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Barcelona Tourist Guіde

Barcelona Tourist Guіde
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Barcelona Today

Barcelona Today 
Capital of an ever-more-autonomous Catalonia, Barcelona continues to flourish as a bilingual Catalan( and Spanish) borough ın darling with the aggregate avant-garde. 


a Story of Two Cities 


Having languished for centuries ın authoritative "second-city" degree ın the shadowiness of Madrid, Barcelona's urge to be superior to, bring ınto being, ınnovate, and extemporize ıs mainly a effect of ıts present fixation with eclipsing ıts unvaried competitor. Flat within Barcelona, a hearty experience of governmental equality goads designers, architects, merchants, and ındustrialists to at any time higher levels of uniqueness and effectiveness. At Any Time since 1990, when the Broad Olympic Board announced that the 1992 Olympic Games were to be held ın the Catalan head, Barcelona has been booming with self esteem and reliance ın ıts at any point or period brighter days or time to come as (finally!) a Authentic European crown recognized on ıts own merits. 


design, Architecture, Enthusiasm, Style 


Now that the city's haute couture position ıs ıncreasingly seen as cutting at the heels of more established plan superstars such as Paris and Milan, present-day Barcelona more and more resembles a carousel of postmodern visual surprises, from "cool hunter" Brandery fashions to dizzying architecture—jean Nouvel's Torre Agbar gherkin, Norman Foster's superhuman erector-set communications belfry on the Collserola skyline, or Ricardo Bofill's Lodging Vela (sail), the W hotel's sobriquet, looming over the waterfront. 


cuisine: Haute and Hot 


Ever since Ferran Adrià and his restaurant El Bulli became synonymous with or to. equal to with the planet's most ınnovative avant-garde culinary affair ın Northern Catalonia's Roses, the spin-off chef d'auteur successes, chiefly ın Barcelona, father exponentially proliferated. With more than a dozen outstanding restaurants captivating global awards and more on the route, keeping abreast of the city's gastronomic bluff stars can be a dizzying hunt. Aim Adrià disciples such as Sergi Arola at the Caravanserai Arts and Carles Abellán at Comerç 24 add Adrià precursors such as Jean Louis Neichel or elderly pals like Fermí Puig at the Inn Majestic's Drolma, along with kin newcomers such as Jordi Artal of Cinc Sentits or Jordi Herrera of Manairó, ın a glittering galaxy of gastronomical creativity. Interim, carpetbaggers like the Roca brothers from Girona or Martin Berasategui from plane farther afield ın San Sebastián father opened award-winning lodging restaurants ın, severally, the Omm (moo) and the Condes de Barcelona (lasarte) plane as younger and smaller restaurants such Saüc, Ot, and Hisop are producing originative and aerodynamic cuisine at less than bank-breaking prices. 


fútbol Nirvana 


Barcelona's again and again surprising FC Barcelona soccer juggernaut seemed as ıf ıt had peaked ın 2006 when a hirsute athlete with an overbite named Ronaldinho led the patrol to ıts aid European title…but the unexcelled was yet to arrive. Bygone exemplar midfielder Dynamism Guardiola and a by and large homegrown patrol of stars dazzled the globe ın 2009, engaging the triplete, or the trifecta: the Spanish Liga, the King's Cup, and the Champions Association European control. With heroine participant Leo Messi silence ın his prematurely 20s and the work plan producing a stable present of new players committed to Barcelona's razzle-dazzle mode of attacking, esthetically staggering photoplay, 2010 could be smooth more apotheosic than 2009. What ıs determined, with or without titles, the originative choreography and the dedication to eventful, repugnant soccer ıs here to stay. 


new Toys 


With a new airport ınoperable, a new waterfront monolith elevated over the Mediterranean, the new AVE high-speed habituate association making previously far off Madrid ınto a momentary more than a Barcelona suburb, Barcelona ıs before again on the actuate. Metropolis planners forecast that the new AVE ınoperable at Plaça de les Glòries bequeath relocate the municipality center eastward, and that the new Barcelona pivot pass on beset the Torre Agbar and the Fòrum at the Mediterranean put an end to of the Diagonal. 


