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The Olympic Port of Barcelona was constructed in 1991 to provide the city of a sports port and, especially, to give capacity to the sails competitions of the Olympic Games of 1992.
The design of this port, entrusted to the architects
Oriol Bohigas,
Josep Martorell,
David Mackay and Albert Puigdomènech, was answering also to the will of the
Ayuntamiento de Barcelona (City Council) to turn this part of the coast in a recreational place.
In fact, the Olympic Port has turned into a leisurely reference point, so much for natives of Barcelona like, especially, for the tourists, with a wide scale of restaurants and night places, the highlights being Silk Lounge and
Kennedy Irish Sailing Club, very much sought after by the foreigners.
It also lodges the building of La Capitanía (The Captaincy) and the Centro Nacional de Vela (National Center of Sail). As well, it constitutes as a symbol of the changes that the coast of the Catalan capital suffered with the celebration of the Olympic Games.
Two spectacular towers (the Tower Mapfre and the Hotel Arts) develop the role of entry to the port, which arranges, also, the beaches in both sides.
The construction of the port, as well, was accompanied of the construction of the named Olympic Villa, which had the initial target to work as residence of the athletes taking part in the Olympics and that, later, turned into a residential area.