L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is a city and municipality in the Barcelonès region, Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) on the left bank of the Llobregat river. It is bordered to the west by the terms of Esplugues de Llobregat, Cornellà de Llobregat and El Prat de Llobregat, and to the east and south by that of Barcelona.
Its population is 291,488 people and its population density is 21,189.51 hab./km² (2024) in 12.4 km² of surface, making it the second city in Catalonia in terms of population and the most densely populated in all of Spain, in all the Catalan Countries and in all of Europe. The most critical European km² of this population density is between the neighborhoods of Collblanc and la Torrassa, where 53,119 inhabitants/km² are reached.
The city’s reputation is largely still that of a depressed suburb, drawing on its proletarian origins and its reliance on Barcelona. But its economy has improved recently, as can be seen from the city’s new skyline and relocation of companies to the city’s new financial centre. Urban regeneration and skyscraper construction took place during the 2000s, as well as ongoing work on improving public transportation in the second municipality of the Barcelona metropolitan area. The former airline Spanair’s headquarters were in L’Hospitalet. Former mayor Celestino Corbacho campaigned to improve the city’s infrastructure from his position in the Ministry of Work.
Main attractions
Skyscrapers
Hotel Porta Fira (2010) –113 metres (371 ft)– Completed
Torre Realia BCN (2009) – 112 metres (367 ft) – Completed
Hotel Catalonia Plaza Europa (2011) – 105 metres (344 ft) – Completed
Hesperia Tower (2006) – 106 metres (348 ft) – Completed
Tower Caixa Catalunya (2006) – 106 metres (348 ft) – Planned
Torre Inbisa (2010) – 104 metres (341 ft) – Completed
Torre Zenit (2009) – 104 metres (341 ft) – Completed
Hospital de Bellvitge (1972) – 82 metres (269 ft) – Completed
Tower Colonial (2008) – 75 metres (246 ft) – Under Construction (on hold)
Tower Fadesa I (2009) – 65 metres (213 ft) – Completed
Tower Fadesa II (2009) – 65 metres (213 ft) – Completed
Tower Fadesa III (2009) – 65 metres (213 ft) – Completed
City Judicial Building A (2008) – 62 metres (203 ft) – Completed
City Judicial Building C (2008) – 58 metres (190 ft) – Completed
Torre Melina (Hotel Rey Juan Carlos) (1992) – 60 metres (200 ft) – Completed
Transport
Public transport in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is operated by several companies, most of which are part of the Autoritat del Transport Metropolità, a transport authority managing services in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
L’Hospitalet is located immediately to the west of Barcelona’s Sants-Montjuïc and Les Corts districts, meaning transit between the two cities is quite straightforward, even though it was not fully implemented until late. This article intends to list the different transportation services within limits of the municipality of L’Hospitalet.
Main information
Area: 12,4 sq. km (municipality)
Coordinates: 41° 21′ 32″ N, 2° 05′ 57″ E
Population: 274.455
Languages: Spanish, Catalan
Currency: Euro
Visa: Schengen
Time: Central European UTC +1
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