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{{Short description|Primary highway in Catalonia, Spain}}
{{Expand Catalan|topic=transp|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox road
|country = ESP
|type    = Autovía
|route   = C-25
|alternate_name = ''Eix Transversal''
|length_km=141
|terminus_a=[[Cervera]]
|junction=
|terminus_b=[[Cassà de la Selva]]
}}
[[File:Eix Transversal.JPG|thumb|Catalonia Transversal road seen from Montfalcó Murallat, Lleida.]]
'''Eix Transversal''' ({{langx|en|Transversal Arterial Road<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gencat.cat/generalitat/eng/govern/infocatalunya/12_infocat/03.htm |title=Modernization of the transport system and social facilities |access-date=2009-05-07 |publisher=InfoCatalunya bulletin of the Generalitat of Catalonia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721052156/http://www.gencat.cat/generalitat/eng/govern/infocatalunya/12_infocat/03.htm |archive-date=2010-07-21 }}</ref>}}; [[Literal translation|lit.]] ''Transversal Axis''), labelled '''C-25''', is a primary [[highway]] in [[Catalonia]], [[Spain]]. It crosses the [[Catalan Transversal Range]] mountainous region, connecting the northern end of the [[Catalan Coastal Depression]] with the [[Catalan Central Depression]].<ref>''L'eix transversal de Catalunya'', by Societat Catalana d'Ordenació Territorial, [[Institute of Catalan Studies|Institut d'Estudis Catalans]]</ref>

According to the current coding for highways managed by the [[Generalitat de Catalunya]], the first number C-'''2'''5 indicates that is mainly a west-eastbound highway, and the second number C-2'''5''' indicates that is the fifth southernmost. The road begins at the intersection with [[Autovía A-2]], near [[Cervera]] (''[[Comarques of Catalonia|comarca]]'' of [[Segarra]]), and finishes at [[Cassà de la Selva]] (''comarca'' of [[Gironès]]), with a total length of 141&nbsp;km.

==History==
The last section of the C-25 to be constructed was finished in December 1997.
The main aims of the construction of this highway were:

* to provide a high-speed alternative way for road traffic between Northeastern [[Catalonia]] ([[Girona]], [[Figueres]], [[La Jonquera]]...) and southern France with Western Catalonia ([[Lleida]], [[Cervera]]...) and [[Aragón]], avoiding the often congested [[Barcelona]] metropolitan region
* to provide a high-speed connection for Central Catalonia's main towns ([[Vic, Spain|Vic]], [[Manresa]], [[Ripoll]], etc.), between them as well as with Northeastern and the Western Catalonia
* generally speaking, to create an "orbital route" in what in those days was mainly a radial network with its center in the city of Barcelona, i.e. a road network radiating out from Barcelona.

Despite these aims, the highway was built as a single-lane road and not as a freeway, and soon it was proved to become insufficient for the traffic supported.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220331203847/http://www.elperiodico.cat/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAT&idnoticia_PK=407225&idseccio_PK=1021 Eix Transversal accumulates almost one death per km during its seven-years life] (in Catalan)</ref>

On 2007 the [[Generalitat de Catalunya]] approved the upgrading of the highway to a freeway, which started on 2008 and is expected to be completed on 2011.<ref>[http://www.gencat.net/acordsdegovern/20070828/02.htm Agreement inside the Generalitat de Catalunya for the starting of the Eix Transversal's upgrade to freeway] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709054424/http://www.gencat.net/acordsdegovern/20070828/02.htm |date=2008-07-09 }} (in Catalan)</ref>

==Exits==
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{{Expand list|date=November 2021}}
{| class="wikitable"
 ! Number !! Destination
|-
! [[File:AB-AS.svg|15px]] 132 
|| Prison of Sant Joan<br>Sant Joan de Vilatorrada ''Centre''<br>Manresa ''University Zone (8th)''<br>Ring roads of Manresa (C-16, C-55, C-25)
|-
! [[File:AB-AS.svg|15px]] 136
|| Santpedor<br>Manresa ''North''<br>Ring roads of Manresa (C-16, C-55, C-25)
|-
! [[File:AB-AS.svg|15px]] 180
|| Vic ''North'', C-17 highway
|-
! [[File:AB-AS.svg|15px]] 182
|| Vic ''Centre''<br>Manlleu
|-
! [[File:AB-AS.svg|15px]] 183
|| Roda de Ter, ''M.O.T. Vehicles Test''
|-
! [[File:AB-AS.svg|15px]] 187
|| Sant Julià de Vilatorta<br>Calldetenes
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Catalan Transversal Range]]
*[[Autovía A-2]]
*[[List of primary highways in Catalonia]]

==References==
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{{Motorways in Spain}}

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[[Category:Motorways in Catalonia|C-25]]