Plaça de Sants (Barcelona Metro)

Plaça de Sants
Plaça de Sants
Barcelona Metro rapid transit station
	L1 platforms
Location	Barcelona (Sants-Montjuïc)
Coordinates	41°22′31″N 2°8′11″E / 41.37528°N 2.13639°ECoordinates: 41°22′31″N 2°8′11″E / 41.37528°N 2.13639°E
Owned by	Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Fare zone	1 (ATM)
History
Opened	1926
Services
Location
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Plaça de Sants is a Barcelona Metro station, named after the nearby , in the Sants-Montjuïc district of the city of Barcelona. The station is served by lines L1 and L5.^[1]^[2]

The line L1 platforms are located below the Carrer de Sants between the and the , and comprise two 88-metre (289 ft) long side platforms. The line L5 platforms are some 200 metres (660 ft) to the west, under the Plaça de Sants between the Carrer de Sants and the , and comprise two 94-metre (308 ft) long side platforms. The two sets of platforms are linked by an underground corridor, and there are six station accesses on the Plaça de Sants and Carrer de Sants.^[1]^[3]^[4]

Plaça de Sants metro station lies some 10 minutes walk from Barcelona's main Sants railway station, which is better served by the Sants Estació metro station on lines L3 and L5.^[1]

The L1 part of the station is on the original section of line L1 (then the Ferrocarril Metropolitano Transversal de Barcelona) between Catalunya and Bordeta stations, which was opened in 1926. The L5 part was opened in 1969, along with the original section of L5 between Collblanc and Diagonal stations.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Plànolbcn" (in Catalan). Ajuntament de Barcelona. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
^ ^a ^b "Track map of the Barcelona Metro". cartometro.com. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
^ ^a ^b "Plaça de Sants (L1)" (in Catalan). trenscat.com. Retrieved 2015-01-20.
^ ^a ^b "Plaça de Sants (L5)" (in Catalan). trenscat.com. Retrieved 2015-01-20.