<P> La Rambla can be crowded, especially during the height of the tourist season . Its popularity with tourists has affected the character of the street, with a move to pavement cafes and souvenir kiosks . It has also suffered from the attention of pickpockets and especially towards its southern end, sex workers . </P> <P> The Spanish poet Federico García Lorca once said that La Rambla was "the only street in the world which I wish would never end ." </P> <P> La Rambla can be considered a series of shorter streets, each differently named, hence the plural form Les Rambles (the original Catalan form; in Spanish it is Las Ramblas). The street is successively called: </P> <Ul> <Li> Rambla de Canaletes - the site of the Font de Canaletes fountain </Li> <Li> Rambla dels Estudis - the site of the former Jesuit University, whose only remainder is the Church of Bethlehem </Li> <Li> Rambla de Sant Josep (or de les Flors) - the site of an open - air flower market </Li> <Li> Rambla dels Caputxins - the site of a former Capuchin monastery, now dominated by the Liceu opera - house </Li> <Li> Rambla de Santa Mònica - named after the convent of St. Monica, now an arts centre . </Li> </Ul>

Is la rambla the same as las ramblas