Barcelona is a two thousand-year-old city. Its whole past is projected into its present; in its buildings and streets the story of its growth from ancient times is clearly written. It is the essentially maritime capital of a people of merchants and sailors. In short, a Mediterranean city.

Its unrivalled location and beauty are matched by the friendliness of its people. Its tradition of initiative, hard work and creativity is largely the product of the repeated influxes of foreign blood that are the lot of all cosmopolitan, hospitable, open-minded cities, and these factors also account for the vitality of its population and for its rich cultural and artistic heritage.

Barcelona is a multi-coloured, vital city, that changes with the light as the hours go by and fluctuates with the seasons. It is a social mosaic, all of whose pieces bear the imprint of the slow historical process that has made it unique. The city has always been on the cutting edge of fashion, architecture, food, style, music and good times in general.

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