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Les Corts Guide

Les 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.

Below Avinguda Diagonal there is a wealth of commercial facilities as well as shops, schools, hotels and entertainment hubs. Above it, more residential and thus more expensive neighbourhoods include some of the most prestigious areas such as Avinguda de Sarrià, Avinguda de Pedralbes and the exclusive Avinguda de Pearson.

Also to the north of Avinguda Diagonal are sights including the Palau Reial, the Monestir de Pedralbes and ultimately the Collserola Natural Park itself.

The Zona Universitària is the location of the majority of colleges belonging to the University of Barcelona, as well as sports clubs of high standard, including Club de Polo, Tennis Barcelona, University running tracks and of course the world-famous home of FC Barcelona, the Camp Nou Stadium.