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The Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB; English: Metropolitan Area of Barcelona) is a public body operating on the principle of metropolitan authority. It is composed of representatives of Barcelona and 36 adjacent municipalities accounting for a population of 3,239,337 ( Idescat , 2014) within an area of 636 km 2 .
Spanish postal codes were introduced on 1 July 1984, [1] when the Sociedad Estatal de Correos y Telégrafos introduced automated mail sorting. They consist of five numerical digits, [2] where the first two digits, ranging 01 to 52, correspond either to one of the 50 provinces of Spain or to one of the two autonomous cities on the African coast.
Castelldefels also enjoys close proximity to the major international airport of Barcelona, as El Prat Airport is about 15 km of a drive. The Olympic canal, called Canal Olímpic de Catalunya, built for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games of Barcelona is in the town. The main-belt asteroid 72037 Castelldefels, discovered in 2000, is named after the ...
Barcelona (/ ˌ b ɑːr s ə ˈ l oʊ n ə / ⓘ BAR-sə-LOH-nə; Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə] ⓘ; Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona] ⓘ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain.
El Poble-sec. El Poble-sec (pronounced [əl ˌpɔbːləˈsɛk]; Catalan for 'The Dry Village') is a neighborhood in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona, Catalonia ().The neighborhood is located between Montjuïc mountain and the Avinguda del Paral·lel.
ISO 3166-2:ES is the entry for Spain in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
Casa Jaume Estrada (1906) on the neighbourhood's main artery, Carrer de Sants. Sants is a neighbourhood in the southern part of Barcelona.It belongs to the district of Sants-Montjuïc and is bordered by the districts of Eixample to the northeast, Les Corts to the northwest, and by the municipality of l'Hospitalet de Llobregat to the south.
He is known in Barcelona for having intervened against the 1842 bombing of the city ordered by General Baldomero Espartero and Captain-General Juan Van Halen. Before 1895 the square had been known as Josepets , after the 1626 convent of Santa Maria de Gràcia , also known as Els Josepets", which remained a popular name for the square, although ...