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Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is 's second largest city, with a population of nearly two million people, and the capital of . A major port on the northeastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, Barcelona has a wide variety of attractions that bring in tourists from around the globe.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Ciutat Vella and Eixample.

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is, as its name suggests, the oldest part of Barcelona. Centred along the Las Ramblas boulevard, it includes Barcelona's old port as well as parts built from the early Middle Ages to mid-19th century.

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The is the quarter designed during the middle of the 19th century by Ildefons Cerdà, expanding the medieval city of Barcelona into space left empty for defence outside the city walls.

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is a district of Barcelona and is the most distinctively Catalan neighbourhood within easy walking distance of the city centre. It was an independent town before it joined the city in the 20th century.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Sants-Montjuïc and Sant Martí.

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is a district in the southwest of Barcelona. Many of its attractions focus on the Parc de Montjuïc, which has museums, a castle, Olympic facilities and some great views overlooking the city.

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is a district in Barcelona which extends north of the . Developed from the former industrial areas of Poblenou, medieval district of Clot and suburbs of , it became a place of large-scale ambitious urban redevelopment.

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The are the districts that ring the main part of Barcelona. To the southwest, it includes Les Corts and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, and to the northwest it includes Horta-Guinardo, Nou Barris and Sant Andreau.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Palau de la Música Catalana and Olympic Stadium Lluís Companys.

Theater building
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is a concert hall in Barcelona, , . Designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença.

Stadium
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Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium, also known as Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, formerly known as the Estadi de and Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc and also known in English as the Barcelona Olympic Stadium, is a in Barcelona, .

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is considered the most well known street in central Barcelona. A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 kilometres connecting the in its center with the at .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include L’Hospitalet de Llobregat and Les Corts.

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L'Hospitalet de Llobregat isn’t a beautiful city. It’s a "bedroom town" southwest of Barcelona. It's the second biggest in Catalonia by population. It's important for being one of the most dense cities in Spain and also in the European Union.

Suburb
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is one of the ten districts of the city of Barcelona in the Spanish autonomous community of . It was a free territory tied to the crown, and became the autonomous municipality of de Sarrià in 1836.

Quarter
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La Nova Esquerra de l'Eixample is a neighborhood in the district of Barcelona, . Originally it formed a single unit, called Esquerra de l'Eixample, with the current neighborhood .

