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Barcelona Beaches guide

March 26th, 2010

sight-beach frontSince 1992 , year of Barcelona Olympic games, there are 4.2 km of golden sandy beaches only 10 mins from the city centre.

1) The Barceloneta Beach. This is the first beach close to city centre. You can get there with metro (yellow line) stop Barceloneta. Walk on the Passeo Joan Borbo full of sea food restaurants, cafés with terrace. At the end you will see the sea and the new W hotel, the Vela, as it looks like a sail boat. Barcelona out and inside swimming pool is on your right as the nudist beach.  Many small streets in this area with linen hanging on the windows, restaurants, cafés, shops.

2) The Vila Olimpica Beach Metro stop Vila Olimpica.This area has been built in 1992 to host  the athletes of the Olympic games. The luxury Arts Hotel, one of the 2 towers you will see on front shore and the strange huge copper goldfish sclupture by american architect Frank Ghery . There are some good restaurant on the sea shore, the Bestial is one of them.

3) The Icaria Beach has wider sandy beaches. Parking facilities.

bar-chiringito4) The Bogatell Beach quieter and wider beaches, water is cleaner. Also parking facilities. More dedicated to families and sailing sports. Nice chiringuintos (cafés on the beach) with own Dj plaing in summer time. Metro Stop Bogatell

5) The Marbella Beach further from city centre, close to Poble Nou area. Nudist beach section. Bars.

6) The Nova Mar bella beach is next to Poble Nou park  area and close to the new Forum congress centre. Good tip : on Sundays barbecue at the nautical centre on the beach.

By train you can go to Castelldefels beaches, long empty sandy beaches or to Sitges, cosy small city with friendly atmosphere. Small and crowded beaches in summer. Nice marina area with restaurants and bars.

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City Guide: La Barceloneta

February 11th, 2010

Let’s go to the playa by tube?
Barcelona: 4km of beaches, 10 min away from the centre & 272 sunny days a year. Get tanned on the beach, dive into the waves, surf, windsurf and kitesurf. Go jogging, roller-skating or cycling on the Passeig Maritim or wander in the marina while taking a look at the beautiful yachts and sailing boats.

Wanna sip a Mojito at the Chiringito (a bar on the beach)? Feel like paella or seafood on the seashore? The Barceloneta has an exquisite taste of holidays.

The Barceloneta, built over the sea in the 18th c., once was a village of fishermen, sailors and soldiers. With its standard buildings bloks and washing hanging out of the windows, the area has retained its working class touch.

Passeig Maritim : a stroll along the sea down to the Port Olympic (bars, restaurants, night clubs and casino).

Cable Car : Barcelona from the sky.

San Juan : fiesta on the beach (end of June).

La Barceloneta

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Discover Barcelona with our City Guides – select an area

February 11th, 2010

Select an area for more details: El Gotic – Rambla, El Born, Eixample, Gracia, El Raval, La Barceloneta


El Gotic – Rambla

The historical centre of Barcelona from Plaza Cataluna down to the old harbour (Columbus statue), alongside the Rambla:  1,3 km…

To be seen :

  • The Ramblas & the living statues
  • The Plaza Real
  • Medieval streets
  • Tapas bars, shops, restaurants

El Gotic - Rambla

El Borne

Previously a working-class area, the Born is now the trendiest place in town, where yesterday’s charm blends with today’s lifestyle. Art…

El Borne

  • Picasso museum
  • Santa Maria del Mar basilica
  • Ciutadella’s park
  • Fashion shops & trendy bars

Eixample

The new city: the end of the 19th century the city spread to the north with 9km2 of building blocks. The economic & commercial nerve…

To be seen :

  • Passeig de Gracia boulevard
  • Modernist architecture
  • Gaudi Sagrada Familia

Eixample

Gracia

You will love this charming neighbourhood, an ancient village enclosed in the city, in the centre of Barcelona. Many shops, retro workshops and…

To be seen :

  • Plaza del Sol by night
  • Trendy restaurants

Gracia

El Raval

The Raval used to be a low-class area & is divided into two areas by the Carrer Hospital.
NORTHERN PART: upcoming and hip part of Barcelona!

To be seen :

  • MACBA : contemporary art
  • Boqueria market
  • Palau Güell

El Raval

La Barceloneta

Let’s go to the playa by tube?
Barcelona: 4km of beaches, 10 min away from the centre and 272
sunny days a year. Take the sun…

To be seen :

  • 4 km of beaches
  • The Olympic port
  • Seafood restaurants

La Barceloneta

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Traditional Catalan Restaurant Can Solé in Barcelona

October 19th, 2009

can-sole

Restaurant Can Solé from 1903
carrer Sant Carles 4
Barceloneta ( near the Barceloneta market)
Ph : 00 34  93 221 50 12
Website Can Solé

Many regular costumers in this restaurant which has been able to keep up with qualiy and price through the years.

Catalan, mediteranean and market cooking.  Its best recipees are the Fidua, ham croquets,  the caldoso rice…
lot of fishes recipees,  like the famous catalan Bacalau ( salted dry fish). Meat, deserts.  Big choice of wines, wite, red, rosés, Champagnes, cavas.

Many famous spanish people have come to eat in the restaurant.  Spanish magazine and newspapers have written on it. The famous  Zagat american magazine wrote a very nice article on this restaurant, the New York times made a report on it a few years ago. The french  travel guide “Guide du Routard” has its logo ( given only if the restaurant is keeping a good level)  every year at the entrance of the restaurant, it is well known that french people take cooking very seriously !

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The Barcelona Zoo – famous for the White Gorilla

October 8th, 2009

zoo Copito de Nieve-ex-Star of the Zoo

Barcelona Zoo
Park de la Ciutadella
Metro Barceloneta, Arc de Triumf, Jaume
Francia train station
Web Barcelona zoo

Opening hours :

26th of October until 15th of March : from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
16th of March to 31st of May : from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
1st of June to 25th of October from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Price 2009 : adult 16 €  Children (3-12 years ) 9,60 €

The zoo has a wide variety of animals to see. Lots of monkeys, gorillas,  crocodiles, 2 olifants, zebras, snakes, birds…
The Zoo also has a restaurant, picnic area, a big nice playground,  a shop, electric cars, ponies and a mini-train.

For nearly 40 years an albino gorilla named Snowflake was adored by people around the world.
In 1967, local villagers in Africa’s Equitorial Guinea captured a remarkable baby gorilla. This young male was unlike any gorilla the villagers had seen before; instead of the thick brown fur of most gorillas, this baby had a coat of pure white. Through a series of fortunate circumstances, the rare white gorilla ended up at the Barcelona Zoo, where he became an international star. He was given the Spanish name Copito de Nieve and the English name Snowflake.

Copito de Nieve died in the fall of 2003.

Four of Snowflake’s children are still alive : three females, Kena, Machinda, and Virunga, live at the Barcelona Zoo. One male, Bindung, resides at the Fukuoka Zoological Garden in Japan. Nine grandchildren also survive, five of whom are still at the Barcelona Zoo. Snowflake’s last grandchildren were born in August 2004. Two are twins, male and female. This is a remarkable event, since the birth of twins is quite unusual in gorillas. None of Snowflake’s offspring, however, is albino.

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