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Barcelona Apartments
Barcelona is recognised as a global city because of its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts and international trade.
Barcelona is a major economic centre with one of Europe's principal Mediterranean ports, and Barcelona International Airport is the second largest
in Spain after the Madrid-Barajas Airport (handles about 30 million passengers per year). Founded as a Roman city, Barcelona became the capital of
the Counts of Barcelona. After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, it became one of the most important cities of the Crown of Aragon. Besieged
several times during its history, Barcelona is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination and has a rich cultural heritage.
Particularly renowned are architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech y Montaner that have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
The city is well known in recent times for the 1992 Summer Olympics. The headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean are located in Barcelona.
As the capital of Catalonia, Barcelona houses the seat of the Catalan government, known as the Generalitat de Catalunya; of particular note are the
executive branch, the parliament, and the Supreme Court of Catalonia. The city is also the capital of the Barcelonès Counts.
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Barcelona Cityscape
Parks
The entrance to Gaudí's "Park Güell" Barcelona contains 68 municipal parks, divided into 12 historic parks, 5 thematic (botanical) parks, 45 urban
parks and 6 forest parks. They range from vest-pocket parks to large recreation areas. The urban parks alone cover 10% of the city. The total park
surface grows about 10 ha (25 acres) per year, with a proportion of 18.1 square metres (195 sq ft) of park area per inhabitant.
Of Barcelona's parks, Montjuïc is the largest, with 203 ha located on the mountain of the same name. It is followed by Ciutadella Park
(situated in the place of the old military citadel and which houses the Parliament building, the zoo and several museums), the Guinardó Park, Park Güell,
Oreneta Castle Park, Diagonal Mar Park, Nou Barris Central Park, Can Dragó Sports Park and Poblenou Park and the Labyrinth Park, named after the garden
maze it contains. A part of the Collserolla Park is also within the city limits.
Beaches
Barcelona has seven beaches, totalling 4.5 km (2.8 mi) of coastline. Sant Sebastià and Barceloneta beaches, are the largest, oldest and the most
frequented beaches in Barcelona. The Olympic port separates them from the other city beaches: Nova Icària, Bogatell, Mar Bella, Nova Mar Bella and
Llevant. These beaches (ranging from 400 to 640 m/1,300 to 2,100 ft) were opened as a result of the city restructuring to host the 1992 Summer Olympics,
when a great number of industrial buildings were demolished. At present, the beach sand is replenished from quarries given that storms regularly
remove large quantities of material. The 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures left the city a large concrete bathing zone on the eastmost part of the
city's coastline.
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