The Mediterranean Sea caresses the coast of the city of Barcelona, while the Collserola mountain range protects the city for the side west with a very diverse scenery of forests, with cultivation, dry meadows, pine groves, oak woods and vegetation of bank.

The Catalan capital placed to 166 kilometers of the border with France and to 120 kilometers of the south of the Pyrenees, is delimited by two rivers: the Llobregat for the south and the Kisses for the north.

The plain of Barcelona the most next to the coastal mountain range finds splashed of pequéñas hills (Monterols, the Putget, Carmel, the Rovira and the Peira), and formerly there were many you were laughing and small marshlands. Close to the coast the Montjuic mountain gets up, with a 191,7 meters height.

Barcelona, which has a surface of 100,4 square kilometers, is part of the region of The Native of Barcelona, together with Holy Cohillock of Gramenet, Badalona and Sant Adria, in the north, and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, on the south border of the city.

With a population of 1.595.110 inhabitants (INE 2007), Barcelona is the most inhabited second Spanish city and the tenth one of the European Union.

Barcelona offers to the visitor the possibility of covering on foot from the Roman ruins and the medieval city up to the quarters of the Catalan modernism, with his typical buildings, his square apples of sectional singings, his wooded streets and his wide avenues. The ancient city is practically flat, while the new quarters, as they approach the coastal mountain range, acquire more hanging.

Barcelona is known like capital of the modernism. The city, in which he lived and worked the architect Antonio Gaudí is provided with some of his most excellent works, which attract every year million visitors of the whole world.

The most representative is the Expiatory Temple of the Sacred Family, which Gaudí made unfinished and which he keeps on constructing likewise the cathedrals in the Middle Age, with donations and particular contributions.

Others of the works most known about Gaudí are the Park Güell (Parc Güell), the House Milà, also named "The Stone quarry", and the House Batlló.

Gothic quarter:

1. Ajuntament
2. Cathedral
3. Plaça of the Rei
4. Palau of the Generalitat
5. Museu d'Història de la Ciutat
6. Museu Frederic Marès
7. Museu Diocesà

Quarter of the Bank:

1. Església of Santa Maria of the Sea
2. Palau of the Catalan Music
3. Museu Picasso
4. Textile Museu i d'Indumentària
5. Museu Barbier-Mueller

Quarter of The Boulevard and the Raval:

1. Big Teatre del Liceu
2. Palau Güell (1886-1889)
3. The Boqueria
4. Plaça Reial
5. Plaça of Catalunya
6. You go out d’exposicions: Palau of the Virreina / Centers d’Art Santa Monica
7. Center of Culture Contemporània of Barcelona (CCCB)
8. Museu d’Art Contemporani of Barcelona (MACBA)
9. Museu of the Wax

Port, Barcelonet and Olympian Town:

1. Lookout of Colom
2. L'Aquàrium of Barcelona
3. Holy Pailebot Eulàlia
4. IMAX
5. Golondrines
6. Museu d'història of Catalunya
7. Ferry aèri of the Port

Territory Gaudi:

1. House Vicens
2. Pavellons of the Farm Güell (1884-1887)
3. Cabbage · legi of them Teresianes (1888-1889)
4. House Calvet (1898-1899)
5. House Bellesguard (1900-1909)
6. Park Güell (1900-1914)
7. House Batlló (1904-1906)
8. House Milà, “La Stone quarry ” (1906-1912)
9. Tempering Expiatori of Sacred Família (1883-1926)
10. Palau Güell (1886-1889)

The golden Square:

1. Palau Baró de Quadras (1904-1906)
2. House Terrades or House of them Punxes (1903-1905)
3. House Amatller (1898-1900)
4. House Batlló (1904-1906)
5. House Milà, “La Stone quarry ” (1906-1912)
6. Thomas (1895-1898) marries
7. House Macaya (1901-1902)
8. Antiga Casa Montaner i Simón (1880-1885)
9. House Lleó-Morera (1902-1906)

Parc of the Ciutadella:

1. Parc Zoològic of Barcelona
2. Museu of Zoology
3. Museu of Geologiá

Montjuic:

1. Pavelló Mies van der Rohe
2. Antiga Fàbrica Casaramona - CaixaForum
3. Magic Font of Montjuïc
4. I populated Espanyol
5. Jardí Botànic
6. Anella Olímpica
7. Funicular of Montjuïc
8. Telefèric to Castell de Montjuïc
9. National Museu d’Art of Catalunya
10. Fundació Joan Miró
11. Museu Etnològic
12. Museu d’Arqueologia of Catalunya
13. Military Museu

Diagonal and Pedralbes:

1. Palau Reial de Pedralbes
2. Monestir of Pedralbes
3. Museu of the Soccer Club Barcelona President Núñez

Tibidabo:

