Ciutat Vella
Ciutat Vella is, as its name suggests, the oldest part of Barcelona. Centred along the Las Ramblas boulevard, it includes Barcelona's old port as well as parts built from the early Middle Ages to mid-19th century.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb with 102,000 residents
- Description: district of Barcelona
- Neighbors: Eixample, Sant Martí and Sants-Montjuïc
Notable Places in the Area
Palau de la Música Catalana
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Palau Güell
Photo: Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Palau Güell is a mansion designed by the architect Antoni Gaudí for the industrial tycoon Eusebi Güell, and was built between 1886 and 1888.
Picasso Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museu Picasso is an art museum in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain.
Localities in the Area
Eixample
Photo: Armigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eixample is the quarter designed during the middle of the 19th century by Ildefons Cerdà, expanding the medieval city of Barcelona into space left empty for defense outside the city walls.
The Raval
Photo: Enfo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Raval is a neighborhood in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia.
Sant Antoni
Photo: Pere prlpz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sant Antoni is a neighborhood in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia.
Ciutat Vella
- Categories: old town, district of Barcelona and locality
- Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.38198° or 41° 22' 55" northLongitude
2.18042° or 2° 10' 50" eastPopulation
102,000Elevation
28 metres (92 feet)Open Location Code
8FH495JJ+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
node 10925234224OpenStreetMap Feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6544106Wikidata ID
Q941385Ciutat Vella Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: ثيوتات فيا
- Armenian: Հին քաղաք
- Basque: Ciutat Vella
- Catalan: Barri Vell
- Catalan: Casc antic de Barcelona
- Catalan: Ciutat Vella
- Catalan: Ciutat Vella de Barcelona
- Catalan: Districte 1
- Catalan: Districte I
- Catalan: Districte de Ciutat Vella
- Cebuano: Ciutat Vella
- Chinese: 旧城区
- Chinese: 舊城區
- Danish: Ciutat Vella
- Dutch: Ciutat Vella
- English: Old Town
- Esperanto: Malnova Urbo de Barcelono
- Finnish: Ciutat Vella
- French: Ciutat Vella
- French: Vieille-ville de Barcelone
- French: Vieille ville de Barcelone
- Galician: Ciutat Vella de Barcelona
- Georgian: სიუტატ-ველა
- German: Altstadt
- German: Ciutat Vella
- Hebrew: סיוטט וליה
- Irish: Ciutat Vella
- Italian: Ciutat Vella
- Japanese: シウタ・ベリャ
- Luxembourgish: Distrikt Ciutat Vella
- Malagasy: Ciutat Vella
- Norwegian: Ciutat Vella
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ciutadella
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ciutat Vella
- Occitan (post 1500): Ciutat Vella
- Persian: سویتاد بیا
- Polish: Ciutat Vella
- Portuguese: Ciutat Vella
- Portuguese: Distrito de Ciutat Vella
- Quechua: Ciutat Vella de Barcelona
- Romanian: Ciutat Vella
- Russian: Старый Город
- Russian: Старый город
- Russian: Старый город Барселона
- Russian: Старый город Каталония
- Slovenian: Ciutat Vella
- Spanish: Ciudad Vieja
- Spanish: Ciutat Vella de Barcelona
- Spanish: Distrito 1
- Spanish: Distrito de Ciudad Vieja
- Spanish: Distrito de Ciutat Vella
- Swedish: Ciutat Vella
- Turkish: Ciutat Vella
- Ukrainian: Старе місто Барселони
- Western Armenian: Հին քաղաք
- Distrito Ciutat Vella
Other Places Named Ciutat Vella
Localities in the Area
- Gothic QuarterQuarter
- Moll de la FustaLocality
- La RiberaNeighbourhood
- Santa CaterinaNeighbourhood
- borneNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Ciutat Vella. Photo: jlascar, CC BY 2.0.