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Free video about Barcelona City. This video was created for you by http://epsos.de and can be re-used for free under the creative commons license with the attribution of epSos.de as the original author of this Barcelona City video. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !! Barcelona is a city and metropolis on the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian peninsula. It is the capital of Catalonia, being so much as the autonomous region of the province of Barcelona City and the region of Barcelonès and the second city in population and economic weight in Spain and Iberian peninsula. According to The European City Brand Barometer strength of the brand "Barcelona City" is in third position along with Munich and behind Paris and London. It is in the fourth position of the ranking of best cities for business and hotel rooms in fifth position in organizing conferences, first in cruise passengers and sixth in rental price of industrial land. Barcelona City Currently there are 10 beaches, the best known are the beach of San Sebastian and Barceloneta, in the middle of both the beach in San Miguel. The large recovery of the seafront Barcelona City did not start until they organize the 1992 Olympic Games. Although Barcelona City is not a city known for having large skyscrapers, it is true that in recent years, particularly after the 1992 Olympics, some have been built. The Barcelona City architecture has evolved parallel to the rest of the Catalan architecture and has followed different ways the many trends that have been taking place in the context of art history western. Throughout its history, Barcelona City has hosted different cultures and civilizations, which have brought their concept of art and have left their legacy for posterity from the first settlers Iberians, through colonizing Romans, the Visigoths and briefly Islamic, to the rise in the average age of the art, the Catalan language and culture, with a first period of splendor for the Catalan art. Barcelona City, ​​with a population of about two million inhabitants, is the most important town in the area of Catalonia demographic, political, economic and cultural. It is the seat of the Government of Catalonia and the Parliament of Catalonia and of the Council and of the archdiocese, and has a port, an airport and a network of railways and roads. The city has a long and rich architectural history, starting with the oldest remains of the Roman settlement founded by Barcelona City, ​​whose only remains archaeological fragments scattered, for example, to the columns of the Temple of Augustus in building Hiking Centre of Catalonia. Barcelona City is known as the capital of modernism, the large number and quality of works possessed with jewels the Hospital de Sant Pau and the Palace of Catalan Music by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, or Palau Macaya by Josep Puig, but certainly the most famous and renowned modernist architect is Antoni Gaudi. Open Mediterranean, Barcelona is also a city where culture and art are important and indisputable weight. Among the most important art forms have in the city, is the craftsmanship. Barcelona City has a number of museums, which cover different areas and eras. In total there are 92 facilities together museums and collections. Barcelona City was considered the third most polluted city in Europe from a 2005 study by the World Health Organization on the solid particles in suspension. Barcelona City had 55 micrograms per cubic meter of these particles. Barcelona City has experienced in recent years a strong increase in the use of renewable energy, mainly thanks to the opening of the Ecopark Barcelona City and the Garraf landfill that produce energy from biogas. Barcelona City has also been an important point for the gay community across Europe and worldwide. The local gay predominantly located in the Eixample district have allowed a list drawn up in 2008 by the newspaper The Independent puts Barcelona City as one of the ten cities most gay-friendly in the world, being the only in Spain. The Port of Barcelona City is one of the ports most important Mediterranean. It is the leading port in cruises in Europe. The transit company in Barcelona City Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona City (TMB) manages the bus, the Barcelona City metro, a bus tour, the Montjuïc funicular, the cable car and the blue tram. More recently there are several lines of trams modern as Trambaix and Trambesòs. Barcelona City also has a network of trains connecting the city with the metropolitan area and the rest of Catalonia and Spain. Since 2007 there is a public bicycle sharing with the name of Bicing. Thank you for supporting the creative commons movement !!