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0:56 you got the rivers inverted there.

@jackguerra1716

2 ай бұрын

yup

@CineSoar

2 ай бұрын

@14:18 that would be the Mediterranean sea, not the ocean.

@MichalBrat

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, now it makes sense! I was wondering how can I remember seeing Besos Mar if it is so far from the city center :-)

@25566

5 күн бұрын

Thank god I thought it was weird to have "hospitalet de Llobregat" near a river that wasn't Llobregat 😂

In my opinion, you missed one of the most curious things about Cerda's urbanistic plan. Avinguda del Paral·lel is aligned to the Earth's parallel lines and Avinguda Meridiana is aligned to the Earth's meridians. Extending two imaginary lines along those two avenues, they would intercept each other with a perfect 90º angle, right over the old Barcelona lighthouse from 1772 called Torre del Rellotge (The clock tower) at the port by the seaside. 🤓🤓 This distribution makes the whole thing make much more sense. Opposite to the classical Nort-South orientation in most North American cities, in Barcelona, thanks to Cerda's geniality, every side of every block receives direct sunlight at some point during the day. This is absolutely genius. 👏👏👏👏👏

@davidfrigolatubert7621

5 күн бұрын

But is that alignment of city blocks on purpose, or is it a consequence of the natural axes of the city being sea-mountain and besos-llobregat rather than N-S and E-W?

I'm from Barcelona. And, as many other comments, I must say your video is very, very accurate. Great video! Yes, there are minor (very minor) mistakes, but, mate, the work you've done is great! Thanks. And also, thanks for trying to keep the real catalan names of everything. Again, congratulations

@ptt95

2 күн бұрын

I'm also from Barcelona. I was impressed with the overview of the post 1714 repression. I have seen a lot of videos about Barcelona and Spain from non Spaniards, and most of them reach the whole Catalonia vs Spain issue and try to approach it in an impartial, just factual, way. They never succeed. I guess the current, easily available public information is too partisan to any of the two sides to be able to get a quick impartial understanding. This video however, did an amazing job of explaining the relevant information in a factual way and avoiding entering in the irrelevant (for the video topic) "drama".

Born& raised by St.Antoni here! LOVED the video and the accuracy. I always tell visitors about the geniality of Cerdà's planning and how all the different neighborhoods wherebefore independent villages. Also, how the left party has been trying to get back to Cerdà's green areas idea and how beautifully this is modifying the city. Unfortunately I think we went a bit too crazy with tourism and it's complicating things for us locals, but guess u can't have it all. Thanks for making it!

Fabulous video, very well done and explained! At 0:51 min, the rivers are the other way round. West Llobregat, east Besòs.

@BrightTripTravel

2 ай бұрын

Great piece of info, thank you!

@cassioiks

2 ай бұрын

@@BrightTripTravel Do you plan to fix that? Don't get me wrong, the video is perfect, one of the best I've seen in all youtube. But this little thing taints it a little.

@NikitaHilko

2 ай бұрын

Also noticed that the river names are misplaced. Anyway loved the video too

@DrPepperone

2 ай бұрын

@@cassioiks unfortunately, fixing and reposting videos on youtube is a suicide in terms of views and engagement. Blame the game, not the player :(

@jordi6795

2 ай бұрын

@@DrPepperone YT should have an option of allowing the temporary edition of a video within a short period of time (a week or two as much) and minor corrections (to avoid a misuse of that function), in order to correct this minor mistakes without affecting the views and engagement...😅

I'm for Barcelona, I LOVE how much you respect places explained in yours videos. From the accuracy to the fact of saying names in the original language. Great video man!

you got the rivers wrong at 0:55. They are one each other's place. But apart from that, as a Catalan I find most of your historic and urban elements very well explained.

Great video, I just want to add a minor detail. As you perfectly said, Avinguda del Paralel is called that way because it runs parallel to the equator (from east to west) like the parallel lines of a globe. In the same way, Avinguda Meridiana is called that way because it goes perfectly from north to south like the same globe meridians.

I've watched so many videos about Barcelona's history (I visited a year ago and fell completely in love with the city), but I've never heard them narrated by a South African accent. Very comforting.

