The central station of Barcelona
Sants train station is located in Sants district, which got its name from an old temple that stood there in the year 780, the Church of Santa Maria de Sants, dedicated to Saint Bartholomew. Before the 18th century, this area was basically an agriculture area that provided the city with vegetables, maize, wine and meat and it included a rural road, all along the camí ral (Royal Road) that led outside the city. The area’s economic development picked up when a new road was built, and throughout the 19th century three major projects took over: the textile mills, the Sants highway and the railroad.
Sants was annexed to Barcelona in 1897 and it is the oldest and most extensive neighbourhood in the district.
The Sants station is today the first in terms of passenger traffic in the entire country, since most of the trains coming in and out of Barcelona pass through it. Today it is also the city station where the high speed train (AVE) stops.
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