Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital city of the self-decision gathering of Catalonia in the Kingdom of Spain and furthermore the country's second most swarmed area, with a people of 1.6 million inside city limits.Its urban region increases past the administrative city limits with a masses of around 4.7 million people, being the seventh-most packed urban zone in the European Union after Paris, London, Madrid, the Ruhr locale, Berlin, and Milan.It is the greatest city on the Mediterranean Sea, arranged on the coast between the mouths of the conduits Llobregat and Besòs, and restricted toward the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain run, the tallest top of which is 512 meters (1,680 ft) high. Built up as a Roman city, in the Middle Ages Barcelona transformed into the capital of the County of Barcelona. In the wake of focalizing with the Kingdom of Aragon, Barcelona continued being a basic city in the Crown of Aragon as a productive and administrative point of convergence of this Crown and the capital of the Principality of Catalonia.

 Assaulted a couple times in the midst of its history, Barcelona has a rich social legacy and is today a basic social center and an important vacationer destination. Particularly famous are the auxiliary works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been appointed UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The focal station of the Union for the Mediterranean is arranged in Barcelona. The city is known for encouraging the 1992 Summer Olympics and moreover world-class gatherings and works besides various overall amusement rivalries. Barcelona is one of the world's driving explorer, money related, trade sensible and social centers, and its effect in exchange, preparing, fervor, media, configuration, science, and articulations of the human experience all add to its status as one of the world's major overall urban areas. 

The name Barcelona begins from the old Iberian Barkeno, affirmed in an old coin etching found on the right 50% of the coin in Iberian script as , in Ancient Greek sources as Βαρκινών, Barkinṓn;.Universally, Barcelona's name is for the most part abbreviated as "Barsa" or 'Barça'. Locally, this name suggests just to FC Barcelona, the football club. Neighborhood individuals insinuate the city rather as 'Barna'. 

History 

The reason for the soonest settlement at the site of present-day Barcelona is unclear. The remnants of an early settlement have been revealed in the El Raval neighborhood, including particular tombs and houses to sooner than 5000 BC. The setting up of Barcelona is the subject of two particular legends. The important qualities the building up of the city to the whimsical Hercules. The second legend qualities the foundation of the city particularly to the recorded Carthaginian general, Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, who most likely named the city Barcino after his family in the third century BC,but there is no chronicled or etymological affirmation this is substantial. 

In around 15 BC, the Romans redrew the town as a castrum (Roman military camp) focused on the "Mons Taber", a little incline near the contemporary city entryway (Plaça de Sant Jaume). Under the Romans, it was an area with the surname of Faventia,or, in full, Colonia Faventia Julia Augusta Pia Barcino or Colonia Julia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino. Pomponius Mela notice it among the private groups of the region, likely as it was clouded by its neighbor Tarraco (bleeding edge Tarragona), yet it may be amassed from later researchers that it a little bit at a time created in wealth and result, favored as it was with a brilliant condition and a unimaginable harbor. It acknowledged wellbeing from radiant weights. The city printed its own particular coins; some from the season of Galba survive. 

The Counts of Barcelona ended up being dynamically free and extended their area to fuse all of Catalonia, regardless of the way that on 6 July 985, Barcelona was sacked by the furnished power of Almanzor.The sack was traumatic to the point that by far most of Barcelona's masses was either killed or enslaved.In 1137, Aragon and the County of Barcelona met in dynastic union by the marriage of Ramon Berenguer IV and Petronilla of Aragon, their titles finally borne by emerge person when their youngster Alfonso II of Aragon moved to the position of royalty in 1162. His areas were later to be known as the Crown of Aragon, which vanquished various abroad having a place and managed the western Mediterranean Sea with remote locales in Naples and Sicily and to the degree Athens in the thirteenth century. The assembling of a dynastic association between the Crowns of Aragon and Castile signified the begin of Barcelona's abatement. The Bank of Barcelona, doubtlessly the most settled open bank in Europe, was set up by the city judges in 1401. It began from necessities of the state, as did the Bank of Venice (1402) and the Bank of Genoa (1407). 

Geography 

Barcelona is arranged on the upper east bank of the Iberian Peninsula, standing up to the Mediterranean Sea, on a plain around 5 km (3 mi) wide limited by the mountain extent of Collserola, the Llobregat conduit toward the southwest and the Besòs stream toward the north.This plain covers a region of 170 km2 (66 sq mi),of which 101 km2 (39.0 sq mi)[48] are controlled by the city itself. It is 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of the Pyrenees and the Catalan periphery with France. 

Tibidabo, 512 m (1,680 ft) high, offers striking viewpoints over the city and is topped by the 288.4 m (946.2 ft) Torre de Collserola, a data exchanges tower that is clear from most by far of the city. Barcelona is peppered with little slants, an expansive part of them urbanized, that gave their name to the territories based upon them, for instance, Carmel (267 meters or 876 feet), Putget (181 meters or 594 feet) and Rovira (261 meters or 856 feet). The edge of Montjuïc (173 meters or 568 feet), organized toward the southeast, overlooks the harbor and is topped by Montjuïc house, a post worked in the 17–18th several years to control the city as an exchange for the Ciutadella. Today, the post is a verifiable focus and Montjuïc is home to a couple wearing and social venues, and moreover Barcelona's most noteworthy stop and gardens. 

The city borderlines on the areas of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Sant Adrià de Besòs toward the north; the Mediterranean Sea toward the east; El Prat de Llobregat and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat toward the south; and Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Sant Just Desvern, Esplugues de Llobregat, Sant Cugat del Vallès, and Montcada i Reixac toward the west. The area joins two minimal pitifully involved exclaves toward the north-west. 

Climate 

Barcelona has a Mediterranean atmosphere with smooth, damp winters and warm, dry summers.