L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample (; "the Old Left of the Eixample") is a neighborhood in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). As of 2016, it had a population of 41,854.
The present-day neighborhoods of and formed a single neighborhood () until 2006, when it was administratively divided into two neighborhoods.
History
The Catalan word ("expansion") refers to the 19th-century expansion of the city of Barcelona beyond its old walls. The Cerdà Plan, approved in 1859, laid out this expansion between the old city and the village of Gràcia. The term ("left") denotes the western side of the Eixample, while ("old") distinguishes it from ("new").
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