Esplugues de Llobregat is a municipality of the Barcelona metropolitan area

Barcelona metropolitan area

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. It belongs to the comarca

Comarca

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 of Baix Llobregat

Baix Llobregat

Baix Llobregat is a comarca on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. Its capital is Sant Feliu de Llobregat.-Municipalities:Populations are from 2002.* Abrera - pop. 9,166* Begues - pop. 5,023* Castelldefels - pop. 52,405...

, Barcelona province

Barcelona (province)

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, Catalonia

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, Spain

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. It has some schools, such as the German School of Barcelona and American School of Barcelona, which attract rich families, thus increasing the population and services. It is linked to Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 through the following bus lines: 57, 63, 67, 68, 157, metropolitan buses, and Tram lines.

History

The first nominal legal land section, a little portion of land with a few homes and a few inhabitants, in what is today Esplugues was made in 1096. The first documents which talk about a town called Esplugues de Llobregat date from the 14th century.

Demography

Notable people

• Carme Chacón
  Carme Chacón
  Carme Chacón Piqueras is a Spanish politician who is currently serving as Minister of Defence in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is married and gave birth to her first child, a son named Miquel on 19 May 2008....
  
  : Minister of Defence
• Óscar Jaenada: Actor
• Mercedes Milá
  Mercedes Milá
  María Mercedes Milá Mencos is a Spanish television presenter and journalist, most notable for her work on Spain's Telecinco's Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of the reality television series Big Brother.- Biography :...
  
  : Journalist
• Lorenzo Milá
  Lorenzo Milá
  Lorenzo Milá Mencos is a Spanish newscaster and journalist. He is the son of José Luis Milá Sagnier, count of Montseny; younger brother of Mercedes Milá ; and married to Sagrario Ruiz de Apodaca , with three children.Milá obtained his Information Sciences degree in 1978 at the...
  
  : Journalist
• Pilar Giménez García: Musician

External links

• Official site (in Catalan)