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Barcelona

The Province of Barcelona is one of the four provinces of , centred around the Catalan capital . Dominated by its capital, it features both an extensive Mediterranean coast with many popular beach resorts, as well as a mountain range rising far over 1,000 m in the immediate vicinity of the coast.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Barcelona and Malgrat de Mar.

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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, has a wide variety of attractions that bring in tourists from around the globe.

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is a seaside town on Costa del Maresme. It is popular with visitors from northern Europe who enjoy the hotels and the Mediterranean. Malgrat is also heavily visited in October when the youth soccer competition Costa Brava Cup is on.

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is in Barcelona. The city is known for its industrial past and present, its lively cultural scene, its industrial modernist architecture…

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is a city in , north from and part of its metropolis, along the Mediterranean sea coastline. It has a population of around 220,000 inhabitants, making it one of 's most populated cities.

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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.

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is a city and municipality in the autonomous community of in . It is in the south of the comarca of Vallès Occidental, where it is one of the two capitals, the other being .

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is a city of 129,000 people in . is the birthplace of noucentista architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, who designed the ajuntament and several other notable buildings in the town.

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is in Barcelona, located 57 km from the capital, with a population of 77,558 inhabitants. Positioned in the geographical centre of and in close proximity to the Montserrat Mountain, boasts a significant historical and monumental ensemble, and is a stage in the Catalan Way of St.

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is in Barcelona.The modern city of is a municipality full of interesting places to discover: its squares, markets and shops, represented by the city’s most beloved symbol: La Porxada.

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is a seaside resort some 35 km southwest of in . It is known for its beaches, nightspots, and historical sites. has one of the most vibrant and hippest gay scenes along the coast.

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is in Barcelona. In the north side there is the …

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is a city in Barcelona province. The town has a long history, and experienced an efflorescence during the Romantic period evidenced by a wealth of opulent 19th-century buildings, and its atmospheric town square, the Plaça de la Vila.

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is a city in the inner side of Barcelona in . It has a lot of religious history and is a stage in the Catalan Way of St. James. It's in a depression surrounded by mountains and fog is common.

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is a small city of 64,000 people in the Baix Llobregat region of . With a quiet atmosphere and friendly people, it has the advantage of both a big city and a small town.

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is a town near , Spain. It is located between and , and is on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between and .

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is a city of 41,000 people in Barcelona, and a stage in the Catalan Way of St. James. is the capital and central market of the Anoia comarca, a rich agricultural and wine-producing district.

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is a municipality of 19,000 people in the northern part of Barcelona in Catalonia. It is the tourist capital of the Costa del Maresme and is a cosmopolitan city with a typical Mediterranean climate.

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Sant Boi is a city near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, in the south of , 11 km from the biggest city, . It has a population of 83,000.

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Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat, also known as El Prat, is a major transport hub of the city of and the whole .

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, or simply Vilafranca, is the capital of Alt Penedès county in Penedès, , Spain. It is situated in the Penedès Depression on the left bank of the Foix River, and on the main axis of communication from to and…

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is in Barcelona, the city is really close to , covered by its public transport system and the east part is inside the . Is a minor stage in the Catalan Way of St. James…

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is in Barcelona, and is a stage in the Catalan Way of St. James. It has a huge car factory for SEAT/VW brand.

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is in of . This park has a mosaic of landscapes: ancient forests, bucolic meadows and charming hamlets. You can hike along well-marked trails that wind through centuries-old woodlands, revealing hidden waterfalls and panoramic viewpoints.

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is the capital of the comarca of Berguedà, in the province of Barcelona, , . It is bordered by the municipalities of , , , and .

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is a municipality in the comarca of , , Spain. Since May 2015 it has been the capital of the new comarca of ; previously it was in Bages.

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is a municipality in the province of Barcelona, 43 km from Barcelona, between the municipalities of Arenys de Mar and .

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is a town in the Spanish region of , in the province of Barcelona; about 90 km northwest of the city of , on a hill almost surrounded by the river , a branch of the .

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is a resort city of 3,400 people on the Costa Maresme in Catalonia. The beaches, bays and facilities of the Costa Brava are nearby. It is a laid-back town set between the Mediterranean Sea and the mountainous wooded backdrop of the Massif Montenegre.

