Rambla Nova de Tarragona

The Rambla Nova is a 45 m wide avenue that crosses the modern city of Tarragona from south-east to north-west (700 m long). It has a wide central promenade with trees and side roads for cars. It goes from Plaça de la Imperial Tàrraco (to the west) to Balcó del Mediterrani (to the east), a viewpoint over the sea where Tarragona residents go "to touch iron". It received its name by analogy with the Rambla in Barcelona, u200bu200bsince it is not an old stream: the point closest to the sea, the balcony of the Mediterranean, is the highest on the promenade (42 m above sea level), while the Plaça de la Imperial Tàrraco is 24 m above sea level.

This is the central axis of Tarragona's Eixample. As for its architecture, it is a privileged axis, since almost all of them are of high quality and define a moment and an era. It is also worth noting the sculptures arranged in the central area such as the monument to Roger de Llúria, the Heroes of 1811 (popularly the statue of the und...Read more

The Rambla Nova is a 45 m wide avenue that crosses the modern city of Tarragona from south-east to north-west (700 m long). It has a wide central promenade with trees and side roads for cars. It goes from Plaça de la Imperial Tàrraco (to the west) to Balcó del Mediterrani (to the east), a viewpoint over the sea where Tarragona residents go "to touch iron". It received its name by analogy with the Rambla in Barcelona, u200bu200bsince it is not an old stream: the point closest to the sea, the balcony of the Mediterranean, is the highest on the promenade (42 m above sea level), while the Plaça de la Imperial Tàrraco is 24 m above sea level.

This is the central axis of Tarragona's Eixample. As for its architecture, it is a privileged axis, since almost all of them are of high quality and define a moment and an era. It is also worth noting the sculptures arranged in the central area such as the monument to Roger de Llúria, the Heroes of 1811 (popularly the statue of the undressed) and the Font del Centenari.

La Rambla Nova was started to be built in August 18, 1854, the year of the demolition of the wall of Sant Joan. The urbanization project is due to Josep Criviller, winner in 1854 of a public competition organized by the City Council in order to carry out the union between the upper and lower parts of the city. After many difficulties, with the death of its author, the project finally approved in 1857, by Àngel Romero, is a reform and improvement of Criviller's sketch.

At first it was known as the "Esplanade ", but later it received the name Rambla de Sant Joan in memory of the old section of wall that ran along it. In 1899, the year of Emilio Castelar's death, the section between Carrer de Sant Agustí and El Balcó was named Rambla de Castelar. Later it was called Rambla Nova, and in 1931, with the advent of the Second Republic, it received the name Rambla 14 d'abril. After the Civil War it was called Rambla del Generalísimo Franco. The stretch between Plaza de la Imperial Tàrraco and the Centenary fountain was named Avenida Conde de Vallellano, in honor of Fernando Suárez de Tangil, Minister of Public Works (1951-1957) . Finally, in the decade of the 70s, the current name of Rambla Nova was recovered for the entire promenade from Plaza de la Imperial Tàrco to the Balcony.

In 2006, a new section of the Rambla was inaugurated, along President Lluís Companys avenue and President Francesc Macià avenue, and which culminates in Plaça de les Corts Catalanes . With this new section, the Rambla became 1,000 m long and became a promenade from the Francolí River to the Mediterranean Sea.

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