Carrer del Consell de Cent (Barcelona)

Carrer del Consell de Cent is named after the consultative assembly of the Barcelona (CataloniaSpain) municipal government (the Consell de Cent abolished in 1714 by the New Plant Decree) and successively crosses the districts of Sants-Montjuïc, Eixample and Sant Martí.

It starts on Carrer de Creu Coberta (Parc de Joan Miró) and ends on Avinguda Meridiana. It is a road parallel to the sea, with wide and perfectly aligned islands, which gives the street an orderly air. Some of the interiors of the blocks of houses have become public gardens and others are made up of buildings that were erected a hundred years ago, and in the basements of which there are shops, service companies and leisure venues.

It is named after one of Catalonia’s ancient government institutions: the Consell de Cent, the “Council of a Hundred”, based in Barcelona. The street’s name was approved in 1900, and has never officially changed (but the name has indeed changed of official language). Its original denomination on Ildefons Cerdà’s plan, however, was Ll (a separate letter in the Spanish alphabet before 1994).

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