Editing Barcelona (section)

=== Barcelona under the Spanish monarchy ===
[[File:Wyngaerde Barcelona 1563.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Barcelona in 1563 by [[Anton van den Wyngaerde]]]]
In the beginning of the Early Modern period, Barcelona lost political primacy, but the economy managed to achieve a balance between production capacity and imports.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=L' economia urbana de Barcelona i la Guerra de Successió|first=Manuel|last=Arranz|first2=Ramon|last2=Grau|page=117|journal=Recerques: història, economia, cultura|volume=24|year=1991|url=https://raco.cat/index.php/Recerques/article/view/137685/241497|issn=0210-380X}}</ref>

In the context of the wider early recovery of Catalonia from the [[The General Crisis|17th-century crisis]] in the second half of the century, increasing maritime activity since 1675 doubled traffic in the port of Barcelona compared to figures from the beginning of the 17th century.<ref>[[Stanley G. Payne|Payne, Stanley G.]] [http://libro.uca.edu/payne1/payne15.htm Chapter 15: A History of Spain and Portugal], {{dead link|date=August 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In the late 17th and early 18th century, Barcelona repeatedly endured the effects of war, including the 1691 bombing, the sieges of 1697, 1704, 1705, 1706, and the 1713 blockade and ensuing 1714 siege and assault.{{Sfn|Arranz|Grau|1991|p=135–136}}

In the 18th century, the population grew from 30,000 to about 100,000 inhabitants, as the city became one of the key mercantile centres in the Western Mediterranean, with inland influence up to [[Zaragoza]], and to the south up to [[Alicante]].<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.3989/hispania.1998.v58.i199.645|url=https://hispania.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispania/article/view/645/639|page=510|first=David R.|last=Ringrose|title=Historia urbana y urbanización en la España moderna|issn=1988-8368|location=Madrid|volume=58|issue=1999|year=1998|journal=Hispania|publisher=[[Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas]]|doi-access=free}}</ref> A fortress was built at [[Montjuïc]] that overlooked the harbour.

Much of Barcelona was negatively affected by the [[Peninsular War|Napoleonic wars]], but the start of industrialization saw the fortunes of the province improve.