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I can say in the Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia that the sky is the best thing we have in L'Hospitalet, because it allows us to look up and thus not fix our eyes on what is closest to us: the densest city in Catalonia, Spain, with the densest neighborhood in Europe...
Indeed, the neighborhood of La Florida de l'Hospitalet de Llobregat is the densest in all of Europe. It was built in 1955 to house those who lived in the Somorrostro barracks in apartments that had 35 m2 and that, years later, were expanded to 41 m2, in the so-called Florida Blocks.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat is the city with the highest population density in the entire European Union, according to a Eurostat study.
In Catalonia's second city, 53,119 people live per square kilometer, a figure higher than that of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, where 52,218 people live per square kilometer. Badalona is, after Paris, the third densest city with 50,287 residents per square kilometer.
The study also indicates that the Barcelona metropolitan area is the sixth most populated in the EU, behind London, Paris, Madrid, the Ruhr region of Germany and Berlin.
