We will make a brief tour of the History of Barcelona City, as a summary. If you come to visit the so-called Ciudad Condal, you will surely be interested in knowing a little about the History of Barcelona, and given that we are a metropolis with a very broad - and rich-history, we are going to explain some of the most important and transcendental facts that have led Barcelona to become the city that it is today.

The current Barcelona was founded with the name of Barcino, at the end of the first century BC, as a Roman colony. It had about a thousand inhabitants and was surrounded by a defensive wall of which remains are still preserved in the old town.

For more than two hundred years, Barcelona was under Muslim rule, and with the Christian reconquest it became a county of the Carolingian Empire and the habitual residence of the Crown of Aragon.

The fruitful medieval period turned Barcelona into an economic and political centre of the western Mediterranean. The Gothic Quarter of the city is the precious witness of the splendour that Barcelona lived from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.

From then until the eighteenth century, Barcelona experienced a certain decline while struggling to maintain its economic and political independence. In 1714, this struggle culminated in the fall of the city into the hands of Bourbon troops.

Barcelona City

That year meant the loss of the rights and privileges of Catalonia and the Catalans.

In the mid-nineteenth century, with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and the development especially of the textile sector, a stage of cultural recovery began.

This is the Renaixença, a period in which the Catalan language was renewed as a literary language.

The twentieth century also inaugurated an important urban transformation in the city of Barcelona that culminates with its characteristic Eixample District, where some of the most distinctive Catalan modernism buildings in Barcelona are located.

One of the most outstanding architects of this period was the Catalan Antoni Gaudí, author of works as internationally known as Casa Milà (or Pedrera), Casa Batlló or the temple of the Sagrada Familia.

Gaudi and Barcelona City

The freedoms achieved during this period were curtailed during the Civil War in 1936 and the dictatorship.

With the restoration of democracy in 1978, Barcelona regained its strength over the economy and Catalan.

The celebration of the Olympic Games in 1992 meant the revitalization of all its potential of Barcelona and the reaffirmation of its capital and is undoubtedly a milestone in the History of the city.

After the Olympic Games, the Forum of Cultures of the year 2004 has been the most important event that has been held in the city and stood out as a great event in the history of Barcelona.

Economy in Barcelona City

For the year 2016 there was a total of 174,000 companies in the city of Barcelona, of these, 5,700 belonged to the industrial sector, 14,271 the construction, 32,034 the commercial and repair and 122,204 to the services.

For the year 2016 the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the City of Barcelona had an increase of 3.16% based on the year 2010. For 2015, the salary average residents of Barcelona amounted to € 28,861 per year.

At the base of Monjuïc was located Barkeno from the fourth century BC. In at that time, it was one of the most important Iberian villages in the area.

His trade was maritime and Aguiar Uvial and he minted his own currency. Hold trade with the economic powers of the time, including Republican Rome when the Romans arrived, between 15 and 13 BC, they were looking for the best place to find a colony located between the prosperous Emporiae (Empúries), on the north coast, and Tarraco (Tarragona), on the south coast.

The place chosen was the top of Mons Taber, a small hill facing the sea that dominated the panorama. This elevation allowed them to defend themselves easily and was strategic for controlling domestic and maritime trade and exploration of the plain surrounding the summit. Its foundation in times of Augustus was given to the national court of the Cantabrian wars as a reward for the military elites who had secured victory.

Barcino was a prosperous city, although small. By this time, it had only thirteen hectares, its urban structure is traced based on the Thistle as a north-south axis and the Decuman in an eastern direction-westerns, as the Roman tradition dictates.