Drassanes (Barcelona Metro)

Drassanes

View of the platforms in 2009
Drassanes

Location of Drassanes within Barcelona
ATM zone 1
Accesses La Rambla
Portal de la Santa Madrona
Municipality Barcelona (Ciutat Vella)
Opened 14 December 1968 (1968-12-14)
Operator Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona
Platforms 2 side platforms
Accessible [1]
Interchange Port Vell
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Drassanes is a Barcelona Metro station located underneath Portal de la Santa Madrona in El Raval, which is nowadays included in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona. It is named after the Drassanes Reials de Barcelona, the old shipyards of the city that currently hold the Museu Marítim de Barcelona, situated near the station. In addition, it is the closest station to the Port of Barcelona and therefore to the sea. The station was completely reformed in 2007 to make it more accessible by modernizing the platforms and installing elevators.[2] It is served by TMB-operated Barcelona Metro line L3.

The station opened in 1968 as part of the former line III. Its first official name was in Spanish: Atarazanas, and was changed into its Catalan form in 1982, when the whole metro network changed its numbering and some of the station names.

References

  1. ^ "Accessible transport". Your transport. Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona. http://www.tmb.cat/en/transport-accessible. Retrieved 24 October 2011. 
  2. ^ "Es millora l'accessibilitat a les estacions de Liceu, Drassanes i Florida". Generalitat de Catalunya. http://premsa.gencat.cat/pres_fsvp/docs/2010/11/02/09/46/67223c1f-2e6f-4500-806a-a9cdea7c447a.pdf. Retrieved 22 December 2011. 

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