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is a small town near Barcelona. It has a population of 7,000 people. It’s on the mountain although the beach is just 8 km away in Gavà. It’s a quiet and beautiful town.

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is a town of 5,600 people in Barcelona and is a stage in the Catalan Way of St. James. The town is near the Formation, a unique geological formation that owes its name to its proximity with the town.

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is a municipality and small town near in . It’s a nice village in the region of the Baix Llobregat, where there are many pine forests to walk around.

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is a municipality in the comarca of in , Spain. It is located on the coast between and . The national highway N-II and a station on the Renfe railway line link to the rest of the coast, while a local road links the town with .

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is a multi-peaked mountain in and part of the . Santa Maria de monastery situated high up in the unusual rock mountain is very popular among Catalans, and Catholic pilgrims come from far and wide to see the Black Madonna.

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is a village in the Province of Barcelona. It has a population of 3,000 people. It's one of the smallest villages in Baix Llobregat.

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is a small town of about 850 people in , . It is a tourist town; nearby destinations include Igualada, the wine route, and the Monastery of Montserrat.

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is a municipality in the comarca of Lluçanès in , Spain. It is situated in the west of the comarca, on a plain between the Lluçanès and Merlès rivers, and is served by the C-154 road between and .

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L'Estany is a municipality in the province of Barcelona and autonomous community of , Spain. The municipality covers an area of 10.25 square kilometres and as of 2011 had a population of 393 people.and the population in 2014 was 407.

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L'Esquirol is in Barcelona and is a stage in the Catalan Way of St. James. L'Esquirol is the natural path or gateway to Collsacabra. Despite its development, it preserves corners of great beauty where tranquility prevails.

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is a natural and historic park in Barcelona of in . It protects the splendid pine forests of the coastal slope, and the holm oak, oak and cork forests of the interior of the massif.

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Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac Natural Park is in Barcelona of . It is made up of the massif of Sant Llorenç del Munt and the Obac range. Its main peaks are Montcau and Mola, where the Romanesque monastery of Sant Llorenç del Munt is located, along with other structures such as lime kilns graves.

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is in Barcelona of . Great views over the sea and of the arid interior lands. The park is well known for its limestone rock landscapes.

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is a park the preserves part of the Serra de Collserola mountains in Barcelona and city.

