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The unmistakable works of Gaudi form the most lasting images of Barcelona: from his distinctive houses in the Paseo de Gracia to his monumental masterpiece, the awe-inspiring Church of the Sagrada Familia. Take the funicular up to Montjuich for its castle, Olympic Stadium and fine views, or ride the cable car across the harbour to the beach area. Las Ramblas offers an entertaining stroll.

Barcelona is divided in Badalona, Castelldefels, Cerdanyola, Esplugues de Llobregat, Gava, l'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Molins de Rei, Sabadell, Sant Cugat del Valles, Sant Just Desvern, Terrassa and Viladecans

Costas : Costa Brava, Costa Daurada, Costa del Geraf [ Castelldefels, Sitges ], Costa Maresme


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Hotels Barcelona

  Hotels in Barcelona   -   Hotel Guide Barcelona
Book your hotel in Barcelona online. Great range of to choose from. All hotels with special rates and good availability. Hotels in Barcelona Centre, Sitges, Pineda de Mar, Malgrat de Mar, El Prat de Llobregat, Castelldefels, Calella, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Sant Just Desvern, Esplugas de Llobregat, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barbera del Valles

 
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

Hesperia Hotels in Barcelona (Spain) from 58 €  

  Barcelona30.com   -   
Barcelona Cheap Hotels, Hostels, Apartments and B&B's

  Acevi Villarroel ****
It situated in the heart of Barcelona, to few meters of the Fair, Plaza España, Rambla de Catalunya and Passeig de Gracia, an area where you can enjoy visiting the main principal samples of Modernism. Well communicated by subway, bus and very near the station of railroad Sants. Our hotel counts on the most modern installations, permitting our clients to enjoy high levels of quality, confort and service. Comfortable and spacious rooms with King beds, decorated in a minimalist style with wooden floors and elegant bathrooms.

  NH Numancia ***
Located just a few minutes away from the Barcelona business fair grounds, between the Plaza Francesc Macià and the Barcelona-Sants train station. Easy access to major thoroughfares and the airport.

  Princesa Sofia Gran Hotel *****
Located in the exclusive Diagonal Avenue, a 5 star hotel in the centre of the cosmopolitan Barcelona where you can enjoy its swimming pool, solarium and jacuzzi. In harmony with the character and features of the hotel, there is an exquisite choice of local and international cuisine at Contraste restaurant. The hotel also features an extensive health club (Aqua Diagonal Wellness Center), 24 hour room service, 28 meeting rooms, business centre, parking facilities and beauty salon.

  NH Rallye *** 
The hotel is located in the business district close to El Corte Inglés and just 50 m from the F. C. Barcelona soccer stadium with quick access to the airport and highways.

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

    -   Barcelona Breaks
Experience the incredible atmosphereof Barcelona, which combines the mood of its fascinating medieval history with modern cosmopolitan vivacity.

  [ ATOL 230 ]   -   Flexible Luxury Holidays Barcelona
Sovereign is a specialist tour operator with more than 30 years experience.

 

 

   -   City Trips Barcelona



  Mundi Color UK
British subsidiary of the largest travel operator on the Iberian Peninsula, and the UK's Number One specialist travel operator to Spain.

Barcelona City Guides / Related books 

Amazon.com - Travel Guides Barcelona 

  DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Barcelona
AnneLise Sorensen (Author), Ryan Chandler (Author)
Paperback: 160 pages; Publisher: Dorling Kindersley (1 Feb 2011) ; ISBN-10: 1405358424.

  Time Out Barcelona 14th edition
Paperback: 336 pages; Publisher: Time Out; 14th Revised edition edition (7 April 2011); ISBN-10: 1846702186.

  Barcelona (Lonely Planet City Guide)
Damien Simonis (Author)
Paperback: 300 pages; Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 7th edition edition (19 Nov 2010); ISBN-10: 1741795931.

  Pocket Rough Guide Barcelona
Jules Brown (Author)
Paperback: 192 pages; Publisher: Rough Guides; Pap/Map edition (20 Jan 2011); ISBN-10: 1848366000.

