De Salses a Guardamar i de Fraga a l’Alguer: les comarques de parla catalana una a una. 29/88: el Baix Llobregat (Barcelona Metropolitan Ambit, Catalonia).
Baix Llobregat (“Low Llobregat”) is a shire located where the Llobregat river reaches the Mediterranean sea, just south of Barcelona. It is considered part of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, since some of its cities grow as a continuation of Barcelona as if it were the same city. Barcelona’s airport is also located in this shire.
An important part of Baix Llobregat is occupied by agriculture, since the soil is extremely fertile thanks to the sediments brought by the river. However, most of the surface is part of the cities, since this shire is one of the smallest ones in Catalonia and yet the 3rd most populated one.
Even though it preserves some architectural heritage and old city centres, these cities mostly consist of apartment buildings built in the 1960s to accomodate the huge immigration wave that arrived in that decade from Southern Spain, which triplicated the population of Catalonia at the time.
Photos by via michelin, time out, esmalagarriga, jujol140, boluddhabcn, llobregat digital, © Juan Carlos Bolaños for arquitecturablanca.com, donsergi.
