Metro line 1

Line 1, shortened to L1, coloured red and often simply called Línia vermella ("Red Line"), is the second oldest Barcelona Metro line, after line L3.

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Barcelona Metro line 3

— Line 3, currently known as Zona Universitària – Trinitat Nova, coloured green and often simply referred to as Línia verda ("Green line"), is a metro line in Barcelona operated by TMB, and therefore part of the fare-integrated ATM transport network of the urban region.

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Barcelona Metro line 8

— Line 8, coloured pink (termini: Plaça Espanya - Molí Nou-Ciutat Cooperativa) and operated by FGC, is part of the Barcelona Metro network, and therefore of the larger ATM fare-integrated transport system.

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Barcelona–Vallès Line

The Barcelona–Vallès Line (Línia Barcelona-Vallès) is an unconnected standard gauge railway line linking Barcelona with Sabadell and Terrassa via the Collserola mountain range, in Catalonia, Spain.

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Bullring

A bullring is an arena where bullfighting is performed.

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Carrer de Tarragona, Barcelona

Carrer de Tarragona is a street in Barcelona.

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Catalans

The Catalans (Catalan, French and Occitan: catalans; catalanes, Italian: catalani) are a Pyrenean/Latin European ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia (Spain), in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya, Catalonha, Cataluña) is an autonomous community in Spain on the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Ciutadella de Menorca

Ciutadella de Menorca or simply Ciutadella is a town and a municipality in the western end of Menorca, one of the Balearic Islands (Spain).

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Dona i Ocell

Dona i Ocell ("Woman and Bird") is a 22-metre high sculpture by Joan Miró located in the Parc Joan Miró in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya

Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya ("Catalan Government Railways"), or FGC, is a railway company which operates several unconnected lines in Catalonia, Spain.

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Fira de Barcelona

Fira de Barcelona is Barcelona’s trade fair institution and one of the most important in Europe.

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Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes

Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes ("Great Way of the Catalan Courts"), more simply known as Gran Via, is one of Barcelona's major avenues.

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

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Josep Maria Jujol

Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert (16 September 1879 – 1 May 1949) was a Catalan architect.

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Llobregat–Anoia Line

The Llobregat–Anoia Line (Línia Llobregat-Anoia) is an unconnected metre gauge railway line linking Barcelona with the Baix Llobregat, Bages and Anoia regions, in Catalonia, Spain.

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Miguel Blay

Miguel Blay y Fàbregas (in Catalan, Miquel Blay i Fàbregas) (in Olot, October 1866 - Madrid, January 22, 1936) was a Spanish sculptor.

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Montjuïc

Montjuïc is a hill in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Moorish Revival architecture

Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental.

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Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (English: "National Art Museum of Catalonia"), abbreviated as MNAC, is the national museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Palau Nacional

The Palau Nacional (Catalan for ‘National Palace’) was the main site of the 1929 International Exhibition on the hill of Montjuïc in Barcelona.

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Plaça d'Espanya station

Plaça d'Espanya, also simply known as Espanya, is an interchange complex underneath Plaça d'Espanya, in the Barcelona district of Sants-Montjuïc, in Catalonia, Spain.

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Plaza de España

Plaza de España (Square of Spain) may refer to:;Chile.

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Renfe Operadora

Renfe Operadora is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains on the, the and the networks of the Spanish national railway infrastructure company Adif (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias—Railway Infrastructure Administration).

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Sants-Montjuïc

Sants-Montjuïc is one of the ten districts Barcelona has been split in since 1984, numbered District 3.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Venetian Towers

The Venetian Towers (in Catalan: Torres Venecianes) is the popular name for a pair of towers on Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina at its junction with Plaça d'Espanya in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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World's fair

A world's fair, world fair, world expo, universal exposition, or international exposition (sometimes expo or Expo for short) is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaça_d'Espanya,_Barcelona

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