Somorrostro Beach is one of the beaches in Barcelona, Catalonia. It is located between Hospital del Mar and Marina Street, in the far east area of the Barceloneta neighborhood, in the Ciutat Vella district. It is 522 metres (1,713 ft) long and 89 metres (292 ft) wide.[1] The Somorrostro name was forgotten and the beach became one of the most popular in the city. It was not until 2010, Somorrostro beach got its original name back.[2]
Somorrostro beach
History
During the 19th century and part of the 20th century, the beach, and much of the neighboring beach areas was occupied by a shanty town, inhabited by 15,000 people living in 2,000 slums. Known during this time as a Romani community.[3] It was not until the 1966 visit of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco that the slum removal began.[4] Most of these slums were pulled down between the 1960s and 1980s.[5]
Aerial view of Somorrostro Beach and Port Olympic in Barcelona, Spain
Aerial view of the Promenade and Somorrostro Beach in Barcelona
References
^"Somorrostro Beach". Barcelona Tourism. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
^"Barcelona recuperará el nombre de Somorrostro para un tramo de la playa" [Barcelona will recover the name of Somorrostro for a stretch of the beach]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 9 November 2010. Retrieved 2019-11-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^Vila, M. (2017-05-24). "Shantytowns in Barcelona: in the shadows of history". EL PAÍS. Retrieved 2019-11-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
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