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Highway Infrastructures

  1. Barcelona Olimpica
  2. Olympics'92
  3. The metamorphosis of the city
  4. Highway Infrastructures

As part of the infrastructure investments made for the XXVth Olympiad, a plan to improve access to and mobility in the city was drawn up, the main aim of which was to decongest the highway network. Regarding the city’’s bypasses, the Ronda Litoral and the Ronda de Dalt were opened before the Olympic Games. The former crosses the city along the coast and the latter skirts around the foot of the Serra de Collserola mountain range.

Also completed were the Vallvidrera tunnels, which link Barcelona to the Vallès Occidental region, to the north-west of the second metropolitan ring. An additional stretch of the second Barcelona bypass was built, which links the Vallès Oriental region to Barcelona via the city of Badalona, around which the side roads of the A-19 motorway were widened.

Within the highway improvements, works were also carried out in areas that are quite a long way from Barcelona, but which helped to connect the Olympic sub-host cities. Examples of such works are El Garraf motorway and the Rubí-Terrassa motorway. Lanes were also added to the N-152 highway to Vic, and to the C-150 highway between Girona and Banyoles.

Selected resources

Rentabilidad social de las infraestructuras: las rondas de Barcelona

Riera, Pepe (1993): Rentabilidad social de las infraestructuras: las rondas de Barcelona. Un análisis coste-beneficio. Madrid: Civitas.

Barcelona'92

Holsa (1992): Barcelona’92.  [Barcelona] : Holsa. Barcelona Holding Olimpic SA, 1992

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Infraestructures i mobilitat: els cinturons de Barcelona = Infraestructuras y movilidad: los cinturones de Barcelona

Acebillo i Marin, Josep Antoni (1988): Infraestructures i mobilitat: els cinturons de Barcelona = Infraestructuras y movilidad: los cinturones de Barcelona. Barcelona: Institut Municipal per a la Promoció Urbanística i els JJ.OO.’92.

Port Autònom de Barcelona

Autoridad Portuaria de Barcelona (1992): Port Autònom de Barcelona. Barcelona: Port Autònom de Barcelona.

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Aeropuerto de Barcelona

Aeropuertos Españoles Y Navegación Y Navegación Aérea (1999): Aeropuerto de Barcelona. [S.l.]: Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea.

Les Noves rondes de Barcelona : millora de la xarxa viària

Les Noves rondes de Barcelona : millora de la xarxa viària. Barcelona : [Holsa], 1992

In the repository

In the Municipal Contemporary Archive, you can consult the administrative and management documentation generated on this topic by the Organising Committee Barcelona’92, SA (COOB’92), Holding Olímpic SA (HOLSA), Anella Olímpica de Montjuïc SA (AOMSA) (Olympic ring), Vila Olímpica SA (VOSA) (Olympic village) and the Institut Municipal de Promoció Urbanística SA (IMPUSA) (municipal Institute of urban development).

In the Barcelona Photographic Archive, you can consult the photographic and audio-visual documentation (more than 89000 photographs) generated by the by the Organising Committee Barcelona’92, SA (COOB’92), Holding Olímpic SA (HOLSA), Anella Olímpica de Montjuïc SA (AOMSA) (Olympic ring), Vila Olímpica SA (VOSA) (Olympic village) and the Institut Municipal de Promoció Urbanística SA (IMPUSA) (municipal Institute of urban development).

If you need further information on the collection, read the collection guide.

In the library

In the libraries of the study centres of the Barcelona Olympic Foundation (FBO) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) you can find the selection of listed documents and other bibliographic materials on the subject.

If you are interested in knowing more about our Olympic collection, you can consult the Union Catalogue of Catalan Universities (UAB collection) or contact us by e-mail (FBO collection).

Sports in pictures

If you are interested in images of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Barcelona’92, the Image Service of the Olympic Foundation of Barcelona will help you identify the images that satisfy your needs.

The Foundation manages the official image archive of the Barcelona’92 Games. You can contact them by email to request more information about the services provided and the collection of images. In this page, we offer a selection of images on the event.