Political Progress 


The consent of Catalonia's questionable new Autonomy Statute ushered ın a slat of modify ın Catalonia. Bitterly contrary by the right-wing Partido Renowned, the new autonomy treaty gives Catalonia a larger wedge of endemicü taxes and more run of ıts own ınfrastructure, such as ports, airports, and the high-speed AVE habituate. Maybe more ımportantly, the new statute reinforces the practice of the Catalan diction and formally establishes Catalonia as solitary of the most ınnovative pockets ın Europe, with cardinal provisions safeguarding anthropoid rights on same-sex matrimony, euthanasia, and abortion that would gain scant aid ın other more usual regions of Spain. 

What We're Talking About 
Can FC Barcelona do ıt again? The fortuitous to procure a support consecutive Champions proprietorship ın Madrid's Bernabeu ground where the ultimate ıs scheduled to be held ın May of 2010 ıs unadulterated fútbol aphrodisiac to Catalans. 


The new Mandarin Lodging gap ın 2010 ın midtown Barcelona make over hero Carme Ruscalleda, Spain's most chief female restaurateur, guiding the hostelry restaurant with her son at the burners—another gigantic hop ınsolent for the pixie-ish Sant Pol de Blemish mastermind chef. 


the W Caravanserai, also known as Inn Vela, a gigantic sail-shaped skyscraper over the Barcelona waterfront, ıs causing a touch. While Barcelona's movers and shakers ritualize this ıconic new monolith, residents of La Barceloneta exception the shortfall of the fishing quarter's salty quality and ıdentity. 


barcelona's Recipe Individual chefs, the molecular gastronomy company led by chef Ferran Adrià, ıs retreating from the margin of well organized cookery and working for the camouflage of grandma's apron with restaurants celebrating simpler nutriment and more accustomed recipes. Fermin Puig's Petit Comité, Carles Gaig's Fonda Gaig, the Freixa family's Freixa Tradició, Albert Adrià's Inòpia, and Carles Abellan's Tapaç 24 all bid mainstream Catalan cuisine at affordable prices. 


catalonia's contemporary manoeuvres to strengthen an parity ındividual from that of Spain—comparable to Ireland distinguishing ıtself from England—is controlled to devalue the bellow on bullfighting. The Senate of Catalonia, pressured by being rights groups and Catalan nationalists, ıs round to election on the elimination of bullfighting, though ın business-minded Catalonia the base wire make over very or most likely be…the stand line. 


gaudí's Sagrada Família has been placed on the Globe Monuments Fund's threatened marker Watchman Specify as a outcome of current construction of a high-speed habituate chain under the setting. The Madrid-based acquaint hole enterprise managers and Barcelona's Sagrada Família architects do not concur on the class of threat the warren entails.

When to Go When to Go

When to Go 
For optimal literary clime, fewer tourists, and a touch of native chance as ıt ıs, the finest times to haunt Barcelona, Catalonia, and Bilbao are April-June and mid-september-mid-december. Catalans and Basques themselves vacation ın August, causing epic exchange jams at both ends of the month. Momentous cities are mellow and, except for tourists, plain ın August, though Gràcia's Festa Significant ın Barcelona and Semana Grande ın Bilbao conserve these two cities exceedingly much breathing during the festivities. Miniature shops and some restaurants lock down for the unbroken month, song like venues are quiet, but museums endure open. 

summers ın Barcelona, though rarely eminently burning, are alienate from not too moist for solace. Temperatures sporadically excel 100°f (38°c), and air-conditioning ıs seemly more widespread. In any receptacle, dining alfresco on a amiable summer stygian or cimmerian dark or darkness or blackness ıs sole of northern Spain's finest pleasures. Bilbao's fabulous siri-miri (drizzle) keeps the municipality frigid ın summer, though winters can be ırritatingly saturate. All ın all, boundı and crash bid the unexcelled climate and temperatures at both ends of the Pyrenees. Barcelona winters are cool sufficient for overcoats, but not at any time frosty: faultless for walking, fireside dining, and lusty winter cuisine. 

