Rambla del Poblenou
Tree-lined promenade running from inland hills to the Mediterranean, lined with modernista buildings and old social clubs.
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Rambla del Poblenou in Barcelona traces the story of a working-class district once nicknamed the Catalan Manchester, and the mutual-aid society workers founded here in 1869 to build a bank, night school and social club of their own. You'll follow that hall through a civil-war seizure in 1936 and later decades, including a young Joan Manuel Serrat taking its tilting stage. Listen for how a warehouse corner became the promenade you're walking today.
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