About City
Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain. It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Bes?s and is limited to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge.
The foundation of Barcelona is the subject of two different legends. The first attributes the founding of the city to Hercules 400 years before the building of Rome and that it was rebuilt by the Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, who named the city Barcino after his family, in the 3rd century BC. The second legend attributes the foundation directly to Hamilcar Barca.
Barcelona has a well-developed higher education system of public universities. Most prominent among these is the University of Barcelona, a world-renowned research and teaching institution with campuses around the city. Barcelona is also home to the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the newer Pompeu Fabra University and, in the private sector, the Ramon Llull University encompassing internationally renowned institutions like IESE Business School and ESADE Business School. The Autonomous University of Barcelona, another public university, is located in Bellaterra, a town in the Metropolitan Area.
Barcelona has many venues for live music and theatre, including the world-renowned Gran Teatre del Liceu opera theatre, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, the Teatre Lliure and the Palau de la Música Catalana concert hall. Barcelona also is home to the Sónar Music Festival which takes place around June every year, and to the Barcelona and Catalonia National Symphonic Orchestra (Orquestra Simf?nica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, usually known as OBC) is the largest symphonic orchestra in Catalonia.
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Interesting Places
Clubs recommended by Study4u
Razzmatazz
This is the mother of all Barcelona clubs and the first club I ever went to here, not a way to ease yourself in! It is in fact 5 clubs in-one and your entrance fee covers all. Of all 5 rooms in the disco the one you walk into straight away is the largest, and all play wildly differing music which makes for a surreal experience wandering from a room playing trance into one playing punk.
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Shoko
Shoko restaurant and lounge club is the most exclusive and fun meeting point for lokals and foreigners alike. After dinner and the sound of the gong the restaurant radically transforms itself into a distinguished club where our DJ's bring the ultimate in sound from Funk, R&B and House.
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