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The economy of Barcelona during this period was increasingly directed towards trade. In 1258 James I of Aragon allowed the merchant guilds of Barcelona to draw ordinances regulating maritime trade in the city's port, [105] and in 1266, he permitted the city to appoint representatives known as consuls to all the major Mediterranean ports of the ...
Furthermore, Barcelona was Europe's fourth best business city and fastest improving European city, with growth improved by 17% per year as of 2009. [106] Barcelona was the 24th most "livable city" in the world in 2015 according to lifestyle magazine Monocle. [107]
1450 – University of Barcelona founded. [2] 1473 – Printing press in use. [8] 1474 – Moll de la Santa Creu (wharf) construction begins. [2] 1493 – Columbus' published description of his trans-Atlantic trip becomes a "bestseller" in Barcelona. [9] 1529 – Charles V and Clement VII sign treaty in Barcelona. [10] 1609 – Bank of ...
It is the only city in Western Europe to have been founded between the fifth and eighth centuries. [c] ... sacked Barcelona in 985, ... A map of Europe in 1648, ...
Barcelona; Berlin [9] ... A New Map of Europe According to the Newest Observations (1721) ... In 1949 the Council of Europe was founded, ...
35th International Eucharistic Congress held in Barcelona. 1971: 7 November: Assembly of Catalonia founded. 1977: 11 September: 1977 Catalan autonomy protest. 23 October: The exiled president of Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas, returned to Barcelona and the Generalitat of Catalonia was restored. 1979: 8 September: Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia ...
At the end of the 9th century, the Count of Barcelona Wilfred the Hairy (878–897) made his titles hereditaries and thus founded the dynasty of the House of Barcelona, which reigned in Catalonia until 1410. Hug IV, count of Empúries, and Pero Maça during the conquest of Mallorca (1229) A 15th-century miniature of the Catalan Courts
Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Spain and Europe Pedro de la Rosa, a native of Barcelona, testing for McLaren at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in 2008 Palau Sant Jordi, the largest indoor arena in Spain. Sport in Barcelona. Football in Barcelona Association football in Barcelona Football teams in Barcelona FC Barcelona; RCD Espanyol