Plan Jaussely

At the beginning of the 20th century, the annexation of neighboring SAN GERVASIO
DE CASOLAS
SAN JUAN
DE HORTA
municipalities will take place successively in Barcelona. From then on,
SARRIA
it will be possible to identify three types of spots on the map: the SAN ANDRÉS
DE PALOMAR

medieval city, the Eixample and the towns that had been annexed. LES CORTS GRACIA

SANTS

This provoked new urban needs. On the one hand, connectivity SAN MARTÍN
DE PROVENSALS

problems were evident between the new annexed municipalities

and, on the other hand, the idea of transforming Barcelona into a
great European city.

These needs derived from a contest called by the Barcelona City

Council in 1903 and interpreted in an exemplary way by León
Jaussely, author of the winning draft, known as "Romulus". Port
Medieval City Port

Medieval City
L’Eixemple Water

This preliminary project is ratified by the City Council in 1905. Annexed municipalities

L’Eixemple Water
The project was re-elaborated by Jaussely himself and a local Annexed Municipalities
technical team and definitively approved in 1907.

For the first time, he introduced a basic zoning

criteria to the city and the idea of differentiating
accordingto the type of activity carried out
in each area: industry, residence or commerce.
The proposal also included the reorganization of the
railway structure.
Jaussely’s proposal, drawn up between 1903 and
1907, proposed a road model based on a system
of diagonals and ring roads.

The proposal defined three round rings:

- Circunvalación de la Industria
- Paseo de Ronda
- Paseo Rural
Plan of the Romulus proposal for Jaussely’s linking plan, 1903.

Project of the links of Barcelona to the added towns by the architect León Jaussely, 1911
 THE NEW CENTRAL SQUARE

Map of Cerdá’s area with the modifications proposed by León Jaussely

Gran Estación Central

Gran Plaza de las Glorias

Central Square

Plaza del Ayuntamiento

Gran Vía

Detail of the Great Monumental Center proposed by Jaussely

The articulating axis of the plan’s layout is the Gran Via. The Gran Vía is already
the principal road for Cerdá, but Jaussely gives it even more importance, since it
becomes the territorial guiding axis of the whole plan of Barcelona, parallel to the
sea and to the pre-coastal mountain range, serving as a connection between the
325 m.
Baix Llobregat (at the west) and the left part of the river Besos (at the east).
275 m.
The new administrative and monumental center contains a large landscaped space
called “Square Central” or central square. This large and symmetrical space is the
town hall square where we find public administration buildings in its surroundings.
From the square up and to the left we can find another of the diagonals of conection
Detail of the Gran Plaza de Glorias that links the center with a railway station: Central Station.
designed by León Jaussely