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Plaça de Nicolás Salmerón

Download date: 10/04/2024

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Given its position between Barcelona and the town of Gràcia, the Pla de Nicolás Salmerón served as a middle-class showcase in what was really a more working-class quarter.

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Plaça, or Pla, de Salmerón – the President of the First Spanish Republic – is the gateway to the neighbourhood. Its shops and bars and Catalan Art Nouveau buildings, imitating the grand houses in Passeig de Gràcia, concealed a far more working-class reality behind them.
A point where two paths met, the old shortcut that joined the path going to Els Josepets with the Sant Miquel stream – the way to Barcelona – has always been very busy. In 1850, it was the horse-drawn carriages, known as sabines. Then came the omnibuses, the horse-drawn tramcars, the motor buses, the electric tramcars and the buses of La Catalana Graciense.

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Plaça de Nicolás Salmerón

Address:
Pla Nicolás Salmerón, 0
Districte:
Gràcia
Neighborhood:
la Vila de Gràcia
City:
Barcelona

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La plaça o pla de Salmerón –president de la Primera República espanyola– és el portal de la Vila. Els seus comerços i edificis modernistes, que imiten les cases senyorials del passeig de Gràcia, emmascaraven una realitat molt més obrera a les seves esquenes.

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