Barcelona in figures

Barcelona in figures

La Mercè takes over Barcelona: five days, 109 concerts, and 750 drones

Elena Busquets
An apparition before King James I, a plague of locusts, and, nearly eight centuries on, a festival that draws over a million people and transforming Barcelona into an open-air cultural extravaganza. La Mercè, the patron saint of Barcelona, has travelled a long – and rather singular – road since the Virgin...
Barcelona in figures

Living to one hundred: mapping longevity in Barcelona

Elena Busquets
More than two decades ago, Five for Fighting sang about having only 100 years to live, alone at a grand piano, set against a mountain landscape that seemed frozen in time. Few people, certainly, ever get to find out what a hundred years of life actually feels like. In Barcelona,...
Barcelona in figures

Barcelona, on the global AI podium

Elena Busquets
Project after project, announcement after announcement, Barcelona keeps building — steadily and consistently — an artificial intelligence ecosystem that has grown well beyond startups, bringing together talent, companies and projects of international scope. Like a snowball effect, the major projects that arrived in 2025 have been joined by new developments...
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