The Barceloneta is a sailor Barcelona neighborhood built during the eighteenth century and designed by the engineer of Pròsper Verboom in order to accommodate residents in the neighborhood of La Ribera who had lost their homes, demolishing mandated by Philip V to build the Citadel. Its population is 15,428 inhabitants (2005).
The neighborhood of Barceloneta owes its existence to the land to be reclaimed from the sea to absorb the island of Maians.

The district has a triangular shape and is bordered by beaches and the sea, with Spain's Wharf and Port Vell with the neighborhood of La Ribera, France Station and the new Port City Olympics. The structure of urban neighborhood is a good example of the kind of urbanism period of enlightenment, with rectilinear layout of streets and islands of regular houses. The type of housing was the origin of detached houses and plant floor with access to two roads to take optimum airflow. Over the years and speculation, this structure has disappeared and found buildings with heights much higher than those who settled in origin, in addition to the partition of the original housing in halves and quarters floor.