1992: the Games that turned it to the sea
The 1986 Olympic designation triggered the biggest transformation of the modern city: the seafront factories came down, four kilometers of beaches were created and the Poblenou Olympic village opened. The 1992 Games are remembered as a model of urban regeneration.
The city faces the sea
The industrial waterfront became promenade, Olympic port and beaches: the Barcelona we sell to the world —a city with a beach— was born in those six years of works.
Montjuïc and infrastructure
The Montjuïc Olympic ring, the Palau Sant Jordi and the ring roads changed the city's scale: the Rondas remain the skeleton of Barcelona traffic.
The effect
Hotel rooms doubled within a decade and the city went from industrial destination to world top: today's mass tourism is, in good part, the inheritance of that summer.