La Barceloneta, Barcelona
La Barceloneta is a lying seaside neighborhood of Barcelona in the district of Ciutat Vella ( Old City), currently with 15,503 inhabitants in an area of 131.4 hectares.
Location
Barceloneta is a peninsula in the south-east of Barcelona, and has given its location right beside the sea about 1,100 meters beach, the Platja de Barceloneta. To the west, the district is limited by the Port Vell, to the east it borders the Olympic Port. In the north of the Parc de la Ciutadella and the Estacio de França train company RENFE and the eponymous metro station is adjacent to the line 4. At the southern tip of the peninsula which now used as a tourist harbor cable car runs over the Port Vell Barcelona to Montjuic.
Characteristic of Barceloneta are the long, narrow streets that run through Barceloneta in north-south direction. The center of the district is the Plaça de la Font with the renovated market hall in 2007.
Foundation
In the War of Spanish Succession Catalonia fell temporarily to the Habsburg Charles VI. To protect against further raids Barcelona, 1714 King Felipe wanted to build a fort in the district of La Ribera, where today the Parc de la Ciutadella is ( Ciutadella Catalan c. Citadel for Fortress ). Since this neighborhood was not uninhabited, the residents were moved to barracks in today's Barceloneta. 1749 were replaced by stone houses these barracks, the ever growing then in the air. In fact, lived mainly fishermen and factory workers in Barceloneta, thus rather the poorer population, and it became the fishing district of Barcelona. There was some of the best seafood restaurants. This " beach bars " were large, simply furnished and built as simple and stood up to the year 1991.
Barceloneta after the Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics brought many changes for Barceloneta. The houses and streets have been renovated. The beach bars were demolished to make room for the new beach promenade.
The whole had the consequence that Barceloneta has also been developed for tourism. Originally Barceloneta was a very poor neighborhood with a high crime rate, which has just been shunned by tourists. As a result, the Olympics and the economic boom in Spain unemployment fell. Due to the renovations, the district operates today much brighter.
Although Barceloneta still considerably simpler conditions of life offers than other parts of Barcelona, it has experienced a significant upswing. The rates are extremely increased.