Former municipalities of Barcelona

The Nueva Planta decrees of the 18th century eliminated the autochthonous governing bodies of Catalonia, based on the representation of the different citizen branches in the Consell de Cent (Council of One Hundred), and they were replaced by absolutist bodies of royal designation.

With the Cadiz Constitution of 1812, the city councils were created as bodies of popular representation and, with them, the municipalities.

Its boundaries also included Montjuïc, the Poble Sec, and most of the territory of the later Eixample, but these were practically undeveloped lands.

[1] Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Barcelona annexed the rest of the municipalities of the surrounding plain.

With substantial differences, the configuration of these former municipalities served to design the ten districts into which the city is currently divided.