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Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, more simply known as Gran Via, is one of Barcelona's major avenues.It crosses all the city proper, stretching from the North-Eastern boundaries of the municipality, bordering Sant Adrià  de Besà²s, to its South-Western limits, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, with some of Barcelona's most important squares in between: Plaà§a d'Espanya, Plaà§a Universitat, Plaà§a Catalunya, Plaà§a de Tetuan and Plaà§a de les Glà²ries Catalanes.

With the Francoist victory after the Civil War, its name was changed to Avenida de José Antonio Primo de Rivera in 1939.

It's over eight kilometres long.The late 19th century urban planner Ildefons Cerdà  included it as an essential part of his draft of the new "Projecte de reforma i eixample de Barcelona" (nowadays simply known as "Pla Cerdà "), as a wide road linking a number of villages around the coastal part of Barcelona, and called it Lletra N, Número 11.

Later on, after the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed in 1931, it was again renamed as Corts Catalanes.

It was renamed Corts in 1900, as a reference to the Mediaeval Corts of Barcelona.

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