Eixample
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The Eixample is a district of Barcelona between the old city and what were once surrounding small towns, constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its population was 262,000 at the last census
Aerial view of the Eixample
District hall
Original Eixample concept from 1859
Part of the Eixample and the Sagrada Família, viewed from Montjuïc, June 2006
Ildefons Cerdà
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Ildefons Cerdà Sunyer was a Spanish urban planner and civil engineer who designed the 19th-century "extension" of Barcelona called the Eixample. Because of his extensive theoretical and practical work
Eixample
…wide avenues, and square blocks with chamfered corners (named illes in Catalan, manzanas in Spanish). This was a visionary, pioneering design plan by Ildefons Cerdà, who considered traffic and transport along with sunlight and ventilation in coming up with his characteristic octagonal blocks, where the streets…
Portrait by Ramon Martí Alsina, 1878
Cerdà's gravestone, modelled on his plan for Eixample in Barcelona
the plan for new barcelona
a plan for street