El Poblet: the roots of Sagrada Família neighbourhood

This "little town" was the original core of what we call today the Sagrada Família neighbourhood, and it was located around the area where delimit the streets of Nàpols with Marina and Mallorca with València. This last one, by the way, was the first "Main Street" of the neighbourhood and was the place where the main events and festivals were celebrated, during the first decades of the 20^th century.

In the original "El Poblet”, there were one-storey and second-storey modest houses. Years later the new Eixample streets started to be raised and these houses were not destroyed. This is how the authorities were forced to accept some internal alleys within the Cerdà Plan blocks, which would provide an exit to these new passageways of the Eixample. It is the origin of the alleys de Gaiolà, de Maiol, de Font, de Simó and others.... that still survive and have become a hallmark for this quarter.