The 19th century industrial district of Poblenous, gives way in the 60s to residential areas, vacant lots and abandoned factories. Hence the neighborhood has spaces and structures that both artists and companies rehabilitate. Now the abandoned factories became design studios, art schools, artists’ workshops, showrooms, restaurants and gastronomic laboratories.

The most creative neighborhood

Poblenou becomes the most creative neighborhood in Barcelona with the Poblenou Urban District initiative that promotes, reinvents and generates proposals that place this postindustrial nucleus in the forefront of Barcelona’s avant-garde.

Innicitives susch as, The Design Museum of Barcelona (in Catalan Museu del Disseny) inaugurated in 2014 in Plaza Glories. But also the Palo Alto Market, a creative, street and sophisticated market, held on the first weekend of every month in a unique space in Poblenou. And The Platform BCN, an art gallery and production studio, which presents, promotes and sells the works of art of international artists living in Barcelona, ​​are some of the most innovative examples of Poblenou.

A booming neighborhood

The 22 @ project wants to turn Poblenou into the technological and innovative district of Barcelona and also to increase the leisure and residential spaces, which is badly needed in the center of Barcelona. The works, which began in 2000 and cover almost 200 hectares of land, are still underway.

Poblenou is a mixture of workshops, art galleries, plots, New York towers, residential areas, pedestrian zones of a lifetime … and all, next to the beach and the sea.

Therefore, with the arrival of numerous international companies around Glòries Square, such as Facebook, Oracle, King etc … the real estate boom arrives in the neighborhood. Still the prices are lower than the neighborhoods of the center of Barcelona, ​​but everything points to an increase in prices in the coming months.