BARCELONA
Barcelona is one of the most popular cities choosing for tourist to enjoy the time in Spain. In Barcelona you can enjoy Spanish gastronomy, the weather, a big cultural offer; “Sagrada Familia” one of the most beautiful catholic buildings around Spain, awesome museums and for sure the kilometres of beaches that you can enjoy. As you can see, this city is a perfect combination between a culture travel and also a place where you can relax with your friends or family.
If you want to enjoy your time during the travel you should think carefully what you need to bring to you and what important things as promotions you need to keep in mind or book before your travel.
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Monuments
Barcelona is a city with a lot of historic, incredible architecture and culture, almost everywhere you can find important and impressive buildings, in the following list are the most important ones that you can not leave the city without visiting them.
The architect was Antoni Gaudí, it is a Minor Basilica with modernisme and Spanish Late Gothic style. To visit this monument you need to book your ticket online.
The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and St. Eulalia (Barcelona Cathedral)
The cathedral was building between the centuries thirteenth and fifteenth. Like an interesting data this building is the largest and most fascinate construction in the country.
This building is from the 14th century, in this Basilica you can observe more Gothic architecture. You can do different tours and visitings in the Basilica like a complete tour or towers and rooftops tour, for this you can buy your tickets online.
Casa Milà (La Pedrera) and Casa Vicens
In both cases the architecture was Antoni Gaudí. Casa Milà is constructive by stone facade in the other hand Casa Vicens has a Neo-Mudejar style.
Hospital de Sant Pau: it is situated in the neighbour of “El Guinardó”
This building is part of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). This hospital was using by people until the year 2009.
Restaurants
In Spain the gastronomy is one of the most important and relevant aspects from the country. It is typical sit down during a sunny day in a terrasse, spanish people love eat and enjoy long meals, that’s why to know and discover the spanish culturel you should go to a Bar and order some “tapas” (typical spanish food) with a beer.
The most popular spanish food is the ham, “Tortilla de patatas” or “Paella”, if you want to be in the Catalan food in special from Barcelona you can not leave the city without trying; the traditional bread with tomato, “Butifarra catalana” or “Crema Catalana”.
Also during the city you can enjoy your meals in restaurants where you are going to try awesome food or going to prestigious restaurants as Àbac or “Cocina Hermanos Torres”.
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Activities
Depending how many days you have to visit the city you can enjoy the different kinds of activities, you can choose between more cultural activities or for entertainment with your family and friends.
A plan according a local
According with our experience in the next section T-Pal recommend you a perfect plan to know as much as possible about Barcelona and enjoy your travel there without struggles.
"The perfect plan"
"To start your days in Barcelona we recommend you to spend our morning visiting “Sagrada Familia”, Casa Milà and Casa Vicens all of this interesting monuments and buildings are near, we recommend you go by walk because of it is a nice and not long walking (30-40 minutes), other option is to take the public transport that works quite well around the city, to do this tour we recommend you take the subway (combination between line 3 and 5).
After this first stop in Barcelona we recommend you to have a typical tapas lunch around the neighbour.
During the afternoon it is a good option to go to parque guell and to the Hospital de Sant Pau both places are near, you can enjoy Gaudí’s architecture going by walk to each place. You can spend during the walk around 30 minutes.
The second day in this beautiful city, TPal recommend move to the Gothic district where you can found: the Cathedral, “Ramblas” and “Basilica de Santa Maria del Mar”, during the morning it is a good option to walk and visit this places that are near the “La Barceloneta” where you can finish your day enjoying the weather in the beach.
The third day in Barcelona if you have time before coming back to your home, depending of your hobbies and the different cultural possibilities you can visit the “Camp Nou”, the Picasso museum or the amusement park “Tibidabo”"
- Carmina -