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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 ...
Along with Asturias, Catalonia in general and Barcelona in particular was a center of radical labor agitation, marked by numerous general strikes, assassinations (especially in the late 1910s), and the rise of the pro-anarchist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Labour, CNT, founded in Barcelona in 1910). [111]
From that point on, the counts of Barcelona often referred to themselves as princeps (prince), in order to show their preeminence over the other Catalan counts. [15] During the 9th and 10th centuries, the counties increasingly became a society of aloers , peasant proprietors of small, family-based farms, who lived by subsistence agriculture and ...
Barcelona conquered by the Franks from Muslim control. Establishment of the County of Barcelona. 826: Aissó Revolt against Frankish nobility, devastating and depopulating most of Central Catalonia. 878: Wilfred the Hairy, count of Urgell and Cerdanya becomes count of Barcelona, Girona and Osona. 880: Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll founded. 897
Iberian Kingdoms in 1400. The Principality of Catalonia was a state [1] [2] of the composite monarchy known as Crown of Aragon.The Principality was the result of the absortion or vassalization by the County of Barcelona of the other Catalan counties (such as the counties of Girona, Osona, Urgell or Rousillon), while the Crown was created by the dynastic union of the County of Barcelona and the ...
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