Barcelona city

Cities, like people, grow and evolve from day to day. Barcelona, which has been around for overone thousand years, has changed with the passage of time, adaptingto the needs of each moment and arraying itself in each period with elegant buildings in innovatory architectural styles. The fieldsof crops and the waste ground around the old city gradually gave way t new districts and new buildings. Thelaying out of avenues and squares often involved the disappearance of buildings, old streets of even whole districts. That permanent transformation over time has made the cityscape a living element.