  Barcelona Berlitz Popout Map [Folded Map]
Paperback: 2 pages; Publisher: Berlitz Publishing (1 Oct 2009); ISBN-10: 9812687238. 

Transport / How do I travel to Barcelona

  Barcelona Airport
Barcelona is the arrival and departure point for flights from around the world. The airport is within easy reach of the city  -  see AENA [ Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea ]

    

 
Book cheap flights to Barcelona at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets Barcelona /  Bargain Flights
Cheap flights barcelona, price comparison possible. 

Barcelona is the Mediterranean's foremost cruise ship harbour. It operates services to the Balearic Islands and major ports.

  Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona [ TMB ]  -  Public Transport in Barcelona
Everything you need to plan your trips around Barcelona.
Where am I | I want to go to... | Maps | Timetables | Travelcards | How are you getting here | Barcelona Tourist Bus | Roman Barcelona Route | Modernisme Route | Romanesque & Gothic Route | Gaudi Route

  Touristic Barcelona Bus
The double-decker Barcelona Bus Turístic is the most convenient way to discover the city's most interesting and attractive sights. You can get on and off the bus as many times and for as long as you like at any of the 40 stops. Combine 3 routes with the same ticket -you have five transfer stops- and...let yourself be transported!


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  Turisme de Barcelona on line
Get ready to discover a modern, cosmopolitan, vibrant city which faces the sea. A convenient city which is the perfect place for a stroll. Barcelona opens its doors to you, so that you can enjoy its wealth of history and culture, its attractive range of shops, excellent cuisine, and a whole host of leisure attractions.
The climate, the Mediterranean light, the people, the beaches and its atmosphere invite you to experience it to the full at any time of the day or night.
Practical guide | Where to sleep | What to visit | Things to do | Where to eat | Shopping | Near Barcelona

  Barcelona City
Presentation of Barcelona | Art Públic | Civil rights | Commerce | Culture | Education | Environment | Health and care | International co-operation | Leisure | Mobility | Social services | Sport | Urban planning (C) | Useful phone numbers