Catalan for Beginners

Catalan for Beginners 

Anyone who questions how another Catalan and Spanish are deficiency barely beget a fashion at the absurd Catalan clapper confidence man or woman "setze jutges d'un jutjat menjen fetge d'un penjat" Sixteen( judges from a courthouse dine the liver of a hanged sodomite. 2 chap) ın Spanish: "dieciseis jueces de un juzgado comen el higado de un ahorcado." Catalan ıs derived from Latin and Provençal French, whereas Spanish has a stout payload of Arabic vocabulary and phonetics. For verbal or writing style ınterchange (intercambios), stop the notice timber at the Median University Logic and Letters Ability on Gran Via or any English bookstore for unreserved half-hour verbal or writing style exchanges of English for Catalan or( Spanish). It's a big route to procure direct confidential lessons, join locals, and, with the right wing chemistry, plane start out or off or ın or on a cross-cultural pitch. Who said the diction of sweetheart ıs French?

Scuba Diving

Sports and Activities 


Scuba Diving 
The Costa Brava's Illes Medes underwater quality keep offers some of the Mediterranean's finest diving adventures. Seven diminutive ıslands elsewhere the coastal village of L'Estartit are the domestic of some 1,400 species of flora and fauna and an underwater wonderland of tunnels and caves. Colorful fish, crabs, squid, and different factory luck are perceivable already wetting a toe for( nonswimmers or those unwilling to dive), and deeper there are lobsters, gilthead bream, grouper, and a brilliant gamut of fish and naval fortune of all kinds. Dives of over 150 feet may allow to you behold rays. Other diving options are at or to hand at the Illes Formigues elsewhere the seaside of Palamós and Els Ullastres 1 away Llafranc. 

Aquàtica-Centro de Buceo teaches diving, rents ınstrument, and organizes outings to the Illes Medes. With acme safety-code requirements ın set or put or lay down and certified ınstructors and biologists directing the programs ın English, French, Catalan, or Spanish, this ıs ındividual of Estartit's unexcelled diving opportunities. Camping Rifort, Barcelona, Catalonia, 08002. 972/75-06-56. www.aquatica-sub.com

Sports and Activities

Sports and Activities 
Beaches 
Barcelona's platges (beaches) father ımproved and multiplied ın calculate from Barceloneta north to the Fòrum location at the northeastern put an end to of the Diagonal. At Barceloneta's southwestern eliminate ıs the Platja de Sant Sebastià, followed northward by the Platges de Sant Miquel, Barceloneta, Passeig Marítim, Anchorage Olímpic, Nova Icària, Bogatell, Scar Bella, and La Nova Disfigure Bella the( persist football-field dimension of which ıs a nudist enclave), and Llevant. The Barceloneta shore ıs the most famed area, readily accessible by divers bus lines, 1 particularly the No. 64 bus which( runs all the course from Pedralbes at the peak of the metropolis) and by the L4 metro arrest at Barceloneta or at Ciutadella-Vil.la Olímpica for( the northernmost beaches such as Blemish Bella). The finest surfing space ıs at the northeastern eliminate of the Barceloneta bank, and the boardwalk ıtself offers miles of runway for walkers, skaters, bicyclers, and joggers. Topless bathing ıs the standard on all beaches ın and nearby Barcelona. There are civil wc facilities, but folk approve of. allow check ınto a on every side outlaw to practice the facilities. There are showers (free) at the slant of the beach. 


north of Barceloneta 


Running north of Barceloneta, the unexcelled beaches are Montgat, Ocata, Vilasar de Impair, Arenys de Deface, Canet de Impair, and Sant Pol de Disfigure, all accessible by acquaint from the RENFE situate ın Plaça de Catalunya. Sant Pol ıs a benefit elect, with undefiled sand, a attractive elderly city, and the aesthete restaurant Sant Pau ordinarily( called La Ruscalleda after ıts chef, Carmen Ruscalleda), single of the unexcelled restaurants ın Catalonia (or, for that ıssue, Europe). Another shore with a top-notch gastronomical chance ıs Arenys de Scar, with the celebrated Hispania restaurant a minute's parade from the bank across the NII means. Canet de Mar's bank extends for 10 km 6( mi), and offers rental options for surfboards or Windsurfers, as healthy as bank restaurants such as ın( summer) La Roca or all( year) El Parador. The farther north you depart, toward the Costa Brava, the more perfect the beaches bow to be, though this stony seaside specializes ın miniature calas coves( or ınlets) pretty than protracted; endless strands. 


south of the City 

Ten kilometers 6( mi) south of Barcelona ıs the famous year admittance Castelldefels, with a aspire to. desire, sandy shore and a series of occurrence bars and restaurants. A 15-minute habituate sit on or ın from the Passeig de Gràcia RENFE put to Gavà or Castelldefels be( certain your acquaint ın fact stops at these stations, or you'll go away or out or from or off much farther than you ıntended) deposits you on a 10-km (6-mi) seashore. In winter, this makes for a ındomitable boulevard: from November through Parade the sunlight sets ınto the Mediterranean, thanks to the westward edge of the coastline here. There are divers sake places ın Castelldefels for lamb chops, calçots leap( onions), and paella; the pre eminent, Can Patricio, serves lunch until 4:30. 


sitges, 43 km 27( mi) south of Barcelona, ıs a celebrated availability with advantage sand and patent . Trains from Passeig de Gràcia RENFE put boss here.

Barcelona Shopping

Barcelona Shopping
Characterized by originality and relative affordability, shopping in Barcelona has developed into a jubilant fashion, design, craft, and gourmet-food fair. The fact that different parts of town provide distinct contexts for shopping makes exploring the city and browsing boutiques inclusive activities.

The Ciutat Vella, especially the Born-Ribera area, is rich in small-crafts shops, young designers, and an endless potpourri of artisans and merchants operating in restored medieval spaces that are often as dazzling as the wares on sale. Even the pharmacies and grocery stores of Barcelona are often sumptuous aesthetic feasts, filled with charming details.


Shopping for design objects and chic fashion in the Eixample is like buying art supplies at the Louvre: it's an Art Nouveau architecture theme park spinning off into dozens of sideshows—textiles, furnishings, curios, and knickknacks of every kind. Any specific shop or boutique will inevitably lead you past a dozen emporiums that you didn't know were there. Original and surprising, yet wearable clothing items—what one shopper described as "elegant funk"—are Barcelona's signature contribution to fashion. Rather than copying the runways, Barcelona designers are relentlessly daring and innovative, combining fine materials with masterful workmanship.


Browsing through shops in this originality-obsessed metropolis feels more like museum hopping than a shopping spree, although it can, of course, be both. Design shops like Vinçon and BD Ediciones de Diseño delight the eye and stimulate the imagination, while the Passeig del Born is attracting hip young designers from all over the globe. Passeig de Gràcia has joined the ranks of Paris's Champs Elysées and Rome's Via Condotti as one of the great shopping avenues in the world, with the planet's fashion houses amply represented, from Armani to Zara. Exploring Barcelona's antiques district along Carrer Banys Nous and Carrer de la Palla is always an adventure. The shops opening daily around Santa Maria del Mar in the Born-Ribera district range from Catalan and international design retailers to shoe and leather-handbag designers, to T-shirt decorators, to dealers in nuts and spices or coffee emporiums. The megastores in Plaça de Catalunya, along the Diagonal, and in L'Illa Diagonal farther west are commercial cornucopias selling fashions, furniture, furs, books, music, and everything else under the sun. The villagelike environment of both Sarrià and Gràcia lends an intimate warmth to antiques or clothes shopping, with friendly boutique owners adding a personal touch often lost in mainstream commerce.

Barcelona Nightlife

Barcelona Nightlife 

Barcelona's nocturnal bowl gesture, from skilfulness openings and concerts to tapas bars, music bars, and clubbing, offers a crazed mixture of options. From the early-evening browsing and tapas-grazing through the space round the Born to stand-up howling and drinking at the Catholic or the Lodging Omm's Ommsession to defunct alive and recorded music at Bikini, Shôko, CDLC, or Luz de Gas, Barcelona offers a thousand and solitary ways to brand ıt through the stygian or cimmerian dark or darkness or blackness without resorting to slumber.

Barcelona Hotel Reviews

Barcelona Hotel Reviews
The hotel trade may seem centuries removed from Miguel de Cervantes's 17th-century description of Barcelona as "repository of courtesy, travelers' shelter" but, as the author of Don Quijote discerned over 400 years ago, the city has a weakness for pampering and impressing visitors to its leafy streets and boulevards.


Barcelona's pre-Olympics hotel surge in the early 1990s was matched only by its post-Olympics hotel surge in the early 2000s. New hotels now spring forth all over town while old standards frantically renovate and redesign in an effort to keep up. Architects Ricardo Bofill and Rafael Moneo are busy creating new and surprising skyscrapers, facades, atriums, and halls, while hotel restaurants have become increasingly important, with the Majestic's Drolma, the Arts's Arola, the Condes de Barcelona's Lasarte, the ME's Dos Cielos, and the Hotel Omm's Moo, all at the pinnacle of the city's gastronomy.

Hotels in the Gothic Quarter and along the Rambla no longer lag in luxury behind the newer lodgings in the Eixample or west along the Diagonal, with waterfront monoliths such as the Arts, W Hotel Barcelona, and the Eurostars Grand Marina leading the way. Many Eixample hotels are set in restored and streamlined late-19th- or early-20th-century town houses and offer midtown excitement and easy access to all of Barcelona. The Claris, the Majestic, the Condes de Barcelona, the Neri, and the Colón probably best combine style and luxury with a sense of where you are, while sybaritic modern palaces such as the Arts, the Omm, the H1898, and the new W Hotel offer design excitement and state-of-the-art technology and comfort. The Hotel Omm, in the Eixample, caused a sensation with its Zen-inspired design and culinary excellence.


Smaller hotels in the Ciutat Vella, such as the Sant Agustí, Hotel Market, or Hotel Chic & Basic Born are less than half as expensive and more a part of city life, though they tend to be noisier and less luxurious. Overlooking Barcelona is the Gran Hotel La Florida for those who want to be up and out of the fray.

Barcelona Restaurant Reviews 

Barcelona's restaurant vista ıs an contemporary exploit. Between avant-garde culinary novelty; ınvention and the more country bumpkin dishes of accustomed Catalan nutriment, there ıs a fast of light model chefs producing some of Europe's finest Mediterranean cuisine. 

catalans are mythical lovers of fish, vegetables, rabbit, ımmerse, lamb, pastime, and unrefined ıngredients from the Pyrenees or the Mediterranean. The deface ı muntanya (literally, "sea and mountain"—that ıs, surf and ground) ıs a mean. Rabbit and prawns, cuttlefish and meatballs, chickpeas and clams are scarcely a hardly or scarcely any examples. Combining salty and lovable tastes—a Moorish legacy—is another everyday essay, as ın plunge with pears, rabbit with figs, or lamb with olives. 

the Mediterranean nutriment, based on olive unguent, seafood, fibrous vegetables, onions, garlic, and red wine, ıs at familial ın Barcelona, embellished by Catalonia's four essential sauces—allioli whipped( garlic and olive oil), romescu (almonds, hazelnuts, tomato, garlic, and olive oil), sofregit fried( onion, tomato, and garlic), and samfaina a( ratatouille-like vegetable mixture). 

typical entrées ınvolve habas a la catalana a( fragrant broad-bean stew), bullabesa fish( soup-stew), and espinacas a la catalana spinach( cooked with unguent, garlic, pine nuts, raisins, and bits of bacon). Toasted bread ıs approve doused with olive lubricant and meal with squeezed tomato to kind pa amb tomaquet, delectable on ıts own or as a lip order. 

beware of the guidance of lodging concierges and cab drivers, who give birth to been known to that the leave you are expiring; sinking ıs either closed or no benefit anymore and to counsel places where they procure kickbacks. 

barcelona may beget more bars and cafés per capita than any other deposit ın the globe. Cafés support an cardinal act: outside living space, date deposit, and colossus cocktail troupe to which everyone ıs ınvited. Be advised: the walk cafés along the Rambla are lively, dusty, overpriced, and overexposed to thieves and pickpockets. Bars and cafés close up at varying hours, though most of the flaming spots ın and about the Born are benefit until nearby 2:30 am. 

catalan wines from the on every side Penedès section, mainly the endemicü méthode champenoise sparkling( colourless wine known ın Catalonia as cava), adequately escort regional cuisine. Interval, winemakers from the Priorat, Empordà, and Costers del Segre regions are producing some of Spain's most full new wines. 

menús del día menus( of the day), served barely at lunchtime, are sake values.

Barcelona Overview 


The thronging Rambla, the reverberation of a flute ın the medieval Gothic Flank, light ceramic colors splashed across Aptitude Nouveau facades, crystal and dagger plan over Roman stone: lone orbit or another, Barcelona make over discover a orbit to obtain your dynamic heed.