Nou Barris

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Location of Nou Barris in the urban area of ​​Barcelona

Nou Barris is a district of Barcelona in the northeast of the Catalan capital with around 165,000 inhabitants (as of 2016).

The 13 neighborhoods of Nou Barris
The former Institut Mental de la Santa Creu i de Sant Pau , opened in 1889 as a hospital for the (then so-called) mentally ill and closed in 1987, is now the seat of the district administration.

The area of ​​the urban district originally belonged to the neighboring towns of Horta (today Horta-Guinardó ) and Sant Andreu . The extensive settlement did not take place until the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The name "Nou Barris" literally means "9 neighborhoods" and refers to the number of them when it was founded in 1984. Today, the Nou Barris district is divided into 13 neighborhoods:

Neighborhoods in Nou Barris
code Surname Population
(2016) 		Area
(ha) 		Population density
(people / ha)
44 Vilapicina i la Torre Llobeta 25,522 56.7 450.1
45 Porta 24,567 84.1 292.1
46 El Turó de la Peira 15,373 35.4 434.3
47 Can Peguera 2,216 12.0 184.7
48 La Guineueta 15,050 61.1 246.3
49 Canyelles 6,925 79.3 87.4
50 Les Roquetes 15,428 64.2 240.3
51 Verdun 12,261 23.7 517.3
52 La prosperity 26,166 59.5 439.8
53 La Trinitat Nova 7,259 56.0 129.6
54 Torre Baró 2,795 176.8 15.8
55 Ciutat Meridiana 10,055 35.5 283.2
56 Vallbona 1,354 59.8 22.6
VIII Nou Barris 164.971 804.1 205.1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Population statistics on the website of the city administration (Catalan)

Web links

Commons : Horta-Guinardó  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 41 ° 25 '46.21 "  N , 2 ° 9' 36.36"  O