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districts - Born
BORN DISTRICT. The Born was the old waterfront neighbourhood. El Born has been transformed in recent years to become one of the trendiest neighbourhoods of Barcelona. Its old streets are bursting with chic tapas and cocktail bars, candlelit restaurants and fashion boutiques. The area borders the port and the nice beaches of the Barceloneta, the Gothic Quarter, where you will find the cathedral and the outstanding Rambla and the Ciutadella Park, where you may stay in the shade beneath a tree. The neighbourhood contains possibly the most disparate aesthetic extremes Barcelona has to offer: on one hand the Moderniste Palau de la Música concert hall, a jewel of Modernism declared world-heritage site by UNESCO in 1997, and on the other hand the imposing Santa Maria del Mar church, a building of extraordinary beauty and one of the finest examples of Catalan Gothic architecture. This district is thick with some of the city’s smallest and most medieval streets and alleys. One of them is Carrer Montcada, an elegant street dating back to the Barcelona of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which retains a great number of palaces including the well-known Museu Picasso. Another interesting architectural piece is the old Born market, an extraordinary wrought-iron structure, built in 1874 and refurbished in 2002. During its latest renovation workers had a great surprise, as they discovered under the ground the extremely well preserved remains of an old section of the Born district that date back to the early eighteenth century.
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