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Framed in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, the suburb is the high area of the city owes its name to "Sirriano", that appears a mention for the first time in the year 986.
The origin of the old municipality of Sarrià is situated between the XIII-XIV Centuries and one century later, the town formed a society based on its return to the earth. With time, it transformed in to a society of specialised workers and artisans, with the proliferation of the towers and summer houses (XVI-XVII Centuries), acquiring great importance.
From 1850, Sarrià lived from activities related to construction, and its population passed an artisanal importance, raising the aggregation in Barcelona.
In the XX Century Sarrià was converted in one of the most prosperous and populated focus of the Barcelona Plan idealised by
Ildefons Cerdà, but its population opposed and was, together with Horta, the only municipality of the plan that prevented the annexation to the city in the year 1897.
In 1921 the aggregation reopened file, by the petition from the
Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (City Council), and the same year, in spite of the opposition from the locals, Sarrià was finally added to Barcelona by decree, being the last village from the plan to be incorporated in the city.
Sarrià combines corners where one can remember the old rural village, like the Major de Sarrià street, with the modern areas and the big communication avenues, or the Monastery of Pedralbes.
The
Estadio de Sarrià (Sarrià Stadium) joins the history of the district, during more than 50 years Casa del
RCD Espanyol, until its sale and demolishment in order build housing in 1997.
Personalities of this district:
JV Foix,
Joan Brossa