Sants is a neighborhood in the southern part of
Barcelona,
Catalonia,
Spain. Formerly an industrial town on the plain bordering Barcelona, known as Santa Maria de Sants, it belongs nowadays to the district of
Sants-Montjuïc and is bordered by the districts of
Eixample to the northeast,
Les Corts to the northwest, and by the municipality of
l'Hospitalet de Llobregat to the south. Although old-fashioned, its name is sometimes still written
Sans in some
Spanish-language sources.