Via Layetana

Via Leyetana is a street that connects the Ensanche district of Barcelona with the city's port. After getting lost in the narrow streets of the Gothic Quarter, it is much busier. In the background you can see some masts of the port's boats.

The street was originally designed by Ildefonso Cerdá. And later in 1899 the project was resumed, when the section from the Plaza del Ángel to the port was designed by the modernist architect Doménech I Montaner. During the Second World War it was called Via Durruti in honor of an anarchist who died at the front.

Thousands of buildings were destroyed for the construction of the Via Layetana, but one of them was saved, transferring its existence stone by stone to the Plaza del Rey in the Gothic. In addition, the demolition of the buildings revealed the remains of the old Roman wall and Gothic buildings that surround the cathedral.