Barcelona is appropriate for about 120 km south the Pyrenees and the border to France. Barcelona is capital of the autonomous community Catalonia in Spain. It is to Madrid the second largest city of Spain with approximately 1.6 million inhabitants. It is of Spain most important industrie and commercial town with one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean area.

In the Middle Ages Barcelona was capital of the Kingdom of Aragonien and important sea and trading nation in the western Mediterranean. Barcelona was removed from the Romans to a fortress, whose remnants of the Roman Stadtmauern represent a first highlight.

Numerous objects of interest attract year by year many visitors, particularly those
medieval city, those
Roman ruinsand the modern
Plan city Eixample. The latter is well-known for their square house block with the tapered corners. Apart from the pleasant climatic conditions is the large selection of hotels and restaurants with Catalan kitchen is a further plus of Barcelona.

Objects of interest Barcelona
The alive a chewing mile La Rambla is admits for its many restaurants, cafes and multicolored lives with road Musi edges.

In direct proximity lie the Picasso museum, the Miro museum, the Fundacion Antoni Tapies, the museum for Catalan art, the navigation museum and the zoo-logical museum.

The old cathedral from the years 1298-1448, the bishop palace, the Palacio de la Generalidad and the Plaza del Rey.

Magnificent baroque and art nouveau buildings of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, like the Sagrada Familia (church of the holy family) and some beautiful residential buildings, like the Casa Battlound and the Casa Mila.

Parque Güell, a Buslinie drives to the park lain in the north of the city.
From the mountain Montjuic one enjoys a wonderful view over the city.

Sagrada Familia in Barcelona - delighted of the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí is the usually-visited building in Barcelona and is considered as symbol of the city.

The old person port of the city, at whose end the landing places for the cruise ships are.
Shopping Barcelona

In Barcelona are to you over 35.000 business to the Shopping at the disposal. The city is admits for its five kilometers long Shopping mile. The famous Flaniermeile
La Ramblaextends from the port to the Placa de Catalunya. The world-famous purchase mile La Rambla lies outside of the actual old part of town. It forms the tourist center of the city, here runs for each tourist at least once long. Of Barcelona splendour roads like the Rambla, which Gran via, which are Passeig de Gracia or the Rambla de Catalunya permanently by traffic and surround noise.

Those
Old part of town Barcelonais it shown however as large, completely auto-free Einkaufsparadies. One does not find large shops in the Barri Gotic (old town quarter), but there are numerous small shops, mode fashion shops and arts and crafts enterprises.

The largest shopping centre in the heart from Barcelona is
El trifishes, directly at the Plaza Catalunya. L’Illa diagonal lies on the Avenida diagonal, a Shopping center with the large chains of stores and international business.

Restaurant Barcelona
Barcelona is one of the innovativsten cities of Spain and offers beside the traditional Spanish kitchen also Chinese, Indian one or Bengali. But usually one remains for the local culture, i.e. the Catalan faithful.
One eats fresh fish best in Barceloneta, the old Fischer area near the urban beach. In the Barrí Gotic (old part of town) one meets a multicolored mixture of international restaurants of all kinds, which all desires and tastes serve. The spicy Indian kitchen one meets in the multicultural quarter of Raval. One enjoys the Spanish kitchen best in Eixample, apart from mass tourism of the old part of town of Barcelona.
At noon the prices are particularly favorable, a midday menu with salad, main food, refeed and for a beverage are appropriate with 8-15€. In the evening one must count on somewhat higher prices.

The Barcelona Card with pertinent travel guide, city plan, Metro plan and description of the mechanisms gives it also in German language. She is available with the addresses the tourist information at the Placa de Catalunya, at the Placa de Sant Jaume/Ciutat, and at the airport Barcelona.