Vallbona is a neighbourhood in the
Nou Barris district of
Barcelona
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, Catalonia (Spain), in the city's northern outskirts.
It covers an area of , in a hilly region just south of
Montcada, between on one side the railway lines running alongside the
Besòs river, and on the other side the motorways running along the valley which separate the village from the rest of Barcelona. It is connected to
Torre Baró and the rest of the Nou Barris district by a bridge spanning the motorways.
Vallbona was a small village until the middle of the twentieth century when most of it was demolished, the Rec Comtal canal mostly covered over, and high-density housing built. The motorways were built starting in the 1960s.
Its population in 2013 was 1,330, giving a population density of 2,224 per km
2.
References
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Neighbourhoods of Barcelona
Nou Barris