The magazine Viajar, which advertises itself as the first Travel magazine in the country, has been immersed in a small controversy after publishing an unconventional list: the list of the ugliest municipalities in each Spanish province. And the fact is that one can travel for many reasons, looking for the most beautiful town, the coolest (to escape the heat) or even the most crowded, but the search for ugliness is perhaps the least common.
If we add to the controversy that the list published by the magazine has been prepared by the IA, without further motives or reasons, it is understandable that the municipalities that appear have complained, to the point that the magazine has withdrawn the article.
Thus, in this peculiar ranking, Santa Coloma de Gramenet has been singled out as the ugliest municipality in the province of Barcelona..
The ninth most populated city in Catalonia, with 119,195 inhabitants in 2023, and despite having places of interest such as the Torre Balldovina, the Torre Pallaresa and the Poblat ibèric del Puig Castellar, has been considered the ugliest city. According to several articles, the population density or some urbanistic problems could be the reasons for this choice.
From Barcelona Secreta we have done the same exercise with different AI, asking for the same list, and we have decided not to give it more diffusion. When asked about ChatGPT’s criteria for deciding, they cite, for example, abundance of industrial landscapes, monotony or lack of identity of the city, urban deterioration or lack of green spaces.
From this magazine we do not subscribe to these criteria, and we believe that all Barcelona municipalities have enough interest to strive to discover their most interesting points. Therefore, we leave you a list of articles that we have dedicated to spaces of Santa Coloma de Gramanet, so that you can go around discovering, justly, your own criteria to define the beauty of a city.
- Bar Verat, probably the best neighborhood bar in Barcelona
- The Besós river becomes the largest graffiti museum in Europe
- Coffee at 50 ct. and beer at 1 euro: Santa Coloma’s bar with prices from another era
- This is the first (and only) photo of the wolf that approached Barcelona
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