  Catalunya
Website of the Generalitat, Government of Catalonia

  Arc del Triomf
Main entrance of the World Exhibition of 1888 in the Parc de la Ciutadella.
  Avenida del Paralelo / Avenue of the Parallel
One of the main streets of the city of Barcelona, dividing Ciutat Vella, Eixample and Sants-Montjuïc districts.
  Barcelona Zoo [ Parc Zoològic de Barcelona ]
The zoo first opened its doors in September 1892 on the day of the patron saint of the city, Mare de Deu de la Mercè, celebrated. It was put down at the place which had been released after the Universal Exhibition of 1888 in the Parc de la Ciutadella. The Parc Zoològic is 13 hectares and contains 7500 animals.
  Botanical garden Barcelona
The garden is located on the Montjuïc mountain, southeast of the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium and has approximately 1500 species. The garden is shaped like a large amphitheater and overlooks the city. The construction of the park beautified a neglected part of the mountain between 1940 and 1970 was a slum - the Can Valero. The first botanical garden in Barcelona in the 18th century by Capuchin in Plaça Reial. See Jardín Botánico de Barcelona
  Casa Ametller
Casa Amatller is a building in the Modernisme style in Barcelona, designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch.
  Casa Batlló 
Casa Batlló is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904–1906. See Casabatllo.cat. 
  Casa Milà, La Pedrera   -   see Casamila.com
La Pedrera was the last great civil work with Gaudí performed before dedicating all his time to the construction of the Sagrada Família.
  Cathedral Barcelona   -   Catedral de Santa Eulàlia   -   see Wikipedia 
Gothic cathedral at Plaza de la Seu, named after Holy Eulalia who died as a martyr in 304.
  Columbus Monument   -   Mirador de Colom
Monument for Christopher Columbus at the lower end of La Rambla and constructed for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888). It's at the site where Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the Americas to report to Queen Isabella and Ferdinand, King of Aragon. See Wikipedia. 
  FC Barcelona   -   Soccer
This is the FC Barcelona official website
  Friends of the Ramblas
La Rambla is always a party; a clean color harmany; a soft wordl where the fragrance of the flowers, the song of the birds, the mensage of the newspapers, books and magazines, are mixed with equilibrium with the commercial nerve ans his rich arquitectonic-historic-artistic heritage, that give live and energy to the avenue.
  Funicular de Montjuïc / Montjuïc funicular   -   funicular railway
  Gaudi
La Sagrada Familia, Casa Mila [ La Pedrera ], Parc Güell [ Carrer Olot ], Casa Vicens und Casa Batllo
  Giants of Catalonia [ Giant puppets ] 
The giants are usually hollow figures several meters tall, with a painted papier maché head and arms, the rest of the body being covered in cloth and other clothing. The figures usually depict archetypes of the town, such as the bourgeois and the peasant woman, or historical figures of local relevance, such as a founding king and queen, or pairs of Moorish and Christian nobles. See Agrupació de colles de geganters de Catalunya 
  La Rambla 
La Rambla is a boulevard that runs from the city centre to the waterfront, most of the time crowded with tourists and locals until late at night and lined by florists, bird sellers in the higher part, craft sellers in the lowest, street entertainers, cafeterias and restaurants.
  Market Barcelona  -   Mercat de la Boqueria [ Ramblas ]
  Montjuïc
Barcelona's Montjuïc is a broad shallow hill with a relatively flat top overlooking the harbour, to the southwest of the city centre. The Anella Olympica (Olympic Ring) includes the central venues of the 1992 Olympic Summer Games.
Montjuïc is translated as 'Hill of the Jews' in medieval Catalan, or is perhaps related to the Latin phrase Mons Jovicus ('hill of Jupiter'). See Montjuic Mountain en Kylie Minogue - Slow [ clip of the song is recorded in the former olympic swimmimg pool ].
  Museum about Gaudi   -   Museu Gaudí
The Gaudí Museum is a museum about the architect Antoni Gaudí . The museum is located in Park Güell in a house designed by architect Francesc Berenguer, and where Gaudí himself lived from 1906 until a few months before his death in 1926. See Casa Museu Gaudi.
  Museum about Miro   -   Miró museum
The Fundation Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia. The collection in the museum [ mostly from Miró himself ] includes more than 10,000 art objects: paintings, drawings, sculptures, tapestries and almost the complete graphic work of the Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist Joan Miró and other modern artists like Alexander Calder, Mark Rothko and Marcel Duchamp. See Fondacio Miro.  
  Museum about Picasso   -   Museo Picasso, Carrer de Montcada 15-23
The Picasso Museum in Barcelona is indispensable for understanding the formative years of Pablo Ruiz Picasso. The genius of the young artist is revealed through the more than 3,500 works that make up the permanent collection. However, the Picasso Museum also reveals his relationship with Barcelona: an intimate, solid relationship that was shaped in his adolescence and youth, and continued until his death.
  Olympic Stadium, dates from the Olympic Summer Games 1992.
  Palau de la Musica Catalana
The Palau de la Música Catalana is one of the world's leading concert halls.
Considered to be one of Modernism's chief exponents, it was built by architect Luís Domènech i Montaner between 1905 and 1908. In 1997 it was declared a "World Heritage Site" by UNESCO
  Parc Geull   -   designed by Antoni Gaudí
Park Guell is a city park in the Gracia district in the northeast of Barcelona with an area of ​​15 hectares of dense pine forests, avenues of palms and a tree-lined square. A colorful bank (a giant snake) winds through the park (the Garden of Eden) as a rendezvous place (the apple).
  Parc de la Ciutadella 
The Parc de la Ciutadella is the largest park in Barcelona. It is very popular among the inhabitants of Barcelona . Built in 1888, the park houses a romantic English-style garden surrounded by two tree-lined boulevards, a monumental waterfall and a pond. In this area there are several museums and the zoo of Barcelona.
  Plaça Reial [ Reial [ Royal Plaza ]
Square in the Barri Gòtic of Barcelona. Located next to la Rambla and a well-known touristic attraction, especially at night. On the square you will find a large number of restaurants and some of the city's most famous clubs including Sidecar, Jamboree or Karma. See Lareial.com. 
  Sagrada Familia, church designded by Antonio Gaudí  -  see Sagradafamilia.org
  Tibidado
Tibidabo is a mountain [ 512 meters ] overlooking Barcelona. It gives you a spectacular views over the city and the surrounding coastline. There is an amusement park, a telecommunications tower [ Torre de Collserola ], and a Catholic church, the Temple de Sagrat Cor, at the top, all of which are visible from most of the city. See Tbidabo.es or take a virtual look of Tibidado for yourself : Panorama Tibidado ***
  Torre Agbar   -   38-storey tower
The Torre Agbar is located between Avinguda Diagonal and Carrer Badajoz, near Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, which marks the gateway to the new technological district of Barcelona, Spain. It was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel.
The main materials used in the construction of the building were concrete which comprises the structure of the tower and aluminum and glass in the form of 59,619 strips of painted sheet metal of different colours, covering the approximately 16,000 m2 of exterior surface. In addition, the glass has different inclinations and opacities which combined with the different shades of aluminum alter the colour balance of the tower as a function of time of day and season of the year concerned.
  University of Barcelona 
  Zoo Barcelona  -  Parc Zoologic de Barcelona
Barcelona Zoological Park first opened its gates on the Day of the Mercè, patron saint of Barcelona, 1892. The collection of animals on show there came from a private collection kept by Lluís Martí i Codolar at La Granja Vella, his estate in Horta. He offered the animals to Barcelona City Council, and the mayor, Manuel Porcar, gave his approval to their purchase and the subsequent move to the publicly-owned site that was left vacant in Ciutadella Park after the 1888 Universal Exposition.

