Find the best sneaker shops in Barcelona Barcelona is an extremely multicultural and cosmopolitan city. You can tell this without even taking your eyes away from the floor, and just looking at the shoes people are wearing, from British tourists wearing their quintessential white trainers, to local kids wearing all sorts of flamboyant sneakers, as [...]

Discover the original Cathedral of the Sea Ildefonso Falcones’ book Cathedral of the Sea (orig.: La Catedral del Mar) is based upon the construction of a church in Barcelona. Inspired by Santa Maria del Mar located in the district La Ribera next to the Ramblas del Born, Falcones’ intricately plotted novel which was published in [...]

Barcelona Forum 2004 Building / Edifici Fòrum One of Barcelona’s most impressive buildings when it comes to modern architecture is the forum building in Barcelona . This “floating blue cheesecake” represents one of the most recent architectural creations in the city. It is officially recognised as Edifici Fòrum and was designed by the Swiss architects [...]

Solar power and Photovoltaic power plant in Barcelona Barcelona is the city with the highest density of solar panels in Europe. In 2006, solar panels covered 40.095 square meters of the roofs on buildings. Catalonia’s local government highly supports sustainability and the usage of renewable energies, especially solar power. One of the biggest solar power [...]

Take a dip at Aquarium Barcelona One of the city’s latest attractions is the Barcelona Aquarium. Located right next to the IMAX cinema in the Port Vell area, Barcelonas’ own Seaworld attracts hundreds of tourists every week. In 35 aquariums which do features on all of the oceans on earth, the visitors are presented 450 [...]