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2. Top tourist destination Barcelona plans to shut all holiday ...

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   Barcelona announced that it will bar apartment rentals to tourists by 2028, an unexpectedly move as it seeks to rein in soaring housing costs. Top tourist destination Barcelona plans to shut all ...

3. Casa Milà - Wikipedia

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   In September, they commissioned Gaudí for building them a new house with the idea of living in the main floor and renting out the rest of the apartments. On February 2, 1906, the project was presented to the Barcelona City Council and the works began, demolishing the pre-existing building instead of reforming it, as in the case of the Casa ...

4. Barcelona - Wikipedia

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   Barcelona is served by Barcelona-El Prat Airport, about 17 km (11 mi) south-west of the centre of Barcelona. It is the second-largest airport in Spain, and the largest on the Mediterranean coast, which handled more than 50.17 million passengers in 2018, showing an annual upward trend. [ 157 ]

5. 1931 Barcelona rent strike - Wikipedia

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   The 1931 Barcelona rent strike was called in July 1931 by Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) [1] as a result of a massive immigration wave to Barcelona for jobs constructing the 1929 International Exposition, the Wall Street crash of 1929, and political instability. By the following month, 100,000 working-class families had joined it.

6. Eixample - Wikipedia

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   District hall Original Eixample concept from 1859 Part of the Eixample and the Sagrada Família, viewed from Montjuïc, June 2006 Eixample street and block layout. The Eixample (Catalan: [əˈʃamplə], ' Expansion ') is a district of Barcelona between the old city (Ciutat Vella) and what were once surrounding small towns (Sants, Gràcia, Sant Andreu, etc.), constructed in the 19th and early ...

7. Homelessness in Spain - Wikipedia

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   In Barcelona, a new category of homeless people has been discovered: those with unstable jobs who must live in shelters because of the high cost of rent. A total of 77.5% of the population lived with their parents until the age of 18, 10.7% exclusively with one parent, 5.8% with grandparents or other family members, 3.9% in a shelter, and 2.2% ...