LHospitalet de Llobregat

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, regularly shortened to L'Hospitalet, is a municipality to the immediately southwest of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. By population, it is the second one largest in Catalonia and the 16th in Spain. It is stated as one of the maximum densely populated towns inside the European Union. The first information of the agreement date to the Neolithic generation with artefacts displaying human habitation in the Llobregat river vicinity.

Roman artefacts were determined dating to the 2nd century BC along with a funeral ornament representing the top of Medusa, now in the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia. However it isn't until the 10th century that written references to Provencana appear. The present day call originates from the Catalan language and derives from a hostel subsequent to the Church of Saint Eulalia of Provençana utilized by pilgrims within the Middle Ages.

The metropolis retained the man or woman of a village till the 19th century while the primary textile factories were built inflicting a population boom. The 1960s and 1970s saw a 2nd population increase, resulting from immigration from poorer areas of Spain: however this turned into not matched with the aid of production of the essential amenities and it became most effective in the Nineties that public funding ended in extra faculties, entertainment facilities and housing. The Swedish painter and former anarchist Ivan Agueli died there, being killed via a educate, in 1917.