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Passatge de Gaiolà. An explosive past

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Passatge de Gaiolà
Barcelona

Between Carrer de Nàpols and Carrer de Sicília, it hides the first alley opened in the El Poblet ancient quarter in 1871. Passatge del Gaiolà also stands out for another singularity. The location was one of the first places in the city to be bombarded by German aviation – allies of Franco troops during the Spanish Civil War.

Gaiolà, the oldest alley in the neighbourhood

Originally, in the same lands of Avinguda de Gaudí, there was a small town known as El Poblet. In 1882, when Sagrada Familia started to be built, the area had low-floor houses that were not destroyed with the urbanization of the city. This situation created one of the city's urban peculiarities: the alleys.

Font, Maiol or Simó are some of the names of these characteristic spaces, although the most emblematic is Passatge del Gaiolà, the first one that pierced the neighbourhood in 1871. Located between Carrer de Napols and Sicilia, Passatge del Gaiolà also stands out for another singularity: the location was one of the first places in the city to be bombarded by German aviation – allies of Franco troops during the Spanish Civil War-.

Since the eighties, this alley has been pedestrian and it has a lot of defenders led by the Associació d’Amics del Passatge de Gaiolà, founded in 2001.