Horta-Guinardó
El Baix Guinardó
If you live here, you live on a flat grid near Sagrada Família, on the streets where fewest residents say they feel unsafe.
A near-rectangular grid built up from the 1950s around Plaça d'Alfons X, with the Parc de les Aigües as its green anchor. It sits on the Blanquerna Health Sciences seam and a few minutes from Hospital de Sant Pau, which makes it the most plausible way into Horta-Guinardó for a student, even though it barely appears in the guides.
Where el Guinardó climbs, el Baix Guinardó stays flat. Two metro lines, the lowest perceived-insecurity share of anywhere in this comparison, and Gràcia adjacency without Gràcia prices.
Our read
The verdict
Best for
Keeping rent down
Feeling safe at night
Quiet streets
Think twice if you want
Nightlife on the doorstep
Having the beach close
Your commute
Your trip to campus.
Explore on the map
Supermarkets here are well above the city norm.
Nearest of each
within 1.2 km
Supermarkets
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ModelledDistances are from the middle of El Baix Guinardó rather than from a specific flat, and venues come from OpenStreetMap, which under-maps small independents, so read a count as a floor rather than a total. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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