Proud, narcissistic, explosive, full of geniuses and bezdarey, in love and in love, tired and tired ... all this about Barcelona - one of the most beautiful cities of not only Europe but the whole world..When Muscovites are asked what the capital lacks, 9 out of 10 answer - the sea! So, Barcelona is Moscow with the sea, it's mad energy Dali, plague architecture of Gaudi, stunning outfits of the LGBT community, the frenzied traffic of bicycle traffic, stunned parties and endless sangria .It would be crazy to start listing at least part of its attractions in the introduction to the Catalan capital: they meet here literally at every turn, the ancient Roman port breathes history, every stone is ready to tell its legend, and all modern monuments are worth at least a hymn or odes .In a word, Barcelona is a city of arts..Coming here gray, boring, tired and devastated, leaving the city of love with such a charge of creative energy, the sun, strength and good mood, that border guards at the airport cautiously blink .The radiance of Barcelona will remain with you for a long time, illuminating the cozy Russian evenings with a Mediterranean flair .
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How to get to Barcelona
Regular direct flights to the international airport of Barcelona are available from Aeroflot, Iberia and Vueling, in the amount of at least 10 departures per week. The duration of the flight is about 4 hours.
There are also flights with a transfer - Iberia via Madrid, KLM via Amsterdam, Alitalia via Milan or Rome, CSA through Prague, Swiss through Geneva, etc. The lowest fares from St. Petersburg offer LOT with a transfer in Warsaw, Lufthansa via Frankfurt or Munich and the same CSA. In a season from Moscow and many large cities of Russia to Barcelona flights also charters.
Get to the city center from the airport. The easiest way is to take the train that goes to the heart of Barcelona - to Sants station and then to Passeig de Grassia. The journey time is about 20-30 minutes, it is sent regularly from about 6am to midnight every half hour, the fare is about 3 EUR. Also buses and taxis run, but the first ones are too slow, and the second ones are expensive.
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Climate
| Average monthly temperature, ° C | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| in the daytime | + 13 | + 14 | + 16 | + 18 | + 21 | + 25 | + 28 | + 28 | + 25 | + 21 | + 16 | + 13 |
| night | + 6 | + 7 | + 9 | + 11 | + 14 | + 18 | + 21 | + 21 | + 19 | + 15 | + 11 | + 8 |
| of water | + 13 | + 13 | + 15 | + 17 | + 18 | + 22 | + 24 | + 26 | + 25 | + 22 | + 20 | + 16 |
The best time to travel to Barcelona is rather a matter of taste. The swimming season begins in mid-May - early June and lasts until the end of September. The most pleasant time is May and September. The end of July and the first half of August - the time when there are more foreigners on the streets of the city than the inhabitants of Barcelona.
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Kitchen and restaurants
Absolutely unbelievable seafood will be abundant in Barcelona's restaurants. More often other species will catch cod, anchovies, merlans, flounder and fish. In addition to the seafood, the Catalans highly respect the meat, especially roasted on coals and especially pork. As in Valencia, in Catalonia, rice is a great honor: rice with greens, rice with meat, rice with fish or shellfish. The most famous form is paella (cost of a dish from 10-12 euros), as well as the actual Catalan invention - "black rice" with cuttle ink.
On average, a full breakfast in Barcelona (as they call it "English breakfast") will cost 8-10 EUR. It includes bacon or fried sausages, a couple of eggs, toast, beans or mushrooms, coffee and sometimes freshly squeezed juice. For those who are not used to stuffing the stomach with beans and mushrooms in the morning, a traditional breakfast of coffee, juice and a croissant - 2-3 EUR is suitable.
For lunch, you can advise using menu del dia - the Spanish option for a business lunch. It starts to offer hours from 12 pm and up to 4 pm, cost from 10 to 18 EUR. Includes, as a rule, salad, carpaccio or soup (cold tomato gazpacho, for example), then a hot dish, dessert and a drink - beer, a bottle of wine, coffee or juice.
