Nou Barris ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈnɔw ˈβaris] , lit. "nine neighbourhoods") is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been officially divided since 1984. The name refers to the original nine neighbourhoods it was composed of, even though nowadays it's made up of thirteen. It covers an area of 8.04 km.
4-414: It is located in the northern part of the city adjacent to two other districts of Barcelona: Sant Andreu and Horta-Guinardó and grew up extensively out of small urbanised areas near the former municipalities of Sant Joan d'Horta and Sant Andreu de Palomar (now neighbourhoods of Barcelona) in the 20th century, especially from the 1950s on. The district council is located in a former mental institution ,
8-567: The Institut Mental de la Santa Creu . It is further divided into these neighbourhoods: In 1998 it had 168,837 inhabitants, having lost over 20,000 people from a population peak in 1991. It's the district of Barcelona with the largest Romani community. In 2005 the population went down again, with 164.981 inhabitants. Since 2000 it's become one of the areas of the city with the strongest presence of immigrants, especially from Romania , Ukraine and Ecuador , and has been largely rehabilitated by
12-413: The city council. Its density is 20.520 inhabitants/km. 41°26′29″N 2°10′19″E / 41.44139°N 2.17194°E / 41.44139; 2.17194 Sant Andreu Sant Andreu ( Catalan pronunciation: [ˈsant ənˈdɾew] ) is one of the ten districts of Barcelona since its redistricting in 1984. It was named after the former municipality of Sant Andreu de Palomar , which
16-504: Was the largest in the area and now makes up the bulk of the neighbourhood bearing its name, as well as part of the neighboring district of Nou Barris . Its size is 653 ha. (third district in size) and it had 142,598 inhabitants in 2005. It is in the northern part of the city, bordering the river Besòs , two adjacent towns in the metropolitan area , Sant Adrià de Besòs and Santa Coloma de Gramenet , and three other districts of Barcelona: Nou Barris , Horta-Guinardó and Sant Martí . It
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