Barcelona

1 Demography 2 Areas of BCN 3 Catalan 4 Popular Culture 5 Gastronomy 6 Architecture 7 International and Cosmopolitan city

Demography

ü  Capital of Catalonia

ü  2nd largest city in Spain

ü  4th most populated city in the world

ü  101, 4 Km2 of surface area

ü  1.620.943 residents ( 21,4% of Catalonia’s population)

Man 47%

Woman 53%

0-14 years old 12%

15-64 67%

65-84 17%

85 < 4%

Population by age

Population by sex

Areas of Barcelona

Eixample Sant Martí

Sants- Monjuic Horta- Guinardó

Nou Barris Sant Andreu

Sarrià- Sant Gervasi Gràcia

Ciutat Vella Les Corts

 

Areas of Barcelona

Areas of Barcelona

Eixample Sant Martí

Sants- Monjuic Horta- Guinardó

Nou Barris Sant Andreu

Sarrià- Sant Gervasi Gràcia

Ciutat Vella Les Corts

 

Areas of Barcelona

Eixample Sant Martí

Sants- Monjuic Horta- Guinardó

Nou Barris Sant Andreu

Sarrià- Sant Gervasi Gràcia

Ciutat Vella Les Corts

 

Areas of Barcelona

Eixample Sant Martí

Sants- Monjuic Horta- Guinardó

Nou Barris Sant Andreu

Sarrià- Sant Gervasi Gràcia

Ciutat Vella Les Corts

 

Areas of Barcelona

Eixample Sant Martí

Sants- Monjuic Horta- Guinardó

Nou Barris Sant Andreu

Sarrià- Sant Gervasi Gràcia

Ciutat Vella Les Corts

 

Areas of Barcelona

Eixample Sant Martí

Sants- Monjuic Horta- Guinardó

Nou Barris Sant Andreu

Sarrià- Sant Gervasi Gràcia

Ciutat Vella Les Corts

 

Catalunya  (idioma)   Gothic Quartier Rabal Barceloneta

Barceloneta  

Catalan 36%

Spanish 46%

Both 12%

Other 6%

Catalan ü  Official language

ü  Romanic language, Vulgar Latin

ü  21 dialects

Catalans mostly speak.

IX Cent. First Catalan words on official documents Late IX Cent. Texts fully written in Catalan

Golden Century XV Cent.

Recognized its official character 1932.  

1936. Millitary rebellion (begining of the civil war). Persecution of the language

Law for the Catalan Linguistic Normalisation 1983.

Sardanes Castellers

Sant Jordi

Sant Joan

Barça

­  Rich in a varied selection of ingrediens options

“Mediterranean diet is healthy because is based on equilibrium, not too much of anything”

Ferran Adrià

Gastronomy

­  Eating out is opne of the main leasure activities

Gastronomy

Glorious taste sensation + Lifestyle

­  Vegetarian

Gastronomy

Calçots

Pa amb tomàquet

Escalivada

­  Meat

Gastronomy

Embutits

Butifarra amb mongetes

Escudella i carn d’olla

­  Fish

Gastronomy

Esqueixada

Suquet de peix

Fideuà

­  Desserts

Gastronomy

Crema Catalana

Mel i Mató

Músic

Architecture

Three main styles:

­ Gothic 13-15th centuries

­ Modernist 12-17th centuries

­ Contemporary 20th- Nowadays  

Gothic Architecture

Name: La Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia Cathedral of the Holly Cross and Saint Eulàlia Where: Ciutat Vella. Gothic quarter Period: 13-15th centuries

Name: L’Esglèsia de Santa Maria del Pi Saint Mary of the Pine Tree

Where: Ciutat Vella. Gothic quarter Period: 14 th centuries

Modernist Architecture

Antoni Gaudí" 25th June 1852- 10th June 1926

Catalan architect and figurehead of Barcelona’s modernism influenced in Neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques. ­  Sagrada Família, La Pedrera, Parc

Güell, Caa Milà, La casa de les Punxes, Colonia Güell.

The figurehead of Catalan Architecture

Modernist Architecture

Name: Parc Güell Who: Antoni Gaudí, Jordi Bonet i Armengol Where: Gràcia, La Salut Period: 1900-1914

Name: La Sagrada Família Church of the Holly Familly Who: Antoni Gaudí Where: Eixample Period: 1882- Nowadays

Contemporary Arquitecture

Name: Torre Agbar Who: Jean Nouvel Where: Sant Martí. 22@ Period: 2005

Name: Edifici del Fòrum Forum Building

Who: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron Where: Sant Martí Period: 2004

Interna"onal and Cosmopolitan city

Barcelona is the 16th-most-visited city in the world and the fourth most visited in Europe after Paris, London, and Rome, with several million tourists every year.

Barcelona is a cosmopolitan city, which the Mediterranian opens to the rest of the world.