Sant Antoni is a neighborhood in the ''

Eixample The Eixample (; ) is a district of Barcelona between the old city (Ciutat Vella) and what were once surrounding small towns ( Sants, Gràcia, Sant Andreu, etc.), constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its population was 262,000 a ...

'' district of

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). Its non-official centre, the

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of the same name—designed by Antoni Rovira i Trias and built between 1872 and 1882—is one of the oldest and most popular in the city, especially with the secondhand book stalls that surround the building Sunday mornings. It is bordered by the neighbourhoods of the

L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample is a neighborhood in the ''Eixample'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Originally formed a single unit, called Esquerra de l'Eixample, with the current neighborhood la Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample La Nova ...

(on the other side of

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), the Raval (on the other side of

Ronda de Sant Antoni Ronda () is a town in the Spanish province of Málaga. It is located about west of the city of Málaga, within the autonomous community of Andalusia. Its population is about 35,000. Ronda is known for its cliff-side location and a deep chasm ...

), and

Poble Sec El Poble-sec (; ) is a neighborhood in the ''Sants-Montjuïc'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). The neighborhood is located between Montjuïc mountain and the Avinguda del Paral·lel. It covers around 70 hectares. The Poble Sec station ...

(on the other side of

Avinguda del Paral·lel Avinguda del Paral·lel (; en, Avenue of the Parallel) is one of the main streets of the city of Barcelona, dividing Ciutat Vella, Eixample and Sants-Montjuïc districts. It receives this name because it is (unlike any other street in Barcelo ...

). The streets of Sant Antoni follow the grid pattern prevalent in all of Eixample, except for a central thoroughfare, the Avinguda de Mistral, built on the site of an important medieval road which led out of Barcelona. Another well-known landmark of Sant Antoni is the bar called ''Els Tres Tombs'', right next to the market.

History

Although its origins are tied to the now-disappeared Church of Saint Anthony (in

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: ''Sant Antoni'') in the Raval, the development of the neighbourhood dates from the 1880s onwards, as Barcelona expanded beyond its former medieval walls. Very few houses stood around the market when it was built, and most buildings visible today in Sant Antoni date of the 1920s and 1930s, when major urban changes occurred in the city on the occasion of the

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. A working-class area during most of the 20th century, it has undergone important changes in the last decades. As with many other neighbourhoods in central Barcelona, some gentrification has taken place in Sant Antoni since the 1980s and prostitution has mostly relocated since. Nowadays it is one of the quietest areas in the city centre, with 37,878 inhabitants in the 2005 census. The Mercat de Sant Antoni has been refurbished recently. In the meantime, this Ronda Sant Antoni has become pedestrianised.

Places of worship

Catholic

* Sant Ferran (

- Vilamarí) * Preciossíssima Sang de Nostre Senyor Jesucrist ( Viladomat - Floridablanca) * Maria Auxiliadora i Sant Josep ( Sepúlveda - Calàbria)

Evangelist

* Evangelist Church of Sant Antoni (

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)

Jehovah's Witnesses

* Sant Antoni Kingdom Hall ( Passatge de Sant Antoni)

Transport

Barcelona Metro The Barcelona Metro (Catalan and Spanish: ) is an extensive network of rapid transit electrified railway lines that run mostly underground in central Barcelona and into the city's suburbs. It is part of the larger public transport s ...

stations Sant Antoni (on L2),

Urgell Modern-day Urgell (), also known as ''Baix Urgell'' (''baix'' meaning "lower", by contrast with Alt Urgell "Higher Urgell"), is a ''comarca'' (county) in Catalonia, Spain, forming only a borderland portion of the region historically known as Ur ...

(on L1), and

(on L3).

External links

City council website (BCN.cat)the Neighborhood association website