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Barcelona has several main areas to explore. Between Plaça Catalunya and the port lies the Old City, or Ciutat Vella including El Barri Gòtic (the Gothic Quarter); the shop, bar, and tapas-rich La Ribera (the waterfront, also known as Born-Ribera); the populous central promenade of the Rambla; and El Raval, the former slums or outskirts southwest of the Rambla. Above Plaça Catalunya is the grid-pattern expansion known as the Eixample (literally, the "Expansion") built after the city's third series of defensive walls were torn down in 1860; this area contains most of Barcelona's Moderniste architecture. Farther north and west, Upper Barcelona includes the former outlying towns of Gràcia and Sarrià, the Pedralbes area, and, rising up behind the city, Tibidabo and the green hills of the Collserola nature preserve. More »

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