Important museums

·Museum of Art Contemporary of Barcelona (MACBA)
·CosmoCaixa Barcelona
·Museum of History of Catalonia
·Museum of history of the city
·Museum Maritim
·Foundation of Joan Miró
·Poble Espanyol

Places for a walk

· Palau de la Generalitat
· Plaça de Ramon Berenguer el Gran
· Plaça del Rei
· Palau de la Generalitat
· Cathedral cloisters
· Portal del Bisbe

Some of the most delicious restaurants

La Balsa: la Balsa restaurant is housed in a lovely wooden building with wide windows on the Tibidabo.

L'ESCAMARLA: A place to eat on the beach. Try our specialities: rice, fish and fried dishes.

HARD ROCK CAFÉ: Barcelona's rock'n Roll restaurant maintains the customary magnificentdesign and excellent food which has given the Hard Rock Café fame and prestige the world over.

MARISQUEIRO PANDURIÑOFish-Selfish. Daily reception of Galician products.

Shopping

Some of the commercial shopping in Barcelona are:

El Corte Inglès: with a lot of commercial centers of this.

L’Illa: this commercial center is located in avenue Diagonal.

Maremagnum: in this commercial center there are fashion, food and leisure shops.

The Barceloneta

Originally this was a district of fishermen, but during the last years there has grown an infrastructure of modern gastronomy. You'll find equally elegant and extravagant fish-restaurants as this that fashionable harbour-tavern, visited specially by the young ones.

Gracia

Locals are concentrated at the squares of this nice quarter, like Plaza del Sol and Plaza Rius i Taulet. Everyone finds the right thing here, unimportantly if you are looking for a fashionable local of latest design, or just a charming summer-terrace.

Introduction

Barcelona, located at the Mediterranean sea in the very north of the Spanish coast, is certainly the most cosmopolitan and economically most active city in this country. It has always proved its will to be modern, to follow the latest international tendencies or be ahead of them. To the tourist this is evident specially in its architecture, which so well reflects the general approach to life in this always pulsating city.