  Costa Brava / Girona
  Costa del Geraf 
  Costa Dorada
  Costa Maresme

Cuisine   -   Gastronomy Barcelona

  BCNrestaurantes   -   The best restaurants in Barcelona
Good value for money, Romantic, Incorporation, For groups, Rice dishes, Less than 20 Euros, Music and drinks, Business, With terrace.
  Barcelona Restaurants - New York Times 

History of Barcelona

  Barcelona's history   -   see Wikipedia
The history of Barcelona stretches back well over 2000 years to its origins as an Iberic village, Barkeno. Its easily defensible location on the coastal plain between the Collserola ridge (512 m) and the Mediterranean sea, on the route between central Europe and the rest of the Iberian peninsula, has ...
Content : Origins [ Legends about the foundation of Barcelona ], Roman Barcino, Paleochristian Barcino, Visigoth Barchinona [ Jewish Barchinona ], Muslim Barshiluna, Barcelona in the Spanish Marches, Barcelona under the Crown of Aragón, Barcelona under the Spanish monarchy, The Second Republic and civil war, Franquism and Modern Barcelona.

  Study Barcelona   -   History of Barcelona: Timeline of events

Music, Arts, Barcelona Culture and Events

  Palau de la Música Catalana [ Palace of Catalan Music ]   -   concert hall
It's designed in the Catalan modernista style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner and built for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença [ Catalan Rebirth ]. See Wikipedia.

  Culture of Barcelona

  Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art [ MACBA ].
  Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona 
This Barcelona Centre of Contemporary Culture is situated in El Raval, in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, is a museum adjacent to the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA).
The centre, one of the most visited museums in Barcelona, hosts temporary exhibitions, a cinema, concerts and other cultural events.

  Gaudi [ 25 June 1852 - Barcelona, 10 June 1926 ]
Spanish Catalan architect and the best-known representative of Catalan Modernism. See Wikipedia, Sagrada Familia, Gaudidesigner.com

  List of museums in Barcelona 
  List of theatres and concert halls in Barcelona
  Teatral.net
Revista digital d'Arts Escèniques - Teatre a Barcelona i Catalunya

  Festival Grec de Barcelona   -   International festival
The Grec Festival of Barcelona is the city's main annual date with theatre, dance, music, circus and other stage arts.  Over the years, moreover, the Grec has become not only the most outstanding summer cultural attraction in Barcelona, but also a key reference on the European festival calendar. The festival's title is taken from its main venue, where the opening sessions invariably take place: the Teatre Grec, or Greek Theatre, on Montjuïc, an open-air theatre built for the 1929 Universal Exhibition. See also Youtube canal Grec Festival of Barcelona. 


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