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Barri Xinès

Fodor's Review:

As you walk from Plaça Reial toward the sea, Barcelona's red-light district, the Barri Xinès (traditionally called the Barrio Chino in Castilian Spanish) is on your right. Though literally translatable as Chinatown, China had nothing to do with the area—the name is a generic reference to foreigners of all kinds. The area is ill-famed for prostitutes, drug pushers, and street thieves, but it's not as dangerous as it looks; the reinforced police presence here may make it safer than other parts of the Gothic Quarter.

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