page_title: Barcelona
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: Barcelona / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: Overview of the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
context_page_description: Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, which is a region of Spain. Barcelona is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. The city is between the rivers of Llobregat and Besòs, and south of the Pyrenees mountains. It has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate.
  In 1992, Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympic Games. Many new parks were opened and other significant changes to the city were made. One example is opening the new beaches in the Poble Nou area.
  In 2007, about 1.6 million people lived in Barcelona. Around 3.1 million people live in the Metropolitan Area and 4.9 million people live in the Urban Region. Barcelona is the second most populated city in Spain, and the tenth in the European Union.
  Barcelona is home to football team F.C. Barcelona.
context_section_description: 1987 - Hipercor bombing
  1992 - 1992 Summer Olympics
  2004 - Universal Forum of Cultures
  2017 - 2017 Barcelona attack
caption: Sagrada Familia
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