Barcelona district - Sants - Les Corts tourist information.
SANTS - LES CORTS DISTRICT. Sants and Les Corts were once two independent village in the in the southwest of Barcelona and it became a part of the city in 1897. Those neighbourhoods began as a resting post for travelers heading into historic walled barcelona where the city gates closed shortly after the dark. Theses popular neighbourhoods have several shoping streets plenty of markets, supermarkets, shops, boutiques as well as a number of outstanding Barcelona restaurants and Tapas. In that area you can join in the typical daily routine of the Barcelona locals without seeing tourists on every street corner as you may do in other parts of the city. Its well communicated by metro and bus and within fifteen minutes you can get to Plaza Catalunya in Barcelona city center, La Ramblas, Passeig de Gracia (Gaudi buildings) and the Port area. It also is the area that has the best connections to the airport, by car, bus or train. The places to visit in Sants are the Plaça d‘Espanya with its fountain display, the Espanya Industrial park and the adjacent Montjüic hill which once hold the World Exhibition in Barcelona in 1929 and the Olympic Games which were held in Barcelona in 1992and the Parc de l´Espaya Industrial. In Les Corts you will find the Barcelona University Zone with its very nice atmosphere, the Pedralbes residential area, the Museum of Football and the famous Camp Nou stadium of Futbol Club Barcelona.
Sants - Les Corts tourist information. location map
