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Gavà (Catalan pronunciation:) is a municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It borders the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between Viladecans and Castelldefels. Gavà has a beach and two population centers: the city proper and Gavà Mar (Gavà Sea), a coastal neighborhood.
The Gavà Museum is located in the Lluc torre; a middle class family summer home built in 1799. The building has a multi-purpose room in the basement, temporary exhibition halls and an educational workshop on the ground floor, and the permanent exhibition Gavà, les veus del paisatge (Gavà, a landscape of voices) on the top floor.
Prehistoric Mines of Gava. The Gavà Mines, also known as Can Tintorer Mines, is a pre-historic archaeological site that occupies the Can Tintorer, Ferreres and Rocabruna areas in the municipality of Gavà (Baix Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain). [1] The site is under care of the Gavà Museum and the Gavà Mines Archaeological Park.
Parts of inland Catalonia were in Carlist hands, while Liberals retained the coastal areas. November: Minister Javier de Burgos decrees the territorial division of Spain into provinces. Catalonia was divided into four provinces (Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona). 1835: First Barcelona bullanga (popular revolt or riot). 1840: 6 July
Barcelona remained the second largest city in Spain, at the heart of a region which was relatively industrialised and prosperous, despite the devastation of the civil war. [144] The result was a large-scale immigration from poorer regions of Spain (particularly Andalucia, Murcia and Galicia), [145] which in turn led to rapid urbanisation. [146]
Barcelona City Hall expanded. [1] 1848 Mataró-Barcelona railway begins operating. [3] Institut Industrial de Catalunya founded. [3] Municipal Archives of Barcelona moves into City Hall. 1849 - La España Industrial el Vapor Nou begins operation in Sants; 1854 City walls dismantled (approximate date). [13] Burning of the Monasteries
Captain General of Catalonia; Castellani people; Catalan Atlas; Catalan constitutions; Catalan Courts; Catalan peseta; Catalan Republic (1640–1641) Catalan Republic (1931) Catalan State (1873) Catalan State (1934) Catalonia and World War II; Catalan declaration of independence; Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia; Cessetani
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.