La Florida is a neighborhood in District 4 of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, in the Barcelona metropolitan area.
Thanks to several waves of migration, most recently in the 2000s, La Florida is now the densest neighborhood in Europe[1] and is majority foreign-born.
In the 19th century, the neighborhood was mainly vineyards, but by the 1900s some light industry, specifically brickworks, appeared in the area.
[2] In 1926, municipal architect Ramon Puig i Gairalt put forth a plan for the urbanization of the neighborhood, and by 1930 the city was laying down more streets.
Today, 50% of the residents are foreign-born, with the majority coming from Latin American countries, mainly Bolivia, Honduras, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Ecuador.