Barcelona is commonly known as Spain's major global city because of its role in different money making fields like entertainment, arts, sports and international trade factors. Barcelona has developed itself as one of the major ports of Europe and Spain.
Barcelona in total has a population of about 1,615,908 according to 2008 statistics.
In geographical terms the location of Barcelona is on the Mediterranean Coast, and exactly it is located between two rivers named as Llobregat and Besos. If describing it more, then it is basically located on the north side of the peninsula.
The city of Barcelona is renowned for its museums, grounds and art and architectures. The Barcelona International Airport is the seconds largest in Spain after the one in Madrid.
If we look at the climatic conditions of Barcelona then as it is located on Mediterranean side it has the same climate as expected. The city of Barcelona has very humid and somewhat mild winters, and very dry and hot summers. September - October are the months during which mostly it rains in Barcelona. So basically the rainy season is around late summer, early autumn time. The months of December, January and February are relatively cold.
Barcelona is very rich in parks as in total has 68 parks which are well established and well maintained for the locals, out of these 68, around 10 are history based parks which have even museums inside them. The government of Barcelona has divided these 68 parks into categories, so out of these 68 some are just forests and some are totally related to the subject of botany. Out of all these parks, the largest is "Montjuic".
Among all these parks, Barcelona is enriched in the field of beaches as the city alone has seven beaches. Most of these seven beaches were established and maintained in the year 1992 for the amusement of people who visited Barcelona in 1992 Summer Olympics.
Looking deeper inside Barcelona then one will come to know that, Barcelona is considered as the pioneer of introducing industrial sector in Europe, which started as a textile industry in the beginning.
In the field of Education Barcelona has a number of public universities. Among which most recognized one is the "University of Barcelona", the university has its campuses all in different locations around Barcelona, providing excellent quality education as this university is commonly known for its research department.
The city of Barcelona has many museums and each one of them focuses on different eras and different happenings and events during that particular era. Also some museums focus on arts like the "Barcelona Museum of contemporary Art" focuses totally on the historical Spanish art.
Sports areas cannot be forgotten about. Barcelona as the city itself hosted some of the matches from '82 world cup and also '92 Summer Olympics. Inside Barcelona, there are many sports and clubs of different sports but the most renowned and famous club from Barcelona is "FC Barcelona" of the football league of Spain named as "La Liga". FC Barcelona football club's home ground is located in Barcelona city and named as "Camp Nou".
