El Raval is a neighborhood in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia. The neighborhood, especially the part closest to the old port, was formerly (informally) known as Barri Xinès or Barrio Chino, meaning "Chinatown". El Raval is one of the two historical neighborhoods that border La Rambla, the other being the Barri Gòtic; it contains some 50,000 people.
Carrer del Carme.
El gato del Raval (The Raval cat), by Botero
Carrer de l'Hospital.
Sant Pau del Camp church.
La Rambla is considered the most well known street in central Barcelona. A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 kilometres connecting the Plaça de Catalunya in its center with the Christopher Columbus Monument at Port Vell. La Rambla forms the boundary between the neighbourhoods of the Barri Gòtic to the east and the El Raval to the west.
View over the Rambla from the Christopher Columbus monument, with the neighbourhoods of El Raval to the left and Barri Gòtic to the right
La Rambla in 1905
Flower shop on La Rambla
Pavement mosaic by Joan Miró on La Rambla