Barcelona’s urban renewal
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Barcelona hosted the 1992 Olympic Games, which led to significant urban renewal in the city including construction of new sports facilities like stadiums and fields to prepare for the event. The Games resulted in new infrastructure and buildings that transformed Barcelona, with benefits still enjoyed by citizens today who can make use of the new sports venues and other developments.
Barcelona’s urban renewal
- 2. Barcelona is the capital and the most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid Barcelona is recognized as a Global City due to its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, education and tourism
- 3. In 1992 the Olympic Games were celebrated in this city. This happening made in the city a lot of changes. The main change in the city was the construction of many sport facilities like stadiums and fields. This thing happened because the city had to create the conditions to adapt itself to the event.
- 4. Constructions that were modified because of the games The Royal Palace Olympic Stadium of Montjuic Velodrom D’Horta
- 5. Benefits to Barcelona from this Games We could say that this transformation resulted in a significant change in the city of Barcelona as it appeared new infrastructure and also built new. The most important of all, this event is that citizens can enjoy all this transformation