1. Parc d’Atraccions of the Tibidabo
2. Tower of Collserola
3. Parc of Collserola
4. Dog Coll
5. Tramvia Blau
6. Funicular of the Tibidabo
7. Tibibús
8. CosmoCaixa
9. Parc of the Laberint d’Horta

Glories and Parc of the Forum:

1. Parc of the Forum
2. Edifici of the Forum
3. International center of Conventions of Barcelona (CCIB)
4. Explananda
5. Photovoltaic plant
6. Port Forum
7. Tower AGBAR
8. Auditori
9. Museu of the Music
10. National Teatre of Catalunya (TNC)

Not to forget the Romanesque one in Barcelona:

San Pablo: In the street of San Pablo, who departs from The Boulevard of the Flowers, and in the popular Chinatown of Barcelona, there is the church of San Pablo of the Field

It was part of the monastery of the same name, placed out of the enclosure walled in a raised area dedicated to the cultivation, which spreads towards the sea in the skirt of so called Montjuit "The Field". From the XIVth century it was included inside the new circuit of urban defense remaining linked since then to the city.

The church possesses stoppage of Latin cross with a ship, cruise and three apses. Raised with ashlars worn out and polished in the noble parts as the angles of the structure, the front, the high part of the front, the windows, the blind arcuaciones that surround it in the walls and the apses and in the interiors of the ship.

The front finished off by a matacán of later defender loaded on the pine nut kernel, presents under the eave two groups of three Lombard blind arches on both sides of the ox eye the flat door with an eardrum in relief. In two fascia with down reliefs start the smooth archivolt and the arches moldurados. Under both fasciae two columns with style marble capitals visigoth.

The exterior arch, it is decorated by reliefs of drunk averages, human and animal heads. The symbols of the Evangelists are placed on the arch: a profile angel with the double knee supports a book in which Mateus is read, and the eagle, also of profile, with a roll between his claws with the word Joannes. Another two representations are in the base of the arch like gargoyles, going out of half a body: the lion has the roll ruined between his claws and the bull shows it with the inscription Lucas. In the top center of the front the God's hand appears blessing (to continue in the link)

To get lost for:

The Boulevards
The Olympian Port
Montjuïc
Square Sant Jaume
Square Catalonia
Tibidabo
Gothic quarter
The Sacred Family
The Park Güell
The Zoo
The Square Spain
Park of the Ciutadella
Beaches of Barcelona
The Lyceum

The Poble Espanyol was constructed the year 1929 owing to the International Exhibition of Barcelona like the pavilion dedicated to the art. It is one of few monuments belonging to an International Exhibition that it is still possible to visit.

It was conceived from the first moment as a real “pueblo ” in the heart of a city with a surface of 49.000 m2. The target was to give an idea of what might be an ideal “modelo ” of Iberian Town that was assembling the principal characteristics that every peninsular Town. For this motive they were reproduced, to scale, 117 buildings, streets and squares. The pieces selection was realized bearing in mind criteria of esthetic lace that were allowing a global and harmonic composition the “pueblo project ” that it had been conceived.

Club of Fubol Barcelona - Barca:

The idea of creating a Museu that was gathering the history of the FC Barcelona goes back a twenties, when Joan Gamper, founder of the club, proposed this initiative to his directorate partners.

Museu Histórico: He gathers the centenary history of the club across the most important trophies obtained by the different sections, photos, sports material of all the epochs, audio-visual, anecdotes and a big quantity of pieces and memories that they make thrill.

Collection Futbolart - Pablo Ornaque: The whole universe of curious, ancient objects, related to the history of this sport, framed in an authentic modernist ambience, from the XIXth century until our days.

Information and reservations:
Tel. 902 1899 00
Tel. (+34) 93 496 36 00
Fax (+34) 93 496 37 79

The most commercial area of the city is in his historical center: streets Portaferrisa, Pelayo, Boulevard, Portal of the Angel and Square Catalonia, where the small shops coexist with the department stores and the exemption of big chains of clothes. A little more to the north of the Square Catalonia, in the Walk of Grace (Passeig of Grace), the Boulevard of Catalonia and the Avenue Diagonal (Avinguda), there are the shops of the most international fashionable marks, of articles about skin and about jewelry shop. The articles about design have his place in the alleys of the quarter of the Terminal, which has been acquiring popularity from ends of the 90s.

The most prestigious theaters of the city are at present the Big Theater of the Lyceum, specialized in operas, Teatre Nacional of Catalunya, with three rooms in which the big outstanding figures are represented, and Teatre Lliure, with more avant-garde proposals.

Barcelona has been a stage of diverse world events, which have helped to form the city and to give him international projection. The most excellent have been the Universal Exhibition of 1888 and that of 1929, and the summer 1992 Olympic Games. There is tambén the head office of the secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (ftes and photos to see links and user Maika circuit Almansa 2007)