Barcelona (esp)

Barcelona

Barcelona ranks 21st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Prague, Seoul, and Copenhagen. Memorable people born in Barcelona include Joan Miró, Montserrat Caballé, and Ramón Mercader. Memorable people who died in Barcelona include Antoni Gaudí, Johan Cruyff, and Montserrat Caballé. Barcelona has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Barcelona is located in Spain.

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. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 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, bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range. Read more on Wikipedia