BARCELONA -- From the beginning of the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday it looked as if the victory would come down to one Spanish-speaker or another. But while in the end the winner was not the one that most of the spectators at the circuit outside of Barcelona had cheered at the start, his victory was certainly a popular -- and sentimental -- one for...
As the European portion of the Formula One series gets under way this weekend with the Spanish Grand Prix, the fifth race of the season, in Montmelo, outside Barcelona, a race is finally taking place in a country closer to the teams' home bases -- all of which are in Europe. While that means a lot less travel for the teams and drivers to and from...
It was not until the last decade that the Spanish Grand Prix came into its own on the Formula One calendar, with all of Spain backing it and the series itself becoming the second- or third-most popular sport in the country, after soccer and cycling. This coincided with the success of Fernando Alonso, a Spanish driver who by 2006 was double world...
Barcelona er hovedstad i den spanske region Catalonien, der ligger i det nordøstlige Spanien ud mod Middelhavet.
Byen er landets næststørste med 1,6 mio. (4,6 mio. med forstæder) indbyggere kun overgået af hovedstaden Madrid.
I 1992 var Barcelona vært for Sommer-OL.
Byen har to fodboldhold i den bedste spanske division La Liga, nemlig FC Barcelona og RCD Espanyol.
Endvidere har byen også internationalt succesrige klubber indenfor basketball og håndbold.
Navnet Barcelona kommer fra det levantin-iberiske navnet Barkeno, som er fundet i en møntindskribtion skrevet med iberisk skrift. I græske kilder er byen omtalt som Βαρκινών; og i latinske kilder som Barcino, Barcelo og Barceno. I middelalderen var byen også kendt som Barcinona, Barçalona, Barchelona og Barchenona. Fold ud