The Raval is a space of strong contrast as are the global neighbourhoods. The contradictions of our time, the challenges and advances come together in them: from the global wealth, with luxury hotels, commercial and housing gentrification, to food spaces that can house gourmet cuisine such as the adjacent Market of Sant Antoni – recently restores-, the emblematic Market de la Boqueria and the Liceu de Barcelona; to the pressure of speculative investment funds, drug dealers, street prostitution and bags of social exclusion.