Part of the district of Sant Martí and placed at the seaside, the neighbourhood of Poblenou stretches from the Bogatell beach to Avenida Diagonal. With an important industrial past –in the 19th century it was known as the ‘Catalan Manchester’-, the area began its deep transformation with the Olympic Games, and today the change is promoted by the 22@ project in what has been named ‘the district of innovation’.