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русскийLes Corts district stretches from around the iconic Camp Nou up to the historic Monestir de Pedralbes and beyond, offering a wide range of barrios with very different characters.
Before 1897, Les Corts was a village of country manors, typical bourgeois houses and housing estates of little cottages. Now the area forms a key part of Barcelona and can be identified by its position either side of the upper end of Avinguda Diagonal, the broad boulevard and crucial communications link that goes through the middle of Barcelona.
This is an interesting area of Barcelona because it combines some of the most traditional buildings and charming old villages with avant-garde buildings and centres that now represent some of its most modern and fast-growing areas.
Like many neighbourhoods in Barcelona, Les Corts felt the benefits of the 1992 Olympic Games with an improvement in the areas around Avinguda Diagonal, with the building of new commercial, retail and recreational developments including a new school, a hotel and L’Illa Diagonal, a shopping centre with its own public park.
In the northern area, on the other hand, which is much more residential, there are many predominantly private schools, and housing is comparatively more expensive than on the other side of the Diagonal. Here we find streets and avenues as attractive as the current Avenida de Sarrià and the same Travessera de Les Corts, as well as places to visit and stroll like the Monestir de Pedralbes or the Palau Reial.
The Olympic event of '92 brought about an improvement in the surroundings, and the greatest effort was concentrated on Avenida Diagonal with the construction of a public school, a hotel, and a large shopping center with a public park inside: L'illa Diagonal.
In the University Zone is where the highest concentration of faculties of the University of Barcelona is located. Here you will find a large number of high-quality sports facilities such as the Club de Polo, Tenis Barcelona, or the Pistas Universitarias, in addition to the famous stadium of F.C. Barcelona: the Camp Nou.