Port Olímpic
Modern marina with over seven hundred moorings, built atop a former shantytown for the nineteen ninety-two Olympics.
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This guide to Port Olímpic in Barcelona uncovers what stood here before the marina: Somorrostro, a shantytown of tin and driftwood shacks that once housed tens of thousands, bulldozed by Franco's government in 1966 to hide poverty from a visiting U.S. Navy fleet. You'll hear how the site sat empty for two decades before Olympic planners buried the railway tracks and trucked in sand to build today's marina ahead of the 1992 Games. It also points you to Frank Gehry's copper fish sculpture by the Hotel Arts, one of his firm's first computer-designed buildings.
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