Travessera de Dalt is an important and much-transited street in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 (Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Spain

Spain

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). It spans a good deal of the city's district of Gràcia

Gràcia

Gràcia is a district of the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It comprises the neighborhoods of Vila de Gràcia, Vallcarca i els Penitents, El Coll, La Salut and Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova. Gràcia is bordered by the districts of Eixample to the south, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi to the west and...

, starting at the tunnel entrances at Plaça de Lesseps

Plaça de Lesseps, Barcelona

Plaça de Lesseps is a square serving as the border between the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi and Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, loosely divided in two parts...

, and running towards the tunnels system near Plaça Sanllehy, where it changes name and merges into Ronda del Guinardó. It's formally part of the ring road

Ring road

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 Ronda del Mig, which splits into several smaller roads.

Its historical origin is a major road which linked the road to Sant Pere de Ribes

Sant Pere de Ribes

Sant Pere de Ribes is a town in the center of the Garraf comarca , in Barcelona province, Catalonia, Spain. It boasts the remains of a 12th century castle once ruled by the troubadour Guillem de Ribes.-Culture:Main holidays include:...

 with the Madrid

Madrid

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 royal road, bypassing the city of Barcelona, which at the time was much smaller than it is today, pretty much the area of the present day Ciutat Vella

Ciutat Vella

Ciutat Vella is a district of Barcelona, numbered District 1. The name means "old city" in Catalan and refers to the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Barcelona, Spain. Ciutat Vella is nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and the neighborhood called l'Eixample...

. Its current name was decreed by law on January 1 1900. Travessera de Dalt is nowadays also an administrative divide for the Gràcia

Gràcia

Gràcia is a district of the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It comprises the neighborhoods of Vila de Gràcia, Vallcarca i els Penitents, El Coll, La Salut and Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova. Gràcia is bordered by the districts of Eixample to the south, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi to the west and...

 district. South of it lies the central Vila de Gràcia

Vila de Gràcia

Vila de Gràcia , also known as Gràcia, is a neighborhood in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia . This neighborhood was the main core of the old town of Gràcia that included also Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova. It was the center of slave trading for over 200 years....

 neighbourhood, as well as El Camp d'en Grassot i Gràcia Nova. To the north are Vallcarca i els Penitents

Vallcarca i els Penitents

Vallcarca i els Penitents is a neighbourhood in the northernmost part of Gràcia, a district of Barcelona. Locked between two hills, Putget and El Coll, it grew out of a few scattered settlements, namely L'Hostal de la Farigola, Can Falcó, Can Mas and Can Gomis....

 and La Salut

La Salut

La Salut is a neighborhood in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia .-References:...

.

Transport

The metro station Lesseps

Lesseps (Barcelona Metro)

Lesseps is a station in the Barcelona Metro network, named after its location, Plaça de Lesseps, in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, itself named after Ferdinand de Lesseps, who was appointed French consul in 1842....

, on line L3

Barcelona Metro line 3

— Line 3, currently known as Zona Universitària - Trinitat Nova, coloured green and often simply referred to as Línia verda , is a metro line in Barcelona operated by TMB, and therefore part of the fare-integrated ATM transport network of the urban region...

 is located at one of its ends. Station Alfons X

Alfons X (Barcelona Metro)

Alfons X is the name of a Barcelona metro station, located under Ronda Guinardó and Plaça d'Alfons el Savi, named after Alfonso X of Castile, in the Horta-Guinardó district of Barcelona....

 is not far from Travessera de Dalt's other end. When construction of L9

Barcelona Metro line 9

Line 9 is a line of the Barcelona Metro network that is currently under construction, with five stations open in the Santa Coloma de Gramenet suburb since December 2009...

 and L10

Barcelona Metro line 10

Line 10 is the name of one of the two branches of the Barcelona metro extension line 9, currently under construction and to be operated by TMB.-Overview:...

 has been completed the area will be served by both lines, including Lesseps and the future station Sanllehy.