Barcelona City Guide

About the city:

Barcelona the capital of Catalalunya is considered one of the most dynamic and exciting cities and severely independent-minded northeastern region of Spain. Barcelona is also known as the Spain's hippest town. Originally founded as Barcino by the Romans during the reign of Emperor Augustus (27B.C - 14 A.D), Barcelona later became the most powerful Catalan earldoms and a leading power in the Mediterranean Seaboard.

Barcelona is a fantastic country and a feast of Catalan Art Nouveau buildings, featuring the great creation of an eccentric genius named Antonio Gaudí. Full of contrasts and colors of fashion, architecture, food, style, music and good times, it is the cheapest city of Spain. Its location crafts it as the perfect arrival point to its visitors to see sceneries and enjoy the nature. Its radius is 200 kilometers, which offers a leisure appeal, a wealth of culture and art, with significant collections by Picasso and Miró and lots of week-long fête fun.

Tourist attractions:

With its fascinating green walks and architecturally rich avenues, Barcelona is really a walker’s paradise. A tree-lined pedestrian avenue, La Rambla (or Las Ramblas) is a lively and entertainment spectacle, justly renowned throughout the world. This living edge of entertainment is jam-packed with buskers, living statues, mimes and roving salesperson offering everything from sweepstake tickets to jewellery. Here you can see a grand 18th-century rococo mansion Palau de la Virreina, La Rambla's most colourful market, the Mercat de la Boqueria, famous 19th-century opera house Gran Teatre del Liceu and monument to Columbus Monument a Colom.

A visit to the city's Museu d'Historia de la Ciutat is a great way to learn more about the history and the cultures of Barcelona that have shaped it from its days as a Roman colony to the present . Barcelona has everything from traditional regional food, to Sushi, Chinese, Pakistan, Indian, Mexican, Italian, Russian and whatever else you can think of. Habana Vieja, a little hole in the wall located near the Museo Picasso that serves the best Cuban food in Barcelona.

Truly astonishing La Sagrada Familia is an excellent presentation of magnificent steeples of the unfinished cathedral work of Barcelona's favorite son, Antonio Gaudí. A fine example of chivalric architecture,Palau Reial or the Royal Palace, is also an amazing architectural masterpiece, having an outstandingly attractive wood-paneled banquet hall, with a sequence of amphiprostylar galleries.

Barcelona also offers the playing sports where the tourists enjoy sports in the open air and an entire mass of leisure attractions such as the Tibidabo Amusement Park and the old Harbour area and the Port Vell. But it is not an end- it will maintain your entertainment with its limitless cultural and leisure activities.

Close Destinations:

Barcelona is a fantastic city to visit with its outstanding neighborhoods that makes it more trompe-l'oeil for the visitors. Generally Barcelona is an easy city to get around and you can choose Tourist Bus-services available in the city, which visit most of the main attractions. The metro is the easiest way to get around the city and you can also go for buses or suburban trains by getting the multiple-trip city tickets that offer worthwhile savings.

The beach near the Villa Olimpica is the best place to relax, La Oveja Negra, here the atmosphere is so good, is also known as rustic tavern," The Cathedral--the most beautiful church”. The Costa Brave offers some truly spectacular locations anywhere along the coast for a day trip.

50km northwest of Barcelona, Montserrat ( Serrated Mountain), a 1236m high mountain shaped by an assortment of limestone, pebbles and sand, makes a great outing from Barcelona.

Hotel rates and charges:

Barcelona offers a warm welcome with lots of accommodation options as hotels-set according to their distance and by category such as 5-star, 4-star, 3-star etc, and motels, B&Bs etc that fall in the price range $36 to 250$ based on style, position and facilities required by you. Accommodation may be cheaper in winter except around New Year.

Accommodation:

When arranging your Barcelona accommodation, there is only the one key stage that you need to go through to ensure you make the right decisions. You have to browse one of the leading traveling websites--hotel-listings-online.com that will offer you an elite range and brilliant quality of the right location and the right type for your tranquil and delighted accommodation with the most competitive price not only in the city but also in USA, UK, and Europe and around the world with outstanding room services.

Lodging:

In Barcelona almost all the hotels offer in-house facilities for meetings, social events and extensive conference facilities and services with restaurant, bar, swimming pool, etc. the rooms are equipped with air conditioning, satellite TV, telephone, mini-bar and safe, balcony and bathroom.

Hotels also provide some exclusive facilities too, as conference room with Fax service, baby sitting, internet access, location events, adventure activities, health spas, gym, sauna and relaxation treatments, piano bar and many more facilities offered by the hotels.

Weather conditions:

The weather in Barcelona is pleasant most of the year round. However you'll experience the absolute best weather from mid April to the end of July. September is also a good month. August can be the hottest during the day (sometimes peaking around 34°C, 95F) so if you love saunas then this is the time of the year for you !

The weather in October and November is still pleasant but starting to get a little cooler (21°C down to 15°C, 69 to 59F). From November to February the temperatures are cooler averaging around 12°C or 53F. The coldest month, January has a mean temperature of about 9 ° C.

Amazing and amusing facts about the city:

A masterpiece of its chivalric inheritance, the Barri Gòtic's catedral, is one of Spain's greatest Gothic buildings. The city’s cultural agenda offers a large variety of shows, popular festivals, theatre, dance, music, opera, flamenco and periodical contemporary art exhibitions. City is loaded with over 40 museums, single artist exhibitions such as the Museu Picasso, the Fundacio Joan Miro, and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the largest collection of Roman art in the world, and a large number of art galleries.