Barcelona - Geography
Channel: The Storyteller
Date: 04/05/2020

Barcelona - Geography
Barcelona is located on the northeast coast of the Iberian Peninsula, facing the Mediterranean Sea, on a plain approximately 5 km  wide limited by the mountain range of Collserola, the Llobregat river to the southwest and the Besòs river to the north. This plain covers an area of 170 km2 , of which 101 km2  are occupied by the city itself. It is 120 kilometres  south of the Pyrenees and the Catalan border with France. Tibidabo, 512 m  high, offers striking views over the city and is topped by the 288.4 m  Torre de Collserola, a telecommunications tower that is visible from most of the city. Barcelona is peppered with small hills, most of them urbanised, that gave their name to the neighbourhoods built upon them, such as Carmel , Putget  and Rovira .


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* Text taken from the English Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona
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