Viladecans
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Viladecans (ˌbiɫəðəˈkans) (Old Catalan
for town of dogs) is a large town very close to Barcelona
, Spain
. It is located between Sant Boi de Llobregat
, Sant Climent de Llobregat
, and bordering the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
between El Prat de Llobregat
and Gavà
.
Viladecans has 13 or 14 schools and 30 to 40 sport teams in football, basketball
, baseball
, softball
, gymnastics
and more.
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
for town of dogs) is a large town very close 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...
, Spain
Spain
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. It is located between Sant Boi de Llobregat
Sant Boi de Llobregat
Sant Boi de Llobregat is a town of 80,000 inhabitants in the Barcelona province in Catalonia, located aside the Llobregat river.The town distributes its territory into six districts: Ciutat Cooperativa-Molí Nou, Marianao-Can Paulet, Barri Centre, Vinyets-Molí Vell, Camps Blancs-Canons-Orioles and...
, Sant Climent de Llobregat
Sant Climent de Llobregat
Sant Climent de Llobregat is a municipality in the comarca of Baix Llobregat, Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain. It is connected by road with Viladecans and Sant Boi de Llobregat.-References:...
, and bordering the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
between El Prat de Llobregat
El Prat de Llobregat
El Prat de Llobregat , commonly known as El Prat, is a municipality in the comarca of Baix Llobregat inCatalonia, Spain. It is situated in the delta of the Llobregat river on the right bank, bordering the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between Barcelona and Viladecans. More than a quarter of the...
and Gavà
Gavà
Gavà is a municipality in Barcelona Province , bordering the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between Viladecans and Castelldefels; not to get confused with the village of Gava in the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.Gavà has a beach and two...
.
Viladecans has 13 or 14 schools and 30 to 40 sport teams in football, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, gymnastics
Gymnastics
Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
and more.
Demography
This is a table of Viladecans' population demography since 1900.Notable residents
- Enrique Cortés PesEnrique Cortés PesEnrique Cortés Pes Gallego is a former Spanish baseball player. He played with Spain at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He had 1 hit in 11 at-bats over 6 games, all losses for Spain.-References:...
, Olympic baseball player. - Gervasio DeferrGervasio DeferrGervasio Deferr Angel is a former gymnast from Spain, who started in gymnastics at the age of five, and became the number one athlete of his country in that sport....
, Olympic gymnast, has lived in Viladecans but now he lives in RubiRubiRubi may refer to:* Ruby character, small, annotative characters that can be placed above or to the right of a Chinese character when writing logographic languages such as Chinese or Japanese to show the pronunciation* Rubí, Barcelona...
. - María VascoMaría VascoMaría del Monte Vasco Pes Gallardo is a Spanish race walker. She won the bronze medal over 20 km at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. She was born in Barcelona, Catalonia.-Achievements:-References:*...
, Olympic race walker.
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