Barcelona

Barcelona .. 

  Barcelona is located in the northeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean coast between the rivers Estuarine Obriggatopizios. , About 160 km from the Pyrenees is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, the capital of the province of Barcelona and Catalonia. A population of about 1.6 million people while the population of the city suburbs Viady four million people ... 

 

Where the Olympic Games were held in 1992. Currency traded currency is the euro single currency Spain between all the countries of the European Union The language circulating in Barcelona is the Spanish language and the language or dialect of Catalan Barcelona are considered as already mentioned, and the second most important after the Spanish cities of Madrid and the second space and is the city's first tourist in Spain, and is one of the most beautiful cities in Spain and Europe, is its port is the most important port on the Mediterranean Sea and a lot of old buildings and lies mostly in the Gothic Quarter, and the city is famous for the presence of a large number of museums and markets, highlighting the Gothic Quarter Pkatdraúath large and ancient his municipality as well as the work of the architect Antonio Gaudi World, who left Barcelona in the finest buildings such as the Cathedral of the Holy Family, which did not end rebuilt .. 

 

Some legends say that (Hamlessar Parsa) and Hannibal's father founded the city of Barcelona in the place where Barcelona today, but this is not installed historically regarded as a mere myth. In the fifteenth century BC, the Romans took the fortress of the region or the camps of the armies of the state. In the early fifth century AD, took control of the region Visigoths immigrants to the Iberian Peninsula and then Saracens in the eighth century AD, however, Lewis Ben Charlemagne was able to open the city in 801 and remained Barcelona under Christian rule until the year 985, when opened again Muslim leader Muhammad ibn Abi Amer Mansour was recoverable by the Iberians rulers of Catalonia in 1137 AD. Rulers of Barcelona after the Islamic period worked to expand the county of Barcelona recover neighboring regions of Andalusia Balearic Islands and the city of Valencia and founded what was known as the Kingdom of Aragon, which seized control of large parts of the territory of the Mediterranean basin during the thirteenth century, and reached for the cities in the latest Kothena. City was destroyed during the reign of the Spanish Wars in 1714, where King Philip V of Spain demolished neighborhood merchants in the city to build a military base as part of the punishment of the city, which erupted against his rule. Prevent speak Catalan and prevent the teaching in the university, which opened in 1450 ... 

 

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