Barcelona Sants is the main railway station in Barcelona, owned by Adif, the railway infrastructure agency of Spain. It has become the most important transport hub of the city - being the centre of Rodalies de Catalunya including Barcelona suburban railway services and regional services, as well as the main inter-city station for national and international destinations. The station is named after Sants, the neighbourhood of Barcelona in which it is located. New parts of the station have recently been remodeled to accommodate the Spanish high-speed train AVE in the city, which started serving the city on 20 February 2008. There is also an adjacent international bus station bearing the same name, and a link to the Sants Estació metro station that serves the railway station.

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Barcelona Sants
The station's main façade in 2010
General information
Location	Plaça dels Països Catalans 08014 Barcelona Spain
Coordinates	41°22′44″N 2°08′24″E
Owned by	Adif
Operated by	Renfe Operadora and SNCF
Line(s)	Madrid–Barcelona (PK 677.9) Lleida–Manresa–Barcelona (PK 186.5) Madrid–Barcelona–Figueres (high-speed) (PK 621.0)
Platforms	7 island platforms
Tracks	14 6 standard gauge high-speed 8 Iberian gauge regional/local
Connections	Barcelona Metro: at Sants Estació Adjacent bus station Local bus
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Parking	Adjacent parking garage.
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	71801 (Adif)
IATA code	YJB
History
Opened	18 July 1975 (1975-07-18)
Passengers
2018	46,511,388 ()[1]
Rank	2[2]
Services
Preceding station Ouigo España Following station Camp de Tarragona towards Madrid Atocha Madrid to Barcelona Terminus
Location
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The modern Sants station was built in the 1970s as part of construction of the second east–west regional line running under the centre of Barcelona. The first east–west railway to Estació de França terminus, more to the north,^[3] was covered up and is now also in use as a railtunnel for the regional and long-distance trains. Over the last 30 years, Estació de Sants has since eclipsed the earlier França terminus (Barcelona Estació de França), from the 1920s, as Barcelona's main railway station.

The station was built in a modern airport style, with all of its many platforms sited underground. A hotel (Hotel Barceló Sants) occupies most of the upper floors of the station's main building.

The station is in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona, a little way to the west of the city centre, and is easily accessible via metro (see section below) or bus from anywhere in the city. Sited at the end of Avinguda Roma between two squares, Plaça dels Països Catalans and Plaça Joan Peiró, it has two entrances, one in each.