Barcelona

Latitude
41.3758° or 41° 22′ 33″ north
Longitude
2.1778° or 2° 10′ 40″ east
Population
1,690,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
BCN
United Nations Location Code
ES BCN
Open location code
8FH495GH+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 152364165
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3128760
Wiki­data ID
Q1492
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Barcelona” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Barcelona”
  • Albanian: “Barcelona”
  • Amharic: “ባርሴሎና”
  • Arabic: “برشلونة”
  • Aragonese: “Barcelona”
  • Aragonese: “Barna”
  • Aragonese: “Barzelona”
  • Aragonese: “BCN”
  • Aragonese: “Ciudat condal”
  • Armenian: “Բարսելոնա”
  • Arpitan: “Barcelona”
  • Asturian: “Barcelona”
  • Aymara: “Barcelona”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barselona”
  • Balinese: “Barcelona”
  • Bambara: “Barcelona”
  • Bashkir: “Барселона”
  • Basque: “Barcelona”
  • Basque: “Bartzelona”
  • Bavarian: “Barcelona”
  • Belarusian: “Барселона”
  • Belarusian: “Барсэлёна”
  • Bengali: “বার্সেলোনা”
  • Bishnupriya: “বার্সেলোনা”
  • Bislama: “Barcelona”
  • Bosnian: “Barcelona”
  • Breton: “Barcelona”
  • Bulgarian: “Барселона”
  • Burmese: “ဘာစီလိုနာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “B’na”
  • Catalan: “Barcelona”
  • Catalan: “Barna”
  • Catalan: “BCN”
  • Catalan: “Can Fanga”
  • Catalan: “Cap i Casal”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat Comtal”
  • Catalan: “Rosa de Foc”
  • Cebuano: “Barcelona”
  • Central Bikol: “Barcelona”
  • Central Kanuri: “Barcelona”
  • Central Kurdish: “بارسێلۆنا”
  • Chavacano: “Barcelona”
  • Chechen: “Барселона”
  • Cheyenne: “Barcelona”
  • Chinese: “Barcelona”
  • Chinese: “巴塞罗那”
  • Chinese: “巴塞羅那”
  • Chinese: “巴塞隆拿”
  • Chinese: “巴塞隆納”
  • Chinese: “巴薩隆拿”
  • Chuvash: “Барселона”
  • Cornish: “Barcelona”
  • Corsican: “Barcellona”
  • Corsican: “Barcelona”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Barselona”
  • Croatian: “Barcelona”
  • Czech: “Barcelona”
  • Dagbani: “Barcelona”
  • Danish: “Barcelona”
  • Danish: “Barna”
  • Danish: “BCN”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Barselona”
  • Dutch: “Barcelona”
  • Dutch: “Stad Barcelona”
  • Eastern Mari: “Барселона”
  • Eastern Mari: “Барселоно”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بارسلونا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برشولنه”
  • Erzya: “Барселона ош”
  • Esperanto: “Barcelona”
  • Esperanto: “Barcelono”
  • Estonian: “Barcelona”
  • Extremaduran: “Barcelona”
  • Faroese: “Barcelona”
  • Fijian: “Barcelona”
  • Finnish: “Barcelona”
  • French: “Barcelona”
  • French: “Barcelone”
  • French: “BCN”
  • French: “Ville de Barcelone”
  • Galician: “Barcelona”
  • Galician: “Cidade condal”
  • Galician: “Cidade de Barcelona”
  • Georgian: “ბარსელონა”
  • German: “Barcelona Stadt”
  • German: “Barcelona”
  • German: “Stadt Barcelona”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Barcelona”
  • Gilaki: “بارسلؤنا”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌸𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍉𐌽𐌰”
  • Greek: “Βαρκελώνη”
  • Guarani: “Barcelona”
  • Gujarati: “બાર્સિલોના”
  • Haitian: “Baselòn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Barcelona”
  • Hausa: “Barcelona”
  • Hawaiian: “Barca”
  • Hebrew: “ברצלונה”
  • Hindi: “बार्सिलोना”
  • Hindi: “बार्सॆलोना”
  • Hungarian: “Barcelona”
  • Icelandic: “Barcelona”
  • Icelandic: “Barselóna”
  • Ido: “Barcelona”
  • Iloko: “Barcelona”
  • Inari Sami: “Barcelona”
  • Indonesian: “Barcelona”
  • Interlingua: “Barcelona”
  • Interlingue: “Barcelona”
  • Irish: “Barcelona”
  • Irish: “Cathair Barcelona”
  • Italian: “Barcellona”
  • Italian: “Barcelona”
  • Italian: “Città di Barcellona”
  • Japanese: “バルセロナ”
  • Javanese: “Barcelona”
  • Kabyle: “Barseluna”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾರ್ಸಿಲೋನಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾರ್ಸೆಲೋನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Barselona”
  • Kashubian: “Barcelona”
  • Kazakh: “Барселона”
  • Kirghiz: “Барселона”
  • Kongo: “Barcelona”
  • Korean: “바르셀로나”
  • Kurdish: “Bajarê Barselona”
  • Kurdish: “Barselona”
  • Ladin: “Barcelona”
  • Ladino: “Barselona”
  • Lao: “ບາກເຊໂລນ”
  • Latin: “Barcino”
  • Latvian: “Barselona”
  • Lezghian: “Барселона”
  • Ligurian: “Barçellonn-a”
  • Ligurian: “Barçelónn-a”
  • Limburgan: “Barcelona”
  • Lingala: “Barcelona”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Barselona”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴塞羅那”
  • Lithuanian: “Barselona”
  • Livvi: “Barcelona”
  • Lombard: “Barcelona”
  • Low German: “Barcelona”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Barcelona”