As a resident of Barcelona, this is the most comprehensive, engaging and concise history of the city I've seen. Thank you!

Barcelona was where my husband and I went for our honeymoon, and I can't think of a better city to spend a week!

I know for a fact that you did an amazing research for this video. Accurate information and great maps you have to dig in archives to find in goog quality. As a catalan and barcelonian, thank you. By the way, you live in my dream house with those views to Montserrat, a sacred and magic mountain for many catalans.

A part from the minor river swapping error, the video is really good, great job!

Great video! One critical change for the city that the Olympics brought was the construction of "Rondas", Ronda de Dalt and Ronda Litoral. 2 "urban highways" at the edges of the city (Dalt on the mountain neighborhoods, Litoral at the sea) limited to 80km/h which massively improved mobility.

Fantastic! That's what I call a good informative video. Pointing on a map different locations and then immediately supporting your explanations with real image (pictures) of those locations can make anyone understand what you're talking about.

As a person from Barcelona I love this video! But at 6:40, the map shows the territories of the Crown of Aragon, which were the Principality of Catalonia, and the kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia and Mallorca. By 1653, Spain was already formed. Many People considers that Spain was formed when the king Ferdinand II of the Crown of Aragon and the queen Isabella I of Castile married in 1469 (Catholics Monarchs). The 2 crowns, had their own laws and worked practically as different states. Basically Spain was a decentralized state. But when the Succession War began, Catalonians decided to support the Habsburgs because of Philip V's ideas of centralization of Spain. When Catalonia was abandoned by its Allies and lost the war, Philip V retired all privileges Catalonia had and they punished them with things like, as you mentioned, construction limitations

@sergiobasilio8098

2 ай бұрын

He explains that Aragón and Catunya were two completely separated regions, but to not mention the fact that were part of the same crown is a huge mistake.

@01RAMONATOR

2 ай бұрын

​@@sergiobasilio8098it's not a mistake , Catalunya until 1714, was inside the Aragón Crown...but with full self goverment

@c.n.i7105

2 ай бұрын

@@01RAMONATOR Is that so? I believed that those sort of Kingdoms had Councils and such, but that they did respond to Aragon's monarch

@zurikoalablanco1074

2 ай бұрын

That was just a marriage and a political alliance, but Castile and Aragon where two different crowns with their own institutions. Spain appears later, it's difficult to determine when though. I like to think it officially starts in 1833, whit the readministration of the territories and the creation of provinces, abolishing the different institutions and kingdoms inside

@01RAMONATOR

2 ай бұрын

@@c.n.i7105 Catalunya, Valéncia and Mallorca was kingdoms (Principat in Catalunya case), with full independence inside de Aragon, Crown,

absolutely insane video, i now love barcelona even more

Excellent information. Keep these coming.

Thx for this excellent visual explanation of Barcelona’s growth. Outstanding insights not available in one cohesive, concise narrative anywhere else

@BrightTripTravel

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I am from Barcelona. And i have to congratulate you. Great explaining. Just one mistake: you confused Besós and Llobregat position as you swap it... the rest perfect!

Wow. Visited Barcelona last year and now, thanks to this video, a lot of things we noticed finally fall into place. Amazing video!

Great video! It's incredible how much history there's in every detail and every part of the city!

Amazing video! Very accurate and well explained, coming from a barcelona local :)

Loved it! Thanks for you work!

Congrats! as from someone born and bred in Barcelona, I really enjoyed this video

Good effort! A few minor glitches but one of the best concise timelines I’ve seen of this fantastic city.

Thanks a lot for a great video.

As a Barcelonan I can only say congratulations on an amazing job 👏 I learnt from this video things about my city which i did not expect, subscribed, thank you for this!

Being from Barcelona, must say this is such a well made video! Thank you!

@BrightTripTravel

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

As a catalan, thanks to explain really well the story of the map of our capital :)

great work mate ! super detailed and quite accurate

Lovely video, and accurate information. Thanks!

Amazing work, you explain it like a true local

Congratulations. You explained it very well.

Fascinating video about the development of a fascinating city. Tons of research well-presented. I love the place. Gracias Mil ...

Well…home to Picasso,…he lived there for some years but was Born and raised in Malaga (Andalucía) and lived most of his adult life in Paris.

