Barcelona
The romans could never had imagined that they laid the first stone to one of the worlds most established brands when they founded Barcelona about 2 000 years ago. Barcelona is today a european design center and a top destination with 86 fairs a year, a culture core with a smart sense of heritage, taking care of the old buildings, and traditions, but at the same time in a very concious way promote the city without loosing it´s soul. The Cataláns are generally more calm and moderate than the spanish, the exepcion is the football and FC Barcelona, that in the heart of every Catalán, and cooking in the blood of the grandparents as well as the younger generations, when they together shout themself hoarse on one of the worlds most famous footballsarenas, Camp Nou. The real turn for Barcelona came in 1992, when it went from being an industrial city to a chic urban metropolis, and hostess for the olympic games. The city went through a makeover and large parts of the city was rebuilt to ...