  • Luxembourgish: “Barcelona”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Barcelona”
  • Macedonian: “Барселона”
  • Maithili: “बार्सिलोना”
  • Malagasy: “Barselona”
  • Malay: “Barcelona”
  • Malayalam: “ബാർസലോണ”
  • Malayalam: “ബാഴ്സലോണ”
  • Maltese: “Barċellona”
  • Marathi: “बार्सिलोना”
  • Marathi: “बार्सेलोना”
  • Mazanderani: “بارسلون”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “برشلونة”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Barcelona”
  • Mingrelian: “ბარსელონა”
  • Mirandese: “Barcelona”
  • Moksha: “Барсэлона”
  • Mongolian: “Барселон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “برصلونة”
  • Narom: “Barcelona”
  • Nauru: “Barcelona”
  • Neapolitan: “Barcellona”
  • Nepali: “बार्सिलोना”
  • Newari: “बार्सेलोना”
  • North Levantine Arabic: “برشلونة”
  • Northern Frisian: “Barcelona”
  • Northern Sami: “Barcelona”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barcelona”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barcelona”
  • Norwegian: “Barcelona”
  • Novial: “Barselona”
  • Nyanja: “Barcelona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barcelona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “BCN”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat de Barcelona”
  • Oriya: “ବାର୍ସିଲୋନା”
  • Ossetian: “Барселонæ”
  • Paiwan: “barcelona a lizuk”
  • Pampanga: “Barcelona”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਰਸੀਲੋਨਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਰਸੀਲੋਨਾ‎”
  • Papiamento: “Barcelona”
  • Papiamento: “Siudat di Barcelona”
  • Persian: “بارسلون”
  • Picard: “Barcelona”
  • Piemontese: “Barslon-a”
  • Polish: “Barcelona”
  • Portuguese: “Barcelona”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Barcelona”
  • Pushto: “بارسلونا”
  • Quechua: “Barcelona”
  • Romanian: “B’na”
  • Romanian: “Barcelona”
  • Romanian: “BCN”
  • Romansh: “Barcelona”
  • Russia Buriat: “Барселона”
  • Russia Buriat: “Барселоно”
  • Russian: “Барселона (город)”
  • Russian: “Барселона (Испания)”
  • Russian: “Барселона (Каталония)”
  • Russian: “Барселона”
  • Russian: “город Барселона”
  • Sakizaya: “Pa-say-long-na”
  • Samogitian: “Barseluona”
  • Sanskrit: “बार्सेलोना”
  • Sardinian: “Bartzellona”
  • Scots: “Barcelona”
  • Scots: “BCN”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Barcelona”
  • Serbian: “Барселона”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barcelona”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barselona”
  • Sicilian: “Barcillona”
  • Silesian: “Barcelůna”
  • Sindhi: “بارسلونا”
  • Sinhala: “බාසිලෝනා”
  • Sinhala: “බාසිලෝනාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Barcelona”
  • Slovak: “Barcelona”
  • Slovenian: “Barcelona”
  • Slovenian: “Mesto Barcelona”
  • Somali: “Barcelona”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بارسلونا”
  • Spanish: “Barcelona”
  • Spanish: “Barcino”
  • Spanish: “Barna”
  • Spanish: “BCN”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad condal”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Condal”
  • Spanish: “la Ciudad Condal” (historical)
  • Sranan Tongo: “Barcelona”
  • Swahili: “Barcelona”
  • Swedish: “Barcelona”
  • Swiss German: “Barcelona”
  • Tachelhit: “Barsaluna”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Barcelona”
  • Tahitian: “Barcelona”
  • Tajik: “Барселона”
  • Talysh: “Barselona”
  • Tamil: “பார்செலோனா”
  • Tatar: “Барселона”
  • Telugu: “బార్సిలోనా”
  • Thai: “บาร์ซาโลนา”
  • Thai: “บาร์เซโลนา”
  • Tibetan: “བྷར་སེ་ལོ་ནཱ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Baselona”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Barcelona”
  • Tswana: “Barcelona”
  • Turkish: “Barcelona”
  • Turkish: “Barselona”
  • Turkmen: “Barselona”
  • Twi: “Barcelona”
  • Udmurt: “Барселона”
  • Uighur: “Barsélona”
  • Ukrainian: “Барселона”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Barcelona”
  • Urdu: “برشلونہ”
  • Uzbek: “Barselona”
  • Venda: “Barcelona”
  • Venetian: “Barcełona”
  • Veps: “Barselon”
  • Vietnamese: “Barcelona”
  • Vlax Romani: “Barcelona”
  • Volapük: “Barcelona”
  • Võro: “Barcelona”
  • Walloon: “Bårçulone”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barcelona”
  • Welsh: “Barcelona”
  • Western Armenian: “Պարսելոնա քաղաք”
  • Western Armenian: “Պարսելոնա”
  • Western Frisian: “Barcelona”
  • Western Frisian: “Barseloana”
  • Western Panjabi: “بارسیلونا”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴塞罗那”
  • Yakut: “Барселона”
  • Yiddish: “בארצעלאנע”
  • Yiddish: “באַרצעלאָנע”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴薩隆拿”
  • Zhuang: “Barcelona”
  • “Barcelona”
  • “Barcelóna”
  • “Barseluona”
  • “ma tomo Paselona”

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