Great video! I'm a Barcelona resident (well, a bit up the coast now) and appreciated the effort you put into this. I look forward to watching your other videos!

@BrightTripTravel

Ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Thia is fascinating, thoughtful and scholarly presented. I am researching the city for my upcoming visit and this is a fantastic intro to the history and the growth of the city.

Amazing video!

Thanks for being so respectful with the catalan society and their history across Barcelona, as well as for the research about the composition of the city. It has been a really enjoyable pleasure to see the video. Good job.

Nice video!

what a high quality & informative video - thank you!!

@BrightTripTravel

Ай бұрын

Yea, that was the goal!

Great video, thanks, and I must say, it’s the first time I really got interested in the company sponsoring the video and I’m very impressed by what they’ve created❤️✊🏻

Amazing video

Super interesting and well done video

LLobregat and besos rivers are swapped in the map

I learnt more from your video than from all the years i lived in barcelona.

I am Spanish and Catalan and I learned more about our history in this video than in school.

@BrightTripTravel

Ай бұрын

Amazing! Love that.

great video!

Fantastic breakdown! It's fascinating how some locations maintain the essence of their original purposes, despite their transformations over time. Places like La Rambla often leave a peculiar aftertaste if you linger too long, and Plaça Espanya has a similar vibe. It’s also intriguing to witness Barcelona embracing Ildefons Cerdà’s visionary urban plan. It’s great to see such recognition for a true mastermind in city planning.

Man! I'm from Barcelona and you nailed it!!

@BrightTripTravel

2 ай бұрын

What a compliment, thank you!

Fantastic video, very well explained and mostly accurate :)) Here's some engagement for the algorithm!!

Fantastic video

Amazing video.

As a catalan, i gotta say thay you almost made no mistakes. I love to see you trying to include catalan ❤

An excellent summary of the urbanistic history of Barcelona. Very accurate, except for the names of the rivers at the beginning of the video 👏👏👏

The way u explain this city, it amazing New cities around the world should look at barcelona plan. 😊

Great video! Earned a gold star by acknowledging your mistake at 13:53

You've done a remarkable job, a few mistakes, but still very accurate and greatly done. You should be proud:)

Although I lived in Barcelona for almost 8 years, I did not know about a lot of interesting things about the past. Thanks for the interesting video.

Also iconic camerawork from the olympic - A lot of sports were filmed with either art or architecture in the background. Segrada Familia was in all pictures from the diving competition.

@BrightTripTravel

2 ай бұрын

Whoa that's amazing. Thanks for sharing!

Increíble, un resum increíble. Tota una feinada, company. Gràcies, i felicitats per la bona feina. Amazing work here, pal. Keep the good work. Surely, this will help lots of people who just came to the city looking for paella... There are so many places to see. All the cities have a long history to be told, thank you for condensing such long history of my city, so beautifully, in less than 20 minutes. A million thanks, company.

An excellent and comprehensive overview of the city, few foreigners get so much right. Allow me to add a few details. - As pointed out elsewhere, the labels on the rivers, the Besos and Llobregat are inverted. - Besides the Parallel running, well, parallel to the Equator, the Meridiana runs perfectly north to south, over an Earth's meridian, hence its name. They were meant to converge on the Port Vell, where the historic clock tower is, but by practical reasons, it misses by a few feet. - The very slim city blocks of the Barceloneta are meant to provide everyone with light an air. This, as you well point out, was better achieved by Cerdá's plan with the hollow city blocks in the Eixample. - BTW, the inside of those blocks are not 'mainly' parking space. There were not many cars when the Plan Cerdá was being mended, they could park in the sidewalk all right, no need for dedicated parking space. What they were destined for was for commercial space. The many stores you see in the Eixample stretch well into the center of the block, providing lots of rental income to the landowners. Some of those commercial spaces were converted to parking, but that was a later adaptation, it was not by design. The roof over the back of the commercial spaces becomes the terrace for the high-end apartments above the store. Notice that at the time, lower floors were better priced than higher ones. - You forgot to mention along the main avenues the Passeig de Gracia, which is Barcelona's equivalent to the Parisian Avenue des Champs-Élysées, with many of the same high-end brands on it. It was the connection from the old town to the town of Gracia, hence its name. - Via Laietana was in no one's plans. It was a later addition because both the Eixample and the port grew a lot, and they needed a connection, thus, needs must. The most significant houses in its way were not demolished but dismantled and re-assembled within the Gothic Quarter, in the area between the Cathedral and Sant Jaume.

