Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona

This article is about the vegueria. For the public entity, see Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona. For the metropolitan area, see Barcelona metropolitan area.

Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈambid mətɾupuliˈta ðə βəɾsəˈlonə]; Barcelona Metropolitan Demarcation), also referred to as the vegueria of Barcelona,^[1][2] is one of the nine regions (vegueries) of Catalonia.

Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona Vegueria of Barcelona
Vegueria
From top, left to right: La Rambla boulevard in Barcelona; Mataró port; Plaça de Catalunya station in Barcelona; Sabadell
Sovereign state	Spain
Community	Catalonia
Capital	Barcelona
Counties	Barcelonès Baix Llobregat Maresme Vallès Occidental Vallès Oriental
Area
• Total	2,464.4 km2 (951.5 sq mi)
Population  (2022)
• Total	4,916,847
• Density	2,000/km2 (5,200/sq mi)
Statistics from IDESCAT

Located in the centre of the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range, it is the most populated region, with 4,916,847 inhabitants as of 2022.^[3]

The region includes the counties of Baix Llobregat, Barcelonès, Maresme, Vallès Occidental and Vallès Oriental. Within Catalonia it borders Penedès to the south, Central Catalonia to the west, and vegueria of Girona to the north.

Its capital city is Barcelona.

Characteristics

The region was defined in 1987 in the Territorial Planning Laws approved by the Parliament of Catalonia.^[4] It currently comprises Barcelona and its area of economic and market influence. Alt Penedès and Garraf were initially part of it as well, but were integrated into the new Penedès region in 2017.

In April 2008, the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Generalitat de Catalunya presented the preliminary draft of the Barcelona Metropolitan Territorial Plan, which delimits the areas of scenic and strategic interest that are to be preserved and aims to promote a quality road and rail network.^[5]

Demography

The region's most populated cities (100,000+ inhabitants) are Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona, Terrassa, Sabadell, Mataró and Santa Coloma de Gramenet.

Population by county

Counties	Population (2022)[6]	Map
Barcelonès	2,268,056	Vallès Oriental Vallès Occidental Baix Llobregat Barcelonès Maresme
Baix Llobregat	828,889
Maresme	457,583
Vallès Occidental	940,969
Vallès Oriental	417,265

Transport

Main article: Autoritat del Transport Metropolità

Underground and rail service in Plaça de Catalunya

Since 1997, the region's transport is coordinated by the Metropolitan Transport Authority, with the aims of planning the infrastructure and services, managing relations with transport operators, handling the financing of the transport system and setting fares.^[7]

Local media

Television

In June 1980, the town of Cardedeu, in Vallès Oriental county, began broadcasts of Televisió de Cardedeu [ca], a community television channel that would be the first channel to broadcast entirely in Catalan, as well as the first local channel in Catalonia and in the whole of Spain.^[8][9]

Nowadays, the region holds TVC's studios, in Sant Joan Despí (Baix Llobregat), as well as RTVE's Catalan studios, located in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Vallès Occidental).^[10]

As far as programming exclusive to the region is concerned, six different local multiplexes are active. In contrast to other regions of Catalonia, there are no local channels broadcast for the whole Barcelona region, but rather for each of its counties.^[11] Below are the main television channels broadcasting in each county as of April 2024.^[11]

County	Channel name		Type	Headquarters	Multiplex
Barcelonès		betevé	Public (Barcelona)	Sant Martí, Barcelona (Barcelonès)	TL01B
		Televisió de Badalona [ca]	Public (Badalona)	Badalona (Barcelonès)
		Televisió de l'Hospitalet [ca]	Public (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat)	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelonès)
Vallès Oriental	Vallès Oriental Televisió		Public (Vallès Oriental)	Granollers (Vallès Oriental)	TL02B
	Vallès Visió [ca]			Mollet del Vallès (Vallès Oriental)
		Ràdio Televisió Cardedeu [ca]	Non-profit community	Cardedeu (Vallès Oriental)
Baix Llobregat	ETV Llobregat [ca]		Commercial	Esplugues de Llobregat (Baix Llobregat)	TL03B
Maresme		tvmataró [ca]	Public (Maresme)	Mataró (Maresme)	TL06B
	MarTV		Commercial	Premià de Mar (Maresme)
Vallès Occidental		Mola TV [ca]		Sabadell (Vallès Occidental)	TL07B
	Televisió Sant Cugat			Sant Cugat del Vallès (Vallès Occidental)
	Canal Terrassa Vallès [ca]		Public (Vallès Occidental)	Terrassa (Vallès Occidental)
					TL12B

See also

• Vegueries of Catalonia
• Comarques of Catalonia
• Barcelona metropolitan area
• Metropolitan Transport Authority
• Urban planning of Barcelona

References

1. "Document".
2. "La Generalitat a la vegueria de Barcelona". gencat.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 April 2024.
3. "Idescat. Statistical Yearbook of Catalonia. Population on 1 January. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces". www.idescat.cat. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
4. "Wayback Machine". 8 June 2009. Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
5. "PTMB". www.collserola.org. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
6. "Idescat. Anuari estadístic de Catalunya. Població a 1 de gener. Comarques i Aran, àmbits i províncies". www.idescat.cat. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
7. "Adreces i telèfons". gencat.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 April 2024.
8. Vicente, Inmaculada (11 June 1990). "RTV Cardedeu, la decana". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
9. A.c.r (15 January 2013). "TV Cardedeu, la degana de Catalunya, en situació límit". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 March 2024.
10. "Sant Cugat cumple 40 años". RTVE.es (in Spanish). 26 June 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
11. "Database of television frequencies in Barcelona". mundoplus.tv. Retrieved 18 April 2024.

External links

• The Catalan government's territorial services in the vegueria of Barcelona

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