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Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain after Madrid. With a population of 1.7 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.7 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area of the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid, and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range.
According to tradition, Barcelona was founded by either the Phoenicians or the Carthaginians, who had trading posts along the Catalonian coast. In the Middle Ages, Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona. After joining with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the composite monarchy of the Crown of Aragon, Barcelona, which continued to be the capital of the Principality of Catalonia, became the most important city in the Crown of Aragon and its main economic and administrative centre, only to be overtaken by Valencia, wrested from Moorish control by the Catalans, shortly before the dynastic union between the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1516. Barcelona became the centre of Catalan separatism, briefly becoming part of France during the 17th century Reapers' War and again from 1812 to 1814 under Napoleon.
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760 places to stay in the village's official tourism register.
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760 places to stay
760 places to stay
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754 beds2.7 km from the centre
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658 beds2.3 km from the centre
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531 beds800 m from the centre
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Source: Generalitat de Catalunya · Registre de Turisme de Catalunya (Generalitat de Catalunya, condicions d'ús obertes); OpenStreetMap (teléfonos y webs que el registro no publica) (ODbL); Overture Maps Foundation (teléfonos y webs que el registro no publica) (CDLA-Permissive-2.0). Open data retrieved in October 2026; recent openings and closures may not appear yet.
