Visiting Barcelona Weblog

You will always find something to do in Barcelona. The city has over 50 museums, showcasing permanent collections of works by artists such as Picasso, Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies. At the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) you can see one of the world’s most important collections of Romanesque art. It also has famous collections of contemporary art housed in museums such as the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and CaixaForum. Most museums stage temporary exhibitions.

The city is also a showcase for the best of the country’s theatrical talent. One of the most important cultural events is the “Grec” Summer Festival: a date with theatre, music and dance.
Barcelona is also renowned for its wide variety of musical events, which includes all the genres, and has three major venues: the Gran Teatre del Liceu, devoted to opera, the Palau de la Música, a modernista marvel, and L’Auditori, the concert hall designed by Rafael Moneo.
And that’s not all… You will also find areas where you can play sports in the open air and a whole host of leisure attractions. Barcelona is a box of surprises which will keep you entertained with countless cultural and recreational activities. Source: barcelonaturisme

If one of your activities favorites are to go of purchases, you go to enjoy in Barcelona. city offers multitude of possibilities to go of purchases, with different options, some more economic that the others.

The Stroll of Grace is in which it is known like l’Eixample of Barcelona, and we could say that she is one of the highest zones of city. Here you are going to find the most expensive stores, but also prettier of city. Located in buildings spectacular, as much as soon as to decoration like architectonic speaking. Here you are going to see the stores more pretty and more luxurious of city. It is in this zone where you are going to find the stores of the most prestigious marks ( and more faces) of the world.

In the district of Ciutat Vella (next to the Boulevards) she is one good zone also to go of purchases. Here the stores no they are of the great marks, but rather stores of marks less well-known, but with one very interesting supply. prices are more reasonable than in the Stroll of Grace, but it is worth the trouble to take a walk by these side streets, estrechitas and with much flavor to Barcelona more pure and traditional. Source: voyagerguide

 

The Batlló House. Initially Batlló house was a house normal, like the others. Pero the proprietors ordered one integral reform to the architect and it turned it a small one palace in the middle of the stroll of Grace. The decoration and game of lights that it devised is simply spectacular, specially in the hall main.

Recently they have opened terrace to the public. The visit also it is worth the trouble. It is peculiar since the terrace is very austere, but to he himself time of a beauty without equal. In addition it obtained it demonstrated that she was a person extremely practical: it devised a system so that there was much airflow therefore clothes were dried immediately and no one got wet if it rained!

The entrance leaves by 16 € (it visits the house and terrace), with the tourist bus they make discount and leaves by 12 €. With the entrance they include earpieces, that is to say, it visits is guided. Visítala surroundings at the time of eating for to avoid the tails. Source: voyagerguide

 

The Sagrada Family. Gaudí was extremely religious and his premium builds is indeed Sagrada Family. The Sagrada Family is the only cathedral in construction of the world and at the moment its construction is financed entirely by entrances to the monument and donations that receive. It is anticipated that in about twenty years it will be finalized. The main tower (the dome), still in construction will measure 170 meters.

It is the visited monument more of Spain, with which you we recommended that you go a to visit it first hour (they open to 9h) since in rush hour long tails form. Recently it has passed a to comprise of the patrimony of the humanity of UNESCO. entrance leaves by 8 €. It takes advantage of and it buys the combined entrance with the house - museum of Park Güell since € (2 leaves by 9 € of saving). Source: voyagerguide

Satately house of three floors constructed between 1905 and 1907, only three years! The work was to him ordered by Mr. Güell with the idea to use a plant for them and the rest of floors to rent them. Also it is patrimony of the humanity of UNESCO.

During many years the building practically it was left and it served like block as offices. Luckyly in 1987 were acquired by foundation Caixa Catalunya that it initiated a process of finalized restoration a principles of the 2000 with restoration and opening to public of the terrace and the floor superior. Indeed in superior floor is one totally complete exhibition on the work and the life of Gaudí. In the noble floor is a faithful reproduction of the decoration of that time that illustrates perfectly the life style of those times.

The entrance to the complete house € leaves by 12, with the bus tourist they make discount and € leaves by 10. With the entrance they include earpieces, that is to say, the visit is guided. Visítala surroundings at the time of eating for to avoid the tails. Source: voyagerguide