Barcelona has been the scene of various international events that have contributed to its consolidation, development and worldwide projection. The most important of these have been the Universal Exhibition of 1888, the International Exhibition of 1929, the 1992 Olympic Games and the Universal Forum of Cultures 2004.

One of Barcelona’s attractions is its beaches. Thanks to the regeneration of the coastline carried out in 1992 for the Olympic Games, Barcelona now has nine beaches and a bathing area covering more than 4.2 kilometres of coastline.

Barcelona is known as the capital of modernism because of the great quantity and quality of works it treasures, with jewels such as the Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo and all the work of the most famous and renowned modernist architect, Antoni Gaudí.