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Barcelona

Barcelona City Web Site

Located in the northeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean coast between the rivers of the Estuarine and Bezios Lobregat.

About 160 km from the Pyrenees is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid and the regional capital of Catalonia.
Barcelona province with a population of about 1.6 million people, the population of the city suburbs Viady four million people. Held the Olympic Games in 1992.



According to some myths that Hamlessar Parsa's father founded the city of Hannibal Barsenau in the place where the Barcelona today in the fifteenth century BC, when the Romans took the fortress from the region or camps of the armies of the state.
In the early fifth century AD occupied the area by the Visigoths and Saracens in the eighth century AD However, Louis the Pious son of Charlemagne was able to seize the city in AD 801 and remained Barcelona under Christian rule until 985 AD when restored Abu Amer Mansour A powerful rulers of Andalusia Muslims.



The rulers of Barcelona after the Islamic period worked to expand the county of Barcelona, the occupation of the Balearic islands of the surrounding areas and the city of Valencia and founded what was known as the Kingdom of Aragon, which seized control of large parts of the Mediterranean during the thirteenth century AD and arrived in the cities than in Kotheina.

City was destroyed completely after the decline of Catalan Republic also destroyed in the reign of the Spanish Wars in 1714.
King Felipe V of Spain demolished neighborhood merchants in the city to build a military base as part of the punishment of the city that arose on his rule.
Prevention and talk Balkatlonip prevent teaching at the university, which opened in 1450.
Followed the French city of the empire during the reign of Napoleon after the French occupied Spain and put Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, the ruler of the occupied parts of it.
And freed the Spanish occupied areas after the fall of Napoleon.

During the nineteenth century the city grew during the industrial revolution, as has been the center of many commercial industries. During that period when the weakened authority of the Madrid city Barcelona, the population of the city to demolish the wall of the building in the Middle Ages, as well as Fort Alribeira been converted into a public park.

With the beginnings of the twentieth century, the Nationalists Alkatlonion a call for autonomy for Spain and demand the lifting of the ceiling of freedoms in the region Alkatloni.
FC Barcelona and my father is one of the top in the world.


Barcelona is the most famous landmarks

Seaport

Holy Family Church or Sagrda Familia was the beginning of construction in 1882 did not stop construction so far.

Gul Park

It is interesting that they're in the construction of the park they use what is left of the building materials city arose such a beautiful park where erected on top of a mountain which you can see the whole city.

National Museum

Which was the seat of the Caliph al-Mansur, but was blur and turn it into a national music museum.

And many other landmarks of the city of Barcelona has made the most important and most beautiful cities of Europe, in addition to the excellent climate and its strategic position in Europe.