Barcelona hotels - $
In Barcelona, several hundred hotels of different "star" are built: from luxurious luxury to quite democratic ones, working on the "Bed & Breakfast" system. Also available are apartments, hostels and campsites. In the high season, any accommodation option should be booked as early as possible, otherwise you risk losing any choice at all.
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Book popular Barcelona hotels at the best prices
| Hotel Palace GL from 17 161 rubles Barcelona Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 668 | Ohla Hotel from 14 060 rubles Barcelona Via Laietana, 49 | Hotel Arts Barcelona from 18 953 rubles Barcelona Marina, 19 |
| Catalonia Ramblas from 6 479 rubles Barcelona Pelai, 28 | Silken Ramblas from 5 169 rubles Barcelona Pintor Fortuny, 13 | Hotel SB Icaria Barcelona from 4 825 rub. Barcelona Avinguda Icaria, 195 |
| NH Barcelona Centro from 6 823 rubles Barcelona Duc, 15 | Catalonia Avinyo from 4 136 rubles Barcelona Avinyo, 16 | Hotel Turin from 4 825 rub. Barcelona Pintor Fortuny, 9 |
| Hotel Cortes from 2 964 rubles Barcelona Santa Ana, 25 | Hostal Fernando from 2,688 rubles Barcelona Ferran, 31 | Hotel Medium Monegal from 3 171 rubles Barcelona Pelai, 62 |
The beaches of Barcelona
And around, and in Barcelona itself there are excellent sandy and equipped beaches with showers, toilets, bars and restaurants. In the heart of the city - the beach area of Barceloneta, where people like to spend hours both residents and visitors. Renting sun loungers will cost 6 EUR per person, an umbrella - 5 EUR (regardless of the number of people that fit under it). A little to the north of Barceloneta (minutes 10-15 on foot along the embankment) there are even whole beach clubs in which for an extra 2 EUR you can "stake out" your locker room and a storage room.
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Entertainment, Excursions and Attractions in Barcelona
Barcelona is an architectural marvel of Spain, whose attractions attract a huge number of tourists throughout the year. It is an open-air museum, where Gothic masterpieces of the Middle Ages, experimental buildings in the Art Nouveau style and modern trends in art, such as high-tech, are harmoniously combined
Barcelona is divided into ten administrative districts .All the main attractions are concentrated in three: the Old Town (also Gothic Quarter), which is the historical center of the capital of Catalonia; Eixample, or the New Town, built in the 19th century and demonstrating the main works of Gaudi; and Montjuic area, located on the slopes of the hill with the same name .Visiting the most interesting places to visit and visiting museums in one day is impossible .It's best to come here for a week .The heart of the city is the Plaza Catalunya, from which the main pedestrian street and concurrently the local landmark - La Rambla .This boulevard is the border between two quarters: Gothic and Raval .Around the central square is concentrated a great number of attractions: the Columbus monument and the medieval shipyards of Drapasses (now the Maritime Museum), the Exhibition Center of Barcelona, the National Palace, the Palace of Marset .
Old Town and Gothic Quarter
Any list of the best attractions in Barcelona will include the oldest quarter of the Old Town with the speaking name Gothic .Most of the buildings here date from the 14th to 15th centuries .In addition, here you can find the buildings of the times of the ancient Romans .The main attraction is the Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and St. Eulalia, which is considered one of the most beautiful not only in Barcelona, but in all of Spain..It was built from the end of the 13th century to the middle of the 15th century, and today it is he, and not the Sagrada Surname, who serves as the archbishop's residence..
Within the area are the Palace of Real-Major, Ayuntament, the chapel of Santa Agata and the Historical Museum in Piazza Rey, right near the walls of which are archaeological excavations. On the square of San Justa, the constant attention of tourists is attracted by a Gothic fountain, Mojšo Palace and the Church of Santos Hust-i-Pastor. It is worth paying attention to the Palace of Santeles, the Jewish quarter of Cal, the museums of Barcelona, the theaters of Barcelona.
