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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 21/06/2026 00:03:00

Slicing across the regular blocks of Barcelona at an angle, the Avinguda Diagonal is one of the city's most important thoroughfares, running for several kilometres from the inland districts down towards the sea. Its name comes directly from the way it cuts diagonally through the grid. The avenue was part of the celebrated 19th-century expansion plan for the city drawn up by the engineer Ildefons Cerda, whose design extended Barcelona beyond its old walls in a vast, even grid crossed by a few br...