Travessera de Gràcia

Travessera de Gràcia is a street in Barcelona named after Gràcia, a district it crosses, even though it also spans two other districts. It starts in Plaça de Francesc Macià in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi and ends in Carrer de Cartagena in Horta-Guinardó, where one of the landmarks of the city, the Hospital de Sant Pau stands. Its central part follows the outline of a medieval road, Via Francisca, documented in 1057. Its current name was approved in 1932. Before 1867, it was known as Travesera, with the older spelling and no reference to the neighbourhood, since Gràcia was an independent village. The street's other names include Orden and Solar.[1] One of the main markets of the city in its heyday was also on this street: Mercat de l'Abaceria Central, which opened in 1892.

Tiles on a fountain in Travessera de Gràcia.

In Travessera de Gràcia number 9 are the headquarters of perfume and fashion company Puig.[2]

Transport
gollark: But that seems inaccurate because politicians also probably look good/bad if they do well/badly against COVID-19 regardless.
gollark: If you were somewhat more cynical than me I guess you could think something like: updated vaccines aren't part of mainstream political discourse yet, they are unlikely to be unless there is deployment/development of them, and so politicians (who are optimizing for looking good according to said political discourse) don't care and don't do anything about the situation.
gollark: I said three things. Maybe I should retroactively use semicolons.
gollark: So I guess either the entire system is missing obvious low-hanging fruit, the possible benefits of updated vaccines are known but not enough to make people actually budge, or the decision-making people think that updated vaccines wouldn't be significantly better.
gollark: Anyway, presumably if any government did ask for it they'd start supplying it.

See also
  • List of streets and squares in Gràcia

References
  2. "Puig se trasladará a un edificio de CatalunyaCaixa diseñado por Moneo". Expansión. Retrieved 26 April 2012.

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