ABSTRACT
Poblenou was the coastal sector of the former municipality of Sant Martí de
Provençals, incorporated into the City of Barcelona in 1897. The area is built
on land reclaimed from the old coastal lagoons to the south of the river
Besós delta. In the second half of the nineteenth century an urban centre,
basically of an industrial nature, was established there, constituting a new
district of Barcelona to the east of the old city, on the far side of the military
citadel and railway lines. Up until the time of the large-scale infrastructure
work for the 1992 Olympic Games it had remained cut off from the central
part of the city by substantial physical barriers.
