Barcelona

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Barcelona is a city in Spain and is the capital of Catalonia autonomous region. Established in 230 BC, the city serves as a living gallery of architecture and the modernist-style decor and Art Nouveau (New Art). The temples and buildings works of architect Antoni Gaudí, medieval churches, Roman walls and the rest of the plaza as well as where people walk, they seem special. Called "Parisnya Spain" by Hans Christian Andersen on the beauty and rich cultural heritage, Barcelona regain glory through new autonomy status and the cultural acceptance of Catalonia in the Spanish Empire.

The number of residents in the downtown area is 1,583,000 inhabitants (2003). Together with the area around the town, population amounted to 4,042,000 inhabitants (2000). Residents in the metropolitan area (city and satellite towns) is 4,667,000 (2003). The total area is 100.4 km ² and the density is 15.764/km ² (2001).

Geography

Facing the Mediterranean Sea south east, but as if to say 'run away from the sea' because of its architecture was centered on terkemukanya port. City lowlands bordered besos Rio, Rio Llobregal and a half surrounding mountains.

History
Since its beginnings as a Phoenician trading port and the Cartagena, Barcelona developed into a religious center during the Visigoth occupation between the 5th century until the 6th century. After the city was taken over from the Visigoths by the forces of Islamic Moors in 717, and then by the Franks Coligian in 801 years, and the forces of al-Mansyur kekholifahan Umayyads in 985, the lords of power and unite arrange Catalonia with Aragon, making Barcelona back into the city a special trade.

Barcelona lose their power when Naples became the capital of Catalan-Aragonese monarchy in 1442, and fell again with the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the Mediterranean. Prince Charles III of Austria was allowed to establish a court in Barcelona in 1705, after the War of Spanish Succession to the throne sat Spain. Barcelona had prospered along with the development of cotton industry after Felipe V of Spain took the title in 1714.

After the Black Death (infectious disease) outbreaks in the 14th century and 15, the repressive government of Felipe V and his successor Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in the 19th century, the city must deal with internal struggles in the 20th century. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, the Republic surrendered to the Spanish Catalan.

Since the 1970s, when the Catalan language and culture officially recognized Spain, Barcelona has an important position in the international world. In 1980, formed an autonomous government in Catalonia. In 1992, the Olympics, and charm, and friendliness of the residents, nearly 2 million people, managed to capture the attention of the world.

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