Welcome to Barcelona

About the city

Barcelona, besides being the capital of Catalunya, is one of the main cities of the Mediterranean, rooted deeply in history and culture, and at the same time it is one of the most cosmopolitan and avant-garde cities. Home to the 1992 Olympic Games, the city offers both inhabitant and tourist splendor and vibrancy, a city well preserved and cared for down to the smallest of details, a cultural, social and gastronomic paradise.

Barcelona is situated in the north-east of the Iberian peninsula, with the Pyrenean natural border separating it from France to the north, and bordered by the Mediterranean sea to the east, and the autonomous communities of Aragon and Valencia to the west and south. In Barcelona, as in the rest of Catalunya, the are two official language: Catalan, the language of the region, and Spanish, the official language of Spain.