Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Catalonia
- Province
- Barcelona
- Comarca
- Barcelonès
- Municipality
- Barcelona
- Neighbourhoods
- El Raval , El Gòtic , La Barceloneta , Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera
- Total
- 4.37 km (1.69 sq mi)
- Density
- 24,600/km (63,700/sq mi)
- Website
- bcn.cat/ciutatvella
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
1860 map.
Ciutat Vella ( Catalan pronunciation: [siwˈtad ˈbeʎə], meaning in English "Old City") is a district of Barcelona, numbered District 1. The name means "old city" in Catalan and refers to the oldest neighborhoods in the city. Ciutat Vella is nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and the neighborhood called l'Eixample ("the Extension").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ciutat Vella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.