- On the first day, climb onto the observation deck at the Sagrada Familia and look around the surrounding area with an inquisitive look.
- Take a sip of water from the fountain in Plaza Catalunya, to certainly come to the magical Barcelona again.
- For a long time to watch the mimes in the streets, not forgetting about the reward.
- Try a young Spanish wine (a pair of EUR per bottle) and pleasantly surprised.
- Visit the best aquarium in Europe (yes, it's in Barcelona!)
- Day to lie on the shallow sand of the beach at the metro station El Maresme-Forum - people less than on Barceloneta, and the sea is magical.
- To make a cult visit to museums: leaving Barcelona without visiting the Picasso museum is a crime.
- A glimpse at the Camp Nou stadium will impress even those who are far from football.
- Take a leisurely stroll through the Montjuïc mountain.
- And, finally, admire the view of the magic fountains in the Plaza of Spain.
Epsample
The Eixample district was designed in the 19th century, when it became clear that the city needed to be expanded. Straightforward planning has never been used before in Barcelona, and thanks to it architects were able to achieve not only convenience, but also external effects. Now there is a large number of unique buildings in Eixample, among which Gaudí's buildings have become famous. Its famous Sagrada Surname is 170 meters high - one of the symbols of the city.
Sagrada Familia and Gaudi
The multi-tower Sagrada Familia (Sagrada Familia), Antonio Gaudi, began to be built in 1883, but the construction of the temple is still incomplete, which does not prevent it from being the most famous architectural structure in the city..Gaudi himself is rightly considered the most famous and truly outstanding architect of Spain, being also a vivid representative of the Catalan Moderne .The unique buildings he created - one of the most colorful faces of Barcelona .Such creations of the great Gaudi as the palace of Guell in the street Carrer-Nou-de-la-Rambla and the eponymous park, Sagrada Familia, the house of Vicens, the Casa Batlló on Passeig de Gràcia and the house of Mila, nicknamed "Quarry", are guarded UNESCO and must be visited by anyone who comes to Barcelona..Among other things, Calvet mansion and graceful lanterns stand out in Plaza Real - $ .For more information, see Gaudi and Barcelona .
Montjuic
Montjuic is not only the name of the area, but also the name of the mountain, the slopes of which have withstood the World Exhibition of 1929 and the Summer Olympic Games. Fortress, the National Museum of the Arts of Catalonia, the Joan Miró Museum of Art and the Magic Fountain - a must-see minimum.
Excursions in Cinema-Barcelona
The City Tourism Office offers all comers to join the unusual Spanish-English film tours in Barcelona, which start every Saturday at 17:00 from the Columbus Monument in the Portal de la Pau .In the assortment: a walk "together" with Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen or Manuel Werga in the most cinematic places of the city, entertaining stories about the filming of such bands as Tom Perfumer Tom Wyckward, Salvador Manuel Huergi, Spanish Inn ") Cedric Klapish, Vicky, Christina, Barcelona by Woody Allen and" All About My Mother "by Pedro Almodovar .
Duration: 2, 5 hours. The cost is 14 EUR, children under 8 years old are free of charge. You can book a ticket on the website of the tourist office (www.barcelonaturisme.com) or purchase at the meeting place of the group not later than 15 minutes before the excursion starts.
Tourist bus of Barcelona
Perhaps the best chance to see and "imagine" a city, its architecture and districts is provided by a tourist bus .Purchasing a ticket for 1 or 2 days (23 and 30 EUR, respectively), the tourist gets the opportunity to travel non-stop from 9 am to 8 pm on 3 routes laid almost throughout Barcelona - from Montjuic to the Olympic Port and from Tibidabo to the Old Town .The bus stops near the most famous sights (Nats .Palace, Sagrada Familia, Miro Foundation and so on), where you can go and board the bus as many times as you like during the whole day (or two) .Frequency of traveling is 5-10 minutes .In addition, you can listen to the audio guide in Russian with the help of free headphones, which are also issued when you buy a ticket (and this excludes maps and discounts on museums and restaurants) .
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