Pedralbes

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Pedralbes ({{IPA|ca|pəˈðɾalβəs}}, Old Catalan for white stones) is a neighborhood in Les Corts district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Before the administrative division of 1984, the neighborhood was part of Sarrià and the former municipality of Sant Vicenç de Sarrià.

Pedralbes was the home of the Infanta Cristina of Spain from 2004 to 2013. {{cite web|title=The Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin have put their mansion in Pedralbes up for sale.|url=http://www.typicallyspanish.com/spain-news/barcelona/The_Infanta_Cristina_and_I_aki_Urdangarin_have_put_their_mansion_in_Pedralbes_up_for_sale.shtml|publisher=Typically Spanish|access-date=2013-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051118/http://www.typicallyspanish.com/spain-news/barcelona/The_Infanta_Cristina_and_I_aki_Urdangarin_have_put_their_mansion_in_Pedralbes_up_for_sale.shtml|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}

The Lycée Français de Barcelone, a French international school, is located in Pedralbes."[http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/gente/los-hijos-urdangarin-vuelven-cole-tapadillo-2198174 Los hijos de Urdangarin vuelven al cole de tapadillo]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150122140743/http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/gente/los-hijos-urdangarin-vuelven-cole-tapadillo-2198174 Archive]). El Periódico. Wednesday 5 September 2012. Retrieved on 22 January 2015. "Se supo porque una nube de fotógrafos les esperaba a las puertas del Liceo Francés, en Pedralbes,[...]"

Pedralbes was completely transformed beginning in the 1940s with the urbanisation of the area.{{Cite web|date=2019-04-23|title=Pedralbes, la singularidad hecha barrio|url=https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lescorts/es/el-distrito-y-sus-barrios/el-distrito-y-sus-barrios/pedralbes/pedralbes-la-singularidad-hecha-barrio|access-date=2022-01-08|website=Les Corts|language=es}} Pedralbes is today Barcelona's most upmarket residential area, with large mansions surrounded by gardens, around Avinguda de Pearson, or isolated luxury apartment blocks, around Avinguda de Pedralbes.{{Cite web|date=2018-05-14|title=Historia de Pedralbes|url=https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/lescorts/es/el-distrito-y-sus-barrios/el-distrito-y-sus-barrios/pedralbes/historia-de-pedralbes|access-date=2022-01-08|website=Les Corts|language=es}}