?City: Barcelona
Country: Spain Autonomous Community: Catalonia
Mayor: Xavier Trias
Area: 803 km2
Population: 5,375,774 citizens?
Language: Spanish and Catalan
Time Zone: UTC+1
Currency: Euro
Visit Barcelona Tourism Official webpage
Located at the Mediterranean sea in the very north of the Spanish coast, it is certainly the most cosmopolitan, progressive and modern city of Spain linked to the rest of Europe for its inspiration and its innovations.
The glorious modernista architecture from Antoni Gaudí with its fascinating and fantastic Sagrada Família, Pedrera, Parc Guëll…spreads all over the city’s streets and avenues and has left its mark on Barcelona. Catalunya and Barcelona have always had a very rich art movement/tradition and are source of some of the greatest modern artist such as Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Dali, Antoni Tàpies and other well known personalities like Victoria Abril (actress), Bigas Luna (director), Pau Casals (musician and composer), Llluis Lllach (singer), Eduardo Mendoza (writer), Manuel Vasques Montalban (writer)…
As the second city of Spain, with its international flair, its mild weather and the beach only a few metro stops away it’s easy to understand why so many foreigners choose Barcelona to live and work.
In a worldwide quality of living survey from the year 2001 by consultants William M. Mercer analysing 218 cities, Barcelona reached position 58 behind other european cities such as Dublin(35), Madrid(44), Birmingham(57) and beyond Lisbon(59), Milan(64), Rome(68), Budapest(72), Prague(74) or Athens (82). While this is a rather bad ranking there are other surveys such as Arthur Andersen and the magazine Fortune which in its 1997 study “Europe’s most improved cities”, placed Barcelona as the third city which has improved most in recent years (after Dublin and Amsterdam). Another study by Healey & Baker 1998 shows that Barcelona has moved from occupying the 13th position in 1992, to consolidate the 6th position in the ranking of the best European cities for locating a business.
About 7% of Barcelona’s total population are foreigners. These 105,118 residents originate to about 49% from North & South America, 22% from Europe, 16% from Asia and 13% from Africa.
Are you looking for new partnerships?
We are recruiting active freight forwarders worldwide to become our business partners
Join Us
