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Las Ramblas is a busy street
in central Barcelona, popular with both tourists and locals alike. A kilometer-long
tree-lined pedestrian mall in the Barri Gòtic, it connects Plaça
de Catalunya in the center with the Christopher Columbus monument at Port
Vell. Full of street performers, cafés and market stalls, it serves
as the hub of Barcelona. Officially, La Rambla is a series of shorter streets,
each differently named, hence the plural form Las Ramblas. From the Plaça
de Catalunya toward the harbour, the street is successively the Rambla
de Canaletes, the Rambla dels Estudis, the Rambla de Sant Josep, the Rambla
dels Caputxins, and the Rambla de Santa Monica. Construction of the Maremàgnum
in the early 1990s resulted in a continuation of La Rambla on a wooden
walkway into the harbor, the Rambla de Mar.
    Plaça
Catalunya (North end of Las Ramblas)
Drassanes
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