Badalona

TL;DR

Badalona is not just Barcelona's beach suburb: its 3,000-plus-professional Can Ruti campus and €15.4 million Gorg canal remake show a city running two specialised economies.

municipality in Catalonia

By Alex Denne

Underappreciated Fact

Badalona's hidden advantage is not only its seafront but its ability to run a metropolitan biomedical campus and a post-industrial waterfront transition inside the same municipality.

Key Facts

225,957

Population