les restes de l’urbanista Ildefons Cerdà. Adrià Terol, director de Comunicació, Relacions Institucionals i Memòria de Cementiris de Barcelona, explica al Va passar aquí que la tomba de l’ideòleg de ...

It was civil engineer Ildefons Cerdà who envisioned this now-famous plan, first realized in 1860 in what became the bustling Eixample district. As the Catalan capital grew and implemented more of the ...

It was famously used for the 19th‑century expansion of Barcelona, which led the civil engineer behind the masterplan, Ildefons Cerdà ... Cerdà envisioned the Eixample, meaning ‘expansion’ in Catalan, ...

Ildefons Cerdà és un personatge cabdal per entendre la Barcelona moderna, ja que va ser l’autor del pla de reforma i eixample que va convertir la vella ciutat emmurallada en una urbs oberta i ...

Much of this is owed to the revolutionary supergrid plan designed by little-known Catalan engineer Ildefons ... to remove the wall, Cerda embarked on his plan, dubbed the Eixample (“expansion ...

Ildefons Cerdà's Expansion Plan, approved in 1859. Image courtesy of El Debate. In contrast to the narrow, winding streets of Barcelona’s Old City, the Eixample’s wide, straight avenues intersect at ...

the layout of its Eixample district is extremely orderly. Owing its grid pattern to Spanish urban planner Ildefons Cerdà, who wanted to overcome the city’s overcrowding problem during the 19th ...

Photograph by Margaret Stepien When Catalan visionary Ildefons Cerdà drew up his masterplan for the grid-based district of Eixample (literally ‘Expansion’) in the mid-19th century ...