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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. |
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Catalunya
(North end of Las Ramblas) 