@pizzaipinya2442

2 ай бұрын

Great comment and extra info! But you're a bit wrong on the last point. Via Laietana was part of Cerdà's plan, along with a horizontal street cutting all Ciutat Vella and another vertical one cutting through el Raval (those 2 were never built). But yeah, you're right in that it was left aside and recovered later on (1907-1908) because of what you already pointed out :)

Thanks!

@BrightTripTravel

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Barcelona is truly a magnificent city.

To add a bit more to this great video, "ramblas" refer to dry riverbeds that temporarily fill with water after heavy rainfalls. In urban settings, these have been transformed into broad promenades. So, it is not a concept unique to Barcelona; other places, such as Alicante, also have ramblas. Loved the concent!

awesome

Hard flex to have table mountain in the background of the Ad. Cape Town for the win!

Awesome video! As an engineer from Barcelona, I believe you really explained the citt in the besg way possible.

@BrightTripTravel

2 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

TL/DR they're still quite rebellious. Nice shot of table mountain from your balcony :-)

Bon vídeo, bona feina.

"Bullet shaped skyscraper ..." you handle euphemism well

@brighttriptravel you got the two rivers at the start confused -- llobregat is on the left, and Besos, to the right, ;) Great facts!!! Really enjoyed watching this.

i LOVED this. thank you. You did not explain what Eixample meant, but i looked it up lol!

@01RAMONATOR

2 ай бұрын

Eixample means extension...or new suburb

Its funny watching this being there rn

@BrightTripTravel

2 ай бұрын

Whoa, that's cool.

Home ❤

omg love the way you used the catalan independence "plight" to segway into your sponsor video. Pure Capitalist Realism. Just for that i'm subscribing.

Some of yall should clean your ears out. He said the city was/is home to those people, he didn’t say they where born there. Shut up about it everyone knows Messi is from Argentina and Picasso was from Málaga.

Oooo do Casablanca next please🇲🇦

Impressive, thanks for treating us with such respect!

the beSos river being pronounced as Bezos is insane 😭

Could you perhaps try a 'New Delhi's Map, EXPLAINED' video? The octagonal plan of the central city looks interesting and i would love to learn more about its history

Not the last bullfighting arena. Just one of them, but cool video and generally accurate

0:51 the rivers are flipped, Llobregat is in the south(left) and Besòs in the north(right)

super intéressant ! 00:55 : mistake : Rivers are inverted

Congratulations for the video. It's excellent and pretty accurate. Only there's a real mistake at 0:55 about the two rivers near the city

0:54 They are changed, Besos is to the right and Llobregat to the left

Great work! But I am kinda surprised that you haven't mentioned about Hippodamus of Miletus, basically whole reason behind "grids"

Bullet shaped skyscraper. Nice way of putting it 😝

Fun Fact: Eixample means to widen in catalan. So Barri de l'Eixample is the widening quarter

"It's the only avenue that runs parallel to the equator" it's also the only 90 degree angle in the entire country

Nice video! Shame this channel does not get more views...

@BrightTripTravel

2 ай бұрын

Subscribe and share 😊

Do beirut next pls

There are a couple minor mistakes which do not cast a shadow on the accuracy of your presentation. You did a very good and interesting job. 👍

4:19 is that in canary islands? i would love you to do a video about urbanism there. Great video!

The plan of Ildefons Cerdà was not approved by the Central Government! They actually wanted Antoni Rovira i Trias’s plan to keep Catalan population “under control,” as it was easier with one or two central loci than with an equalitarian neighborhood structure. Also, buildings structures proposed by Cerdà were much more spacious than they currently are.

where do you get your paper maps. i would like one of my city

0:57 This graphic broke my brain for a second: you've labelled the rivers wrong! ;)

So much for those courtyards in every building block. Most of the time i just see a fenced off empty concrete area