Torres Europa

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Torre Europa 3, 4, 5
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General information
Status Complete
Type residencial
Location L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (suburb of Barcelona), Catalonia, Spain
Construction started 2005
Completed 2009
Height 75 m (246 ft) - Torre Europa 3, 4, 5
Technical details
Floor count 19 - Torre Europa 3, 4, 5

Torre Europa (Torres Europa) - generally, is the name of five skyscrapers of complex buildings in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (suburb of Barcelona), Spain, with numbers from 1 to 5. However, the Torre Europa 1 has name of Torre Inbisa, [1] the Torre Europa 2 has name of Torre Zenit [2] and both these towers are over 100 meters tall. [3] Other buildings is Torre Europa 3, Torre Europa 4 and Torre Europa 5. Torre Europa 3, 4, 5 has 19 floors and rises 75 meters. [4] [5] [6] All these towers are lies on Plaza de Europa.

LHospitalet de Llobregat Municipality in Catalonia, Spain

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, often shortened to L'Hospitalet, is a municipality to the immediate southwest of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.

Barcelona City and municipality in Catalonia, Spain

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Spain Kingdom in Southwest Europe

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands and a peninsula bordering Morocco in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with British dependency Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.

See also

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