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Barcelona packs 1,686,208 people into 101.4 km², and that density is legible in the street plan. The Barri Gòtic still follows the Roman grid; everything above it is the Eixample, Ildefons Cerdà's nineteenth-century extension of octagonal blocks with their corners cut away for visibility, which is why so many junctions here open out into small squares. The Gaudí and Domènech i Montaner buildings scattered through that grid carry UNESCO listings. The beach is newer than any of it: three kilometres of it were made when the industrial sea-front was cleared for the 1992 Olympics. The urban area beyond the municipality holds around 4,840,000 people.
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The Sagrada Família is a Catholic basilica in the Eixample district of Barcelona that has been under construction since 1882 and is still not finished.
Park Güell is a twelve-hectare hillside park in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, and it began life as a property venture that failed.
Sant Pau Recinte Modernista is the hospital Barcelona built when its medieval one gave out, and it is now visited as architecture rather than used as a ward.
La Rambla is a street rather than a monument: a 1,200-metre promenade running from Plaça de Catalunya down to the harbour at Portal de la Pau, with the Gothic Quarter along one flank and El Raval along the other.
Spotify Camp Nou is FC Barcelona's stadium, in the Les Corts district on the western side of the city. The club's own facilities page dates the official opening to 24 September 1957.
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