Showing posts with label Barcelona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barcelona. Show all posts

Monday, April 9, 2012

Barcelona Facts - 10 thoughprovoking Facts About Barcelona, Spain

You assuredly are a tourer of wonderful tastes, if you're visiting the city of Barcelona in Spain. Definitely, Barcelona is the city having fullness of excellence, elegance, and exquisiteness. It's the city known for its telling history, impressive culture, aesthetic opulence, wonderful monuments, wonderful modernist architectural works, noteworthy museums & art galleries, and above all, tantalizing people. Surely, you can assuredly find loads of tantalizing things, but here are the 10 most tantalizing fact about Barcelona for you.

There are two Spanish legends on the founding of Barcelona. One legend says that it was founded by Hercules 400 years before the construction of Rome, but according to the other legend, the city was founded by the Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, in the 3rd century Bc, and it has got its name from the great Barca family of Carthage.

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Barcelona is the capital of Spain's autonomous region, Catalonia. Located in the comarca of Barcelonès, the city has always been the focus of Catalan separatism and striving for its independence. Today's Barcelona is one of the most cosmopolitan and economically most active cities of the world.

Barcelona Facts - 10 thoughprovoking Facts About Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona is the center of Modernist architecture. It is particularly known for Antoní Gaudí's architectural masterpieces. Some of the major works of Gaudí consist of Casa Vicens, Palau Güell, College of the Teresianas, Church of Colònia Güell, Casa Calvet, Casa Batlló, Casa Milà (La Pedrera), Park Güell, and Sagrada Família.

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La Sagrada Família, one of the major works of Antoní Gaudí, is still under construction in Barcelona. The construction of the monumental Roman Catholic basilica began in 1882, and Gaudí worked on the architectural gem for over 40 years and devoted the last 15 years of his life solely to the this project.

St. George's Day is the National Feast in Catalonia. It is known as "Diada de Sant Jordi" in Catalan. In Barcelona, St. George's Day, 23 April, is traditionally illustrious by gifting roses and books to loved ones. Inspired from the custom, Unesco declared the day as the International Day of Books.

La Rambla is the major center of activities in Barcelona. It is an iconic & busy street in central Barcelona. It is the place where you can enjoy delicious Spanish foods at many restaurants, and find the finest places for shopping. It's an extremely popular place, with an median of about 150,000 people walk along it every day. Interesting!



Barna Centre - Barri Gòtic is the center of the old city of Barcelona. It has many structure dating from medieval times, and some even from as far back as the Roman hamlet of Barcelona. It's a popular traveler attraction that attracts over one million visitors every week.

Portal de l'Àngel is one of the most popular pedestrian streets in Spain. It is Located in the Ciutat Vella district by Plaça Catalunya. The thoroughfare is so popular that around 3,500 people walk straight through it every hour. It's assuredly amazing!

Fc Barcelona is a illustrious sports club based in Barcelona. The club is best known for its football team. With the seating capacity for 100,000 people, Fc is the biggest conspiratorially owned stadium in the world. It is one of the most visited traveler attractions of Barcelona.

Barcelona Wax Museum, officially known as Museu de Cera, is the Spain's reply to the Madame Tussaud's in London. Located at the port end of the Ramblas in a rather old-fashioned 19th century building, the museum features world's most illustrious sports personalities, musicians and statesmen.




Barcelona Facts - 10 thoughprovoking Facts About Barcelona, Spain

Friday, October 14, 2011

Winter Sports in Barcelona - Ice Skating

Barcelona is more than just a summer-time city. There is much that is fun, educational or cultural (or all 3!) open and accessible throughout the winter months. Definitely falling into the fun category is the Barça Ice Rink de Barcelona. This most seasonable of attractions has seen a presence in the city for over 30 years, and is host to several competitive ice sporting clubs, as well as being open to the general public. The Barça Ice Rink is next to the Camp Nou Stadium.

In Barcelona, you will find also the Skating Club de Barcelona tucked away on the Calle Roger de Flor, in the wide avenues of Eixample. This is only a mile or so from the Old City, and the Plaça de Catalunya. Monday and Tuesdays are half-days, but the ice rink is open for general sessions for the rest of the week, as late as 9pm (excepting the daily siesta closing from 1.30pm until 5pm).

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The general sessions are the most popular with families and the ice rink quickly becomes a bobbing, slipping and sliding arena for Barcelonans of all ages. Music, lights and snazzy screens enliven the experience - as if that were really needed! But as well as general skating fun, the ice rink is also host to some serious sporting activity. The local Curling Team practices, and competes here and they have the distinction of being Spanish Group B Champions. It is well worth checking out the competition schedules to see when the next Curling Event is; the ice rink is sure to be packed and the atmosphere electric.

Winter Sports in Barcelona - Ice Skating

There is also a Hockey School for children, which involves tuition and trial games. For this class, all of the equipment is supplied. The ice rink also puts on some excellent Ice Skating tuition, that would be ideal for the budding Torvill and Deans. And if you do enrol one of your kids into these sessions, you get free skate hire, and free entry to the General Sessions, thrown in as well.

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On a more practical note, it's worth pointing out that the Skating Club de Barcelona doesn't allow those under 3 to skate. And you must bring gloves, and, for the youngsters under 12, some form of helmet; health and safety is alive and well even in Catalonia!

So if your stay in relative warmth of the Catalan winter has you nostalgic for some wintry wonder, a trip down to a Skating Club in Barcelona may be in order, for you and your kids.

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Winter Sports in Barcelona - Ice Skating