Former Municipalities of Barcelona

Map of Barcelona and its surroundings (1855), by Ildefonso Cerdá.

The municipality of Barcelona is the result of the annexation in the late 19th and early 20th century of the different municipalities that were formerly in the plain of Barcelona.

The Nueva Planta decrees of the 18th century eliminated the autochthonous governing bodies of the territory of Barcelona, based on the representation of the different citizen branches in the Consejo de Ciento (Council of One Hundred), and they were replaced by absolutist bodies of royal designation. With the Cadiz Constitution of 1812, the city councils were created as bodies of popular representation and, with them, the municipalities.

At that time the city of Barcelona was what is now called Ciutat Vella. Its boundaries also included Montjuic, the Pueblo Seco, and most of the territory of the later Ensanche, but these were practically undeveloped lands. In 1839 an exchange with the municipality of Santa Maria de Sants incorporated the land near the Creu Coberta (today's neighborhoods of Hostafrancs and La Font de la Guatlla) to Barcelona in exchange for some land in La Marina de Port.[1]

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Barcelona annexed the rest of the municipalities of the surrounding plain. With substantial differences, the configuration of these former municipalities served to design the ten districts into which the city is currently divided.

Former municipalities

Name of the municipality Year of creation Annexed to Year of annexation Current district of Barcelona Comments
Les Corts de Sarrià 1823[2]

1836[2]

Barcelona 1897[2] Les Corts
  • Segregation of Sarriá.
  • It also included part of the territory of the Nueva Izquierda del Ensanche.
  • It did not include Pedralbes (in the former municipality of Sarriá).
  • Boundaries with Sants are in discussion[2]
Gràcia 1821[3]

1850[3]

Barcelona 1897[3] Gràcia
Horta Barcelona 1904[4] Horta-Guinardó
  • It also included El Coll, and Vallcarca y los Penitentes[4] (now belonging to Gràcia).
  • It did not include El Guinardó, Can Baró, Font d'en Fargas, or parts of Baix Guinardó (in the former municipalities of San Martín de Provensals and San Andrés de Palomar).
San Andrés de Palomar Barcelona 1897[5] San Andrés and Nou Barris[5]
San Gervasio de Cassolas Barcelona 1897[6] Sarriá-San Gervasio
San Martín de Provensals Barcelona 1897[7] San Martín
Santa Maria de Sants[1] Barcelona 1897[1] Sants-Montjuïc
Sarriá Barcelona 1921[8] Sarriá-San Gervasio
  • It included Sarriá and most of Las Tres Torres.
  • It also included Pedralbes (now part of Les Corts).[8]
  • Until its segregation, it also included the municipality of Les Corts de Sarrià.
  • In 1892 it incorporated the former municipality of Vallvidrera.
  • In 1916 it incorporated part of the former municipality of Santa Cruz de Olorde.
Vallvidrera Sarriá 1892[9] Sarriá-San Gervasio

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Barcelona - Sants". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  2. ^ a b c d "Barcelona - Les Corts de Sarrià". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  3. ^ a b c d "Barcelona - Gràcia". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  4. ^ a b "Barcelona - Horta". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  5. ^ a b "Barcelona - Sant Andreu de Palomar". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  6. ^ a b "Barcelona - Sant Gervasi de Cassoles". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  7. ^ a b "Barcelona - Sant Martí de Provençals i el Poblenou". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  8. ^ a b "Barcelona - Sarrià". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.
  9. ^ a b "Barcelona - Vallvidrera". www.grec.cat. Retrieved 2023-06-30.