What to do and visit in Barcelona
The first thing you have to know is that Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid is the capital, really perfect would be about three days in Barcelona to know you slow down and enjoy one of the most beautiful cities Europe, but if you only have a day in Barcelona either because you start cruising the next day or returned from a cruise and only have a day, I will give you some tips and places that you can visit during your short stay in town.
Well......... that depends on each person, of course the best action and not as expensive as they thought would be a tour, this is an excellent way to see Barcelona for you, this is a pernal visit that show you all the Barcelona landmarks, Another way to visit Barcelona is with a group tour of around 20 or 30 people on a coach and a guide, the problem of such tours is that you can not decide to visit or how long you want to be in the places that you are visiting, while the private tour you are the boss and you decide.
But is you are looking for more economical way for visit Barcelona the best option for you will be buy the Barcelona card for one day and take the tourist bus which costs about € 27 for a day and about 34 € for two days, (online shopping)
Our proposal for your day:
THE RAMBLAS & THE GOTHIC QUARTER
All who saw Barcelona if or if you must know the famous Ramblas and the Gothic Quarter charm as it is the historic city center, the Rambla is an avenue that is always full of people, so much shops to buy soubenirs, may visit Barcelona’s most famous market La Boqueria, enjoy street performers and, unfortunately also one of the favorite places for pickpockets, so I advise you to be careful when they are in the middle of Barcelona with their cameras or handbags, also there are many restaurants, although I would not advise you as to any of them, as they are very expensive for the quality they offer, at the end of this article I will leave a link of some restaurants, some cheaper and others more expensive but with a quality totally different from what they can offer in most of the restaurants of the streams, well then follow ………….. Also we visit the Gothic quarter of Barcelona, lost in its narrow streets, visit the Plaza Real where you will find many restaurants and also a busy place at night, do some shopping in one of its craft shops, where you can find Lladró ceramics, skin tents at competitive prices or art galleries should also visit the Cathedral XIII to the XV century and visit the king’s Square where the Catholic Monarchs received Christopher Colon after his return from the Americas and visit the museum history of the city where you can discover part of Roman Barcelona and all its history.
PASEO DE GRACIA AVENUE
One of the most emblematic streets of Barcelona is the avenue of Passeig de Gràcia, in this avenue we can contemplate the Modernist Barcelona early XVIII century and where we visit two emblematic buildings of Antonio Gaudi, the first building you will find is the Casa Batllo Gaudi inspired one of the most popular festivals of Catalonia which is the day of St. George, legend says that St. George killed a dragon and the dragon born a rose and on the St. George day is usually giving roses to loved ones, a few streets up we find the Casa Mila, also known as La Pedrera, Gaudi building also inspired by the ocean waves, the avenue of Passeig de Gracia where was living formerly wealthy people all of the time, currently the most expensive street in Barcelona where all the boutique and world famous brands such as channel-loewe-rolex-.swarovski., and many more, now all avenue buildings are offices and very few people living in this avenue.
THE GÜELL PARK
Park Guell is another Gaudi’s most spectacular buildings, is located just outside the center of Barcelona, this park was built with the idea of building a private residence, also called Garden City for the wealthy in Barcelona, unfortunately the project never was finished and is now a public park and heritage site within the park Guell we find the famous Gaudi lizard, the hall of 100 columns fully decorated with ceramics, is also a perfect place to take pictures of Barcelona and if you want you can visit the house museum where Gaudí spent part of his life.
THE SAGRADA FAMILIA
Of course One of the places to visit in Barcelona is the Sagrada Familia, the unfinished masterpiece of Antoni Gaudi, is simply spectacular, construction began in 1882 and is currently under construction, Gaudí could only finish the facade of nativity which represents the birth of Christ and is a perfect blend of nature and architecture as much Gaudi was inspired by nature to create his works, as important points of the Sagrada Familia must be said that has three main facades 2 of them are almost completed the facade of the nativity and the facade of the passion and is currently building the Glory façade will be the most impressive of all, if you want to visit the Sagrada Familia inside, I advise them to purchase advance tickets or discuss it in private tour for us to buy the tickets and have the need to make the winery tails because they can waste a lot of time and you only have one day in Barcelona.
PLAZA DE ESPAÑA & MONTJUIC MOUNTAIN
The plaza de España was built for the second Universal Exhibition of 1929, in front of the square is Maria Cristina avenue where we find all flags that were used for exposure, a little further up we find the magic fountain of Montjuic, which is a spectacle to watch in the night when water dance to the music and lights, it really very beautiful, in front of the sources we find the national Palace, built also for the second expo 1929, currently the Catalonian Art museum , also known as the Mnac once visited these places we have to climb the mountain of Montjuic was where we visit the facilities of the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, we can also relax in many of the gardens that have the mountain, one of the favorite places for me to take pictures of Barcelona’s Montjuic castle is at the top of the mountain, from where you can take the best pictures of the city, since from the castle can see both harbor area as the urban part of the city.