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The Avinguda Diagonal (Diagonal Avenue) was designed by the architect
Ildefons Cerdá. His intention was to construct the new center of the city with a wide and symmetrical avenue that was contrasting with the most ancient zones, as the Gothic quarter. In spite of his desire,
Plaça Catalunya (Catalonia Square) has ended up by being the real center.
Its birth is in the district of Sant Martí and crosses in diagonal the whole of Barcelona up to coming to the Ronda de Dalt. Thanks to its constant width of 50 meters it is an ideal place is for many to go in bicycle, to walk or to play sports, since the area is for the most part flat. The zone, also, is perfectly communicated by buses, meter and
trambaix (tram).
The visitors have at their reach areas of leisure, places to eat and to go shopping thanks to the good number of shops that have settled in the pedestrian streets, as well as the commercial centers near to the stop of meter of Maria Cristina. It is this zone where we also find the University Zone of the city, in which hundreds of young people do life in the campus during the school period.