Category Archives: Barcelona

The park is truly worth a visit, even if it just for a relaxing leisurely walk. It has a lot of possibilities, including lots of monuments and sights. Furthermore, the entrance to the zoo can be found here as well. One of the most pleasurable things to do in the park is renting a boat and rowing around the lake, which can be found in the center of the park. Continue reading →

This is the door of “Casa Güell”, a work of Gaudí. Güell was a rich man with a noble origin –he was Count Guell. He liked Antoni Gaudi’s works very much. Thanks to Güell, Gaudi could do the following works: Continue reading →

A beautiful and happy salamander welcomes people in Park Güell. Continue reading →

Park Güell is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Works of Antoni Gaudí”. Continue reading →

The Poble Espanyol (“Spanish Village”) is an architectural synopsis designed by the architect Joseph Puig I Cadafalch for the Expo in 1929 which took place in Barcelona. The open-air museum with a surface of 49,000 m² consists of 117 buildings which represent the individual architecture styles of the different regions of Spain. Continue reading →

The Columbus Monument (Monument a Colom in Catalan, also known as the Monumento a Colón and Mirador de Colón in Spanish) is a 60 m (197 ft) tall monument for Christopher Columbus at the lower end of La Rambla, Barcelona, Spain. It was constructed for the Exposición Universal de Barcelona and is located at the site where Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the Americas. The monument serves as a reminder that Barcelona is where Christopher Columbus reported to Queen Isabella and Ferdinand after Columbus’ most famous trip. Continue reading →

Barcelona’s port is worth to see day and night. Besides, it has always been a communication core with all the contries in the Mediterranean sea Continue reading →

Port Aventura is teeming with more than a million square meters of fascinating scenery. Discover over thirty thousand types of vegetation. Voyage from the mild Mediterranean climate of Mediterránia to the tropics of Polynesia. Find yourself at the Great Wall of China one minute and at the ruins of Mayan Mexico the next. Join real live cowboys for a taste of the Far West. Continue reading →

Best world artists often come to Barcelona, one of the world music capitals. Continue reading →

La Mercè is the annual festival of the city of Barcelona. It has been an official city holiday since 1871, when the local government first organized a program of special activities to observe the Roman Catholic feast day of Our Lady of Mercy, La Mare de Déu de la Mercè in Catalan. Although the actual feast day is September 24, the festivities begin a few days beforehand.
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