Welcome to Barcelona, Spain
The lovely port city of
Barcelona
mirrors the ebb and flow of Mediterranean history through the ages. Founded by the Romans in the 1st century B.C., a century later it was enjoying great prosperity and had become the provincial capital. With the decline of
Rome
, it was conquered by the Visigoths and later occupied by Muslim armies for a short period. Today
Barcelona
with its l.6m inhabitants is a showplace for museums, architecture, cathedrals, plazas, and culinary delights from the
Mediterranean
.