Barcelona

Latitude of center
41.6667° or 41° 40′ north
Longitude of center
2° east
Population
5,740,000
Elevation
875 metres (2,871 feet)
Geo­Names ID
3128759
Wiki­data ID
Q81949
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Barcelona” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Provinsie Barcelona”
  • Albanian: “Provinca Barcelona”
  • Arabic: “برشلونة”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة برشلونة”
  • Aragonese: “Barzelona”
  • Aragonese: “provincia de Barcelona”
  • Aragonese: “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • Armenian: “Բարսելոնայի պրովինցիա”
  • Asturian: “Barcelona”
  • Asturian: “provincia de Barcelona”
  • Asturian: “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barselona vilayəti”
  • Basque: “Bartzelona”
  • Basque: “Bartzelonako probintzia”
  • Bavarian: “Provinz Barcelona”
  • Belarusian: “Барселона, правінцыя”
  • Belarusian: “Барселона”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Барселона”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Барсэлёна”
  • Bengali: “বার্সেলোনা প্রদেশ”
  • Breton: “Proviñs Barcelona”
  • Bulgarian: “Барселона (провинция)”
  • Bulgarian: “Барселона”
  • Catalan: “Barcelona”
  • Catalan: “BCN”
  • Catalan: “província de Barcelona”
  • Catalan: “Província de Barcelona”
  • Cebuano: “Província de Barcelona”
  • Chinese: “Barcelona Séng”
  • Chinese: “巴塞罗那省”
  • Chinese: “巴塞隆拿省”
  • Chinese: “巴塞隆納省”
  • Chinese: “巴薩隆拿省”
  • Corsican: “pruvincia di Barcellona”
  • Croatian: “Barcelona”
  • Czech: “Provincie Barcelona”
  • Danish: “Barcelona”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Barselona (wılayet)”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Barselona”
  • Dutch: “Barcelona”
  • Dutch: “Provincie Barcelona”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Barcelono”
  • Estonian: “Barcelona provints”
  • Finnish: “Barcelona”
  • Finnish: “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • French: “province de Barcelone”
  • French: “Province de Barcelone”
  • Galician: “Barcelona provincia”
  • Galician: “provincia de Barcelona”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • Georgian: “ბარსელონის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Barcelona”
  • German: “Provinz Barcelona”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία της Βαρκελώνης”
  • Greek: “Περιφέρια της Βαρκελώνης”
  • Gujarati: “બાર્સિલોના પ્રાંત”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Barcelona-sén”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז ברצלונה”
  • Hindi: “बार्सीलोना प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Barcelona tartomány”
  • Hungarian: “Barcelona”
  • Icelandic: “Barselóna-hérað”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Barcelona”
  • Interlingua: “Provincia Barcelona”
  • Interlingua: “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • Interlingue: “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • Irish: “Cúige Barcelona”
  • Italian: “provincia di Barcellona”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Barcellona”
  • Japanese: “ばるせろな”
  • Japanese: “バルセロナ”
  • Japanese: “バルセロナ県”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾರ್ಸಿಲೋನಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Барселона”
  • Korean: “바르셀로나도”
  • Korean: “바르셀로나주”
  • Kurdish: “parêzgeha Barselonayê”
  • Ladin: “Provinzia de Barcelona”
  • Ladino: “Barselona”
  • Ladino: “Provinsia de Barselona”
  • Latin: “Provincia Barcinonensis”
  • Latvian: “Barselonas province”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Provinse Barselona”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Provinse de Barcelona”
  • Lithuanian: “Barselonos provincija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Provënz Barcelona”
  • Macedonian: “Барселона (покраина)”
  • Macedonian: “Барселона”
  • Malay: “Barcelona Province”
  • Maltese: “Provinċja ta‘ Barċellona”
  • Maltese: “Provinċja ta’ Barċellona”
  • Marathi: “बार्सिलोना प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “بارسلون اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Barcelona Séng”
  • Mingrelian: “ბარსელონაშ პროვინცია”
  • Newari: “बार्सेलोना प्रान्त”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prowins Barcelona”
  • Northern Luri: “آستوٙن بارسئلون”
  • Northern Sami: “Barcelona eanangoddi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barcelona”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Barcelona”
  • Norwegian: “Barcelona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barcelona”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “provincia de Barcelona”
  • Ossetian: “Барселонæ (провинци)”
  • Ossetian: “Барселонæ”
  • Ossetian: “Барселонæйы провинци”
  • Pampanga: “Barcelona”
  • Papiamento: “provinsia di Barcelona”
  • Persian: “استان بارسلون”
  • Polish: “Barcelona”
  • Portuguese: “Barcelona”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Barcelona”
  • Russian: “Барселона”
  • Scots: “Barcelona”
  • Scots: “Province o Barcelona”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Barcelona”
  • Serbian: “Покрајина Барселона”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Барселона”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barcelona (pokrajina)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barcelona”
  • Sinhala: “බාසිලෝනා පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Barcelona”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بارسلون اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Barcelona provincia”
  • Spanish: “Barcelona”
  • Spanish: “provincia de Barcelona”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Barcelona”
  • Swedish: “Barcelona (provins)”
  • Swedish: “Barcelona provins”
  • Swedish: “Barcelona”
  • Swedish: “Barcelonaprovinsen”
  • Swedish: “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Barcelona”
  • Tamil: “பார்ஸலோனா மாகாணம்”
  • Telugu: “బార్సిలోనా ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Telugu: “బార్సిలోనా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดบาร์เซโลนา”
  • Turkish: “Barselona ili”
  • Turkish: “Barselona Metropol Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Барселона”
  • Ukrainian: “провінція Барселона”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ برشلونہ”
  • Uzbek: “Barselona”
  • Venetian: “Provincia de Barcełona”
  • Venetian: “Provincia de Barsełona”
  • Vietnamese: “Barcelona”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Provincia de Barcelona”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Barcelona”
  • Western Armenian: “Նահանգ”
  • Western Frisian: “Provinsje Barcelona”
  • Western Frisian: “Provinsje Barseloana”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴塞罗那省”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴薩隆拿省”

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