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Unique Sneaker Shops in Barcelona
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 [...]
Santa Maria del Mar – Cathedral of the sea
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 – city of solar power
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 [...]
Barcelona Aquarium – Explore the sea
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 [...]
Timeout at Jardins Walter Benjamin
Escape from busy city life at Walter Benjamin Gardens The connection between Walter Benjamin and Barcelona seems to be quite random. So do these small gardens located next to Placa de la Carbonera. However, the missing link here is Catalonia itself, where Walter Benjamin died in 1940. He committed suicide in the small Catalan port [...]
Find organic food in Barcelona
Looking for the best organic food in BCN? One of the best places for organic food in Barcelona is Marius’s fruits and vegetables shop. It’s called Santamaria Herrero and located in the cosy borough of Barceloneta. “El Mas del Ares” (the rural shop) is a slightly hidden place. When you enter this lovely shop you are [...]
Gaudi – Parc Guell
Parc Güell – Gaudi’s fairytale playground Parc Güell belongs to