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Mediterranean, cosmopolitan, avant-garde, cultural, modern and modernist, olympic, gothic... the adjectives which can be used to define the city of Barcelona are endless...and this city bordering the Mediterranean sea and the mountains of Montjuïc and Collserola offers its visitors an endless number of options.
Barcelona is a city of rich and varied arquitectura with emblematic buildings designed by the most internationally famous Catalan architect, Gaudí. Just seeing La Pedrera, la Sagrada Familia or la Casa Batlló makes visiting the city worthwhile.
Although Barcelona's public transportation system is excellent, the best way to get to know the city is by walking through its streets. If you stroll through the gothic quarter, you'll be astonished each step of the way: the Catedral, Plaça del Rei, Portal del Bisbe, Plaça Felip Neri . Don't forget to take the obligatory walk through La Rambla, the heart of the city, beating with vibrancy at any hour of the day or night, whether you are in the colourful Boqueria market, the entrance to the Liceu or watching any of the numerous spectacles taking place on the street.
With respect to cultural visits, Barcelona has a number of museums, including the Picasso (on Montcada street, declared a world heritage site by the Unesco), the Joan Miro Foundation o Macba (museum of contemporary art).
The city offers a wide variety of leisure time activities, as the thousands of tourists that come to Barcelona each year know very well. Film, theatre, dance, an aquarium, the Tibidabo amusement park, the Imax-Port Vell, the zoo, restaurants, bars... Nightlife abounds throughout practically the entire city: Old town (pubs, fashionable bars, terraces), Maremagnum (sit-down bars and discos), Eixample (tech music bars, live music, salsa, ambience...), Gracia (bars and terraces for the younger crowd), the Olympic Harbour (discos, bars, restaurants...). |
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