Les Corts

Les Corts is best known beyond the city as the home of Camp Nou, but for residents it is a composed, well-kept district where the football ground sits beside quiet residential streets and the university campus. Once a separate town of farmland and country houses, it became part of Barcelona in the late nineteenth century and kept a measured, unhurried pace. There are everyday markets, shaded squares and the surviving traces of its rural past in old masies like Can Planes. It is a part of the city to understand rather than to tick off.