 Hi, my course is called Contemporary Barcelona and it's Cultural History and it's a history of Barcelona over the last century and a half with particular emphasis on culture, on the urban transformation of the city and on the transformation of Barcelona from a grey industrial city during the period of Francoism to the cosmopolitan global city that it is today. We focus a lot on the last 50 years, on the transition to democracy, on the 1992 Olympics and on the 21st century city that Barcelona is today that attracts so many people but we also focus on the 19th century on how an industrial city became known as the Paris the Mediterranean, on the modernist architects of Antoni Gaudí, of Puig de Carafalc and Dominique Montenegro and the beginning of the formation of this gem of the Mediterranean that we know as Barcelona.