{"id":92649,"date":"2017-12-19T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T09:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=92649"},"modified":"2017-12-12T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T10:03:51","slug":"curiosities-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/curiosities-metro\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosities of the Barcelona Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you live in Barcelona, chances are you take the <strong>metro<\/strong> nearly every day. Even if you prefer other means of transport, you probably pass a handful of <strong>metro stations<\/strong> on your daily commute. With 180 stations and 12 transport lines, the <strong>Barcelona metro<\/strong> is the second largest metro system in Spain, used by millions of residents and visitors each year. But even if you use the metro several times a day, you might not know some of its hidden <strong>secrets.<\/strong> The <strong>Barcelona metro system<\/strong> has its fair share of underground history, and we&#8217;ve uncovered some of the most interesting <strong>curiosities of the Barcelona metro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/metro-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona Metro Station Names<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/curiosities-metro\/#History_of_the_Barcelona_metro\" title=\"History of the Barcelona metro\">History of the Barcelona metro<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/curiosities-metro\/#Ghost_stations\" title=\"Ghost stations\">Ghost stations<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/curiosities-metro\/#Air_raid_shelters\" title=\"Air raid shelters\">Air raid shelters<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/curiosities-metro\/#The_cursed_station\" title=\"The cursed station\">The cursed station<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"History_of_the_Barcelona_metro\"><\/span>History of the Barcelona metro<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_92652\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92652\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/5096316210_3717b383da_b-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by lombroso34 via Visualhunt<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The beginnings of the<strong> Barcelona metro<\/strong> go back to the turn of the twentieth century when the city was experiencing massive population growth thanks to the industrial revolution. <strong>Metro<\/strong> construction began and the first piece was opened in 1924 between Lesseps and Pla\u00e7a Catalunya which now forms part\u00a0of Line 3. Today, the metro connects the entire city for affordable and convenient transport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the hundred years since construction, the metro system has seen many changes. In fact, the only original metro entrance that still exists today can be found leading into the <strong>Urquinaona<\/strong> station on Carrer del\u00a0Bruc. But in addition to the fascinating history of its construction, there are other stories hidden under the streets of Barcelona that most people probably don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ghost_stations\"><\/span>Ghost stations<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_92651\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92651\" class=\" wp-image-92651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/35040284055_be9ffd268c_b-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"167\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Waywuwei via Visualhunt<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Above ground, you would never even notice when you might be walking right over the top of one of the Barcelona metro&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/ghost-metro-stations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ghost stations<\/strong><\/a>. In total, there are twelve abandoned stations in the city, including the <strong>Gaud\u00ed Station\u00a0<\/strong>that was constructed beneath Avinguida Gaud\u00ed near the Sagrada Familia in the 1960s but never went into use as a metro station. Today, the station can be seen from the trains passing in both directions on line 5 to and from the Sagrada Familia. Some even say that the station is <strong>haunted,<\/strong> claiming to have seen ghost passengers standing on the platform, including the famous architect himself, Antoni Gaud\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em style=\"text-align: center;\">Related article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/metro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Barcelona Metro<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Air_raid_shelters\"><\/span>Air raid shelters<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_92653\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92653\" class=\" wp-image-92653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/6225402939_48b48c7a92_b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"166\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by jaime.silva via Visualhunt<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like every corner of the city, the Barcelona metro has its own history of the Spanish Civil War. The underground network once served as a <strong>bomb shelter\u00a0<\/strong>for Barcelona residents during the air raid attacks on the city. One of these shelters, <a href=\"http:\/\/ajuntament.barcelona.cat\/museuhistoria\/es\/muhba-refugi-307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Refugio 307<\/strong><\/a>, has been excavated in the Poble Sec neighborhood and is now open to the public to visit. Forming part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/muhba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Museu d&#8217;Historia de Barcelona<\/a>, <strong>Shelter 307\u00a0<\/strong>contains 200 meters of tunnels and offers visitors a chance to see the living conditions within its rooms and imagine what wartime in Barcelona would have been like.<\/p>\n<p>Address:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.es\/maps\/place\/Refugi+307\/@41.3714313,2.166636,15z\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x2d6816c5ae3b48ed?sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi6z82PovrXAhXH2hoKHWCcCTkQ_BIIfTAK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 175, 08004 Barcelona<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_cursed_station\"><\/span>The cursed station<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_92225\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92225\" class=\"wp-image-92225 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/station-839208_1920-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"174\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo via Pixabay<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barcelona is a city full of urban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/myth-legend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>legends<\/strong><\/a>, so it&#8217;s no surprise that the metro system has it&#8217;s very own. In the 1980&#8217;s Rocafort station became known as the <strong>cursed metro station<\/strong> after four suicides took place there within the space of one month there. Now, some claim to see dark figures walking along the tracks and on the station&#8217;s platforms at night. They even say that the surveillance cameras\u00a0have captured the ghostly images. Some TMB workers even refuse to work in the station at night to this very day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From the history of the <strong>Barcelona metro<\/strong> to the many legends and secrets hidden within its tunnels. The underground\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/miquel-biada-railway-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">railways<\/a> <\/strong>of Barcelona are\u00a0home to several <strong>curiosities<\/strong> worth investigating. While you may never realize it out in the open air and Barcelona sunshine, the city has another life beneath your feet with its very own fascinating history.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Looking for an apartment in the city? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ShBarcelona<\/strong><\/a> can help you find the perfect one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>*Main photo by UT440 131M via Visualhunt<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"\n    class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-valign-bottom kksr-align-left \"\n    data-id=\"92649\"\n    data-slug=\"\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 150px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 25px; height: 25px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n    <div class=\"kksr-legend\">\n            <strong class=\"kksr-score\">5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\/<\/span>\n        <strong>5<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">(<\/span>\n        <strong class=\"kksr-count\">1<\/strong>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">\n            vote        <\/span>\n        <span class=\"kksr-muted\">)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Barcelona, chances are you take the metro nearly every day. 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