The neighborhood I heart: Clot




Clot has everything that an authentic barrio (neighborhood) is supposed to have. A market, a market square with bars, main street with old buildings named Carrer del Clot, a park built in the place of the factory, where the factory walls are preserved. It also has new blocks, not so pretty, and a street of really old houses, which look forlorn. Clot is a location of Ayuntamiento de Sant Marti, that is a town hall of the city part called Sant Marti which includes several neighborhoods. The square around the hall carries a charm of colonial style (and feels like Cuba to me).

Carrer del Clot, almost Mexican style


Clot used to be not so charming neighborhood just some decades ago. My man moved in here as a child, from a vibrant barrio of Barceloneta. Clot then was partly built with new blocks, partly factories, partly desolate plots – with a gypsy settlement on its outskirts, including donkeys and old-styled life. Since then Clot changed a lot. Many factories disappeared, the streets were uplifted, and now the neighborhood feels cozy though not glamorous or hip like other parts of Barcelona. It used to be a hood where workers lived, and still the population is pretty modest here. And in the hidden corners of Clot you can find strange houses and feel that the time has stopped here.

a very odd street
this corner tells many stories

Then there is a Parque del Clot which deserves a special attention. I will share its images in my next post of the barrio series. Hope, you have enjoyed this walk around my favorite neighborhood 🙂

Do you have your secret neighborhood loves? Have you happened to end up in the non-touristic part of some city and how did you like it? And let me know if you have some favorites in Barcelona!


6 thoughts on “The neighborhood I heart: Clot

  1. Interesting! It certainly does look different than the touristy areas! Oh those little balconies! 😂
    In Paris, my last address was in Levallois-Perret, actually just outside of Paris on the edge! There were never any tourists, just real life. It was a nice little area

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    • It does, it does. Carles commented last night.: “but your pictures, you could choose better. It looks like Cuba!” Me: “but that was the point!” 🙂 I am sure, Clot will change a lot in the future, it is in very sexy location, so it is good to have documented it along the way 🙂
      Oh, a real life of Paris, just those words send me into dreamy tremble! Tell me more, tell me more! How was it? Slow, social, romantic?

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