If you have visited Barcelona, you’ll have passed through L’Hospitalet, the home town of Adama Traore.
You probably won’t have stopped to visit the mass of housing estates, built in the Sixties to relocate people from low-quality housing by the old docks, as well as the Roma community, and then swelled by immigration from South America and Africa.
It is a city next to a city, part of the urban sprawl of municipal districts but with its own identity, a modern multicultural Catalan conurbation and the gateway to Barcelona.
On one boundary the city’s premier football club play, on the other is the airport, where tourists start their journey to the more recognised sites of Sagrada Familia and Las Ramblas in the city of Gaudi, Picasso and Messi.