- Plaça de Francesc Macià, Barcelona
Plaça de Francesc Macià is a square in
Barcelona ,Catalonia ,Spain . Located in one of the main business areas of the city, it's one of the most transited points of Barcelona. It's crossed byAvinguda Diagonal and several other major thoroughfares:Avinguda de Josep Tarradellas ,Travessera de Gràcia ,Carrer del Comte d'Urgell andAvinguda de Pau Casals . It's part of theSarrià-Sant Gervasi district, even though it borders two otherdistricts of Barcelona :Les Corts andEixample .It's named after
Francesc Macià i Llussà (1859-1933), Catalan president during theSecond Spanish Republic who proclaimed a short-livedCatalan Republic .The central part of the square contains a pond modelled after the shape of
Minorca , the birthplace of its architect,Nicolau Rubió i Tudurí , as well as as femenine sculpture called "Joventut" ("youth") designed byJosep Manuel Benedicto , added in 1953.Spanish-language newspaper
La Vanguardia is based inAvinguda Diagonal 477, within square limits.History
The square was devised by Nicolau Rubió i Tudurí in the 1930s as part of the urban reform envisioned for Barcelona, under the specific name of "Proyecto de Urbanización de la Avenida de Alfonso XIII, entre la calle Urgel, desde el Palacio Real hasta el límite del término municipal" ("urbanisation project for Alfonso XIII Avenue, between
Carrer d'Urgell , fromPalau Reial to city government limits"). The square's name has been changed in repeated occasions over time until the transition to democracy (1975-1978). In 1979 its current name was adopted.Names
This is the complete list of names given to the square:
*1932: "Alcalá Zamora" - former president of theSecond Spanish Republic .
*1936: "Hermanos Badía" - honouring brothersJosep Badia andMiquel Badia , murdered by FAI members earlier that year.
*1939: Calvo Sotelo - right-wing monarchist politician during Primo de Rivera's dictatorship and theSecond Spanish Republic , murdered in 1936, considered a "martyr of the crusade" during Francisco Franco's dictatorship [ [http://www.generalisimofranco.com/Discursos/pensamiento/00001.htm La Cruzada ] ] .
*1979:Francesc Macià Transport
The square is the terminus of
Trambaix routes T1, T2 and T3.It can also be accessed using the following bus lines: 6, 7, 14, 15, 27, 32, 33, 34, 41, 54, 59, 63, 66, 67 and 68.
ee also
*List of streets and squares in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi
References
*
Jesús Portavella i Isidoro (2005), "Itineraris: Sant Gervasi", Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-9850-032-5 (in Catalan).
*Enciclopèdia Catalana (2006), "Enciclopèdia de Barcelona ", Vol. 3. ISBN 84-412-1397-6 (in Catalan).External links
* [http://www.bcn.cat/cgi-guia/guiamap4/cgi-guia/?actives=&scl=4&cnt=28553.76%2C83688.07&plt=&plant=capes4c&txt1=&txt2=&idioma=0&grayscl=0&zoom=1&map.x=185&map.y=326 Plaça Francesc Macià at the urban guide of bcn.cat]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=es&time=&date=&ttype=&q=Pla%C3%A7a+de+Francesc+Maci%C3%A0,+Barcelona,+Barcelona,+Catalu%C3%B1a,+Espa%C3%B1a&sll=41.918677,2.256982&sspn=0.007153,0.014591&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=0,41.392890,2.145068&ll=41.393729,2.145059&spn=0.014423,0.029182&t=h&z=15&om=1 Google Maps.]
* [http://www.ub.es/escult/forum/projects/Diagonal.htm Article about Avinguda Diagonal, including info on the square.]
* [http://www.tmb.net/es_ES/turistes/busturistic/francescmacia.jsp Francesc Macià at the TMB website.]
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