# Big time Barcelona

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2014-05-12

age-of-buildings, architect-this-city, barcelona, heritage, history, map, spain, uncategorized, web-app

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Barcelona is one my favorite cities in the world. I love the intimate laneways in the old part of town. I love how [La Rambla](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Rambla,_Barcelona) functions as a spine for public life in the city–even if it is pretty touristy. I love the weather and beaches. And I love that there’s a strong culture of art and design that seems to permeate all aspects of the city. 

Over the weekend I found an impressive website called [BIG TIME BCN](http://bigtimebcn.300000kms.net/), that beautifully maps out the city’s more than 2,000 years of building. It covers over 70,000 plots of land and, if you hover of them, it’ll tell you the age of the buildings. It’s similar to what was done [here](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/60262932256/a-map-of-every-building-in-the-netherlands-according-to) for the Netherlands. But the colors on this one seem very Barcelona to me.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/big-time-barcelona)*