Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes ( Catalan for "Great Street of the Catalan Assemblies of Estates") is one of the most important main streets in Barcelona . Colloquially it is mostly just called Gran Via (Great Street).
location
As an almost dead straight avenue, the street crosses the entire urban area of Barcelona from southwest to northeast over a length of about 13 kilometers. This makes it the longest continuously built-up street in Spain and connects some of the most important squares in the city. From the southwest these are Plaça d'Espanya , Plaça de la Universitat , Plaça de Tetuan and Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes , where Avinguda Diagonal crosses. It rises in the southwest in the urban area of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat from Avinguda Granvia and ends in the northeast in Sant Adrià de Besòs in the Autopista Barcelona- Mataró . Your north-eastern section is developed like a motorway.
history
The draft for the city expansion, which was presented by Ildefons Cerdà in 1859 under the name “Project for the Reform and Expansion” of Barcelona (in the Spanish original: proyecto de su reforma y ensanche ), included a major road north of the old town to connect the former Surrounding communities to the growing city. In this planning phase, this traffic axis was called Lletra N, Número 11 , it was not renamed to Corts until 1900 - in memory of the medieval Corts Catalanes , although the renaming to Corts Catalanes in 1931 brought more precision with it. After the Falange's victory in the Spanish Civil War , the name was changed to Avenida de José Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1939 ; After the death of Franco and the reintroduction of democracy , the current name was given in 1979.
During the civil war in 1938, the section between the side streets of Carrer de Balmes and Rambla de Catalunya in particular was hit by bombs from Italian planes. A memorial erected in 2001 in front of the Coliseum cinema reminds us of this today .
In 2007, a project began to redesign the motorway-like section between Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes and the city limits in order to reduce noise and environmental pollution in the San Marti district and to use the new spaces created by the construction of tunnels in a meaningful way.
traffic
The Gran Via is one of the main arteries of Barcelona. In addition to the individual and bus traffic visible above ground (including the Aerobus to the airport), metro and long-distance train lines run beneath the street over long distances. Some of the FGC's most important stations, especially for local transport, are located directly below the road. In the eastern part, part of Barcelona's tram has been in operation since 2004 .
Coordinates: 41 ° 23 '10.77 " N , 2 ° 9' 49.11" E
Trivia
On June 7, 1926, a serious traffic accident occurred on Gran Via in the area between the cross streets of Carrer de Girona and Carrer de Bailèn : The architect Antoni Gaudí , who was on the road as a pedestrian, was hit by a tram while crossing the lane and was seriously hit injured. Gaudí died in hospital three days later.
Individual evidence
- ↑ El Punt Avui of December 8, 2009: El carrer més llarg , Catalan, accessed on February 20, 2018.