Spain
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Barcelona
- Public Transportation
- TMB App (City of Barcelona)
- Donkey Republic Bike Rental App
- Flight from Barcelona to Portugal
- EasyJet
Superilla de Sant Antoni (superblock)
Added 2026-09-25 by Claude (source/ai/claude).
- What: one of Barcelona’s “superblocks” (superilles), where through-traffic is rerouted so the streets are for people, play and cycling. Sant Antoni’s was created in 2018–19, around the Mercat de Sant Antoni in the Eixample (Reasons to be Cheerful, Jan 2025).
- Next to it: the Eixample “green axes”, begun in 2022: Consell de Cent, Girona, Rocafort and Comte Borrell turned into car-light streets with new plazas at the corners (Ajuntament de Barcelona).
- Why it’s here: it’s a modern answer to Ildefons Cerdà ’s 1855–59 Eixample plan, which gave every block an open green centre; few blocks were built that way.
- On the next Barcelona trip: the market, then walk one of the green axes.