Houses in Barcelona

Barcelona is a Spanish city, capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia, of the homonymous province and of the Barcelonés region. With a population of 1,660,435 inhabitants as of January 2023, it is the second most populated city in Spain and the Iberian Peninsula after Madrid, and the tenth in the European Union. Its metropolitan area has a population of 5,797,356 inhabitants according to Eurostat, making it the fifth largest urban agglomeration and the most densely populated in the European Union.

It has a nominal GDP of €142,223 million and a nominal GDP per capita of €30,619, which represents a PPP GDP per capita of €36,240, being the second Spanish metropolitan area in economic activity and the seventeenth in Europe. after London, Paris, Rhine-Ruhr, Amsterdam, Milan, Brussels, Moscow, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Birmingham. It is, by far, the most touristic city in Spain - with more than 12 million tourists and 35 million overnight stays in 2023 - and the most popular among foreign visitors, who accounted for 80.8% of the total visitors that same year. .