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Barcelona won the 1999 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for its architecture, [173] the first (and as of 2015, only) time that the winner has been a city rather than an individual architect. Barcelona is the home of many points of interest declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO: [174]
However, the time zone was changed to Central European Time in 1940 and has remained so since then, meaning that Spain does not use its "natural" time zone under the coordinated time zone system: talking about A Coruña, in the solstices, it experiences in summer sunrise at 6:53 am and sunset at 10:19 pm while it should respectively be 5:53 am ...
Apart from 1984, 1985, and 1986 (Spain's first three years as a member), 2000 saw the most new sites inscribed, with five that year. As of 2024 [update] , Spain has 50 total sites inscribed on the list, which is the fifth largest number of sites per country, only behind Italy (60), China (59), Germany (54), and France (53). [ 5 ]
On March 15, 2007, the General Directorate of Heritage of the Generalitat of Catalonia, in accordance with the Catalan Cultural Heritage Law (Law 9/1993, of September 30), declared Montjuic an area of Cultural Asset of National Interest (BCIN), due to the existence of the medieval Jewish cemetery in Barcelona, considered the largest in Europe ...
They are located on the mountain of Montjuic, on the land formerly occupied by the Montjuic Amusement Park (1966-1998), which for years combined fairground attractions with various shows and musical concerts and made this area of Montjuic one of the main leisure areas of Barcelona. With the end of the municipal concession of the land in 1998 ...
The shift is the amount of time added at the DST start time and subtracted at the DST end time. For example, in Canada and the United States , when DST starts, the local time changes from 02:00 to 03:00, and when DST ends, the local time changes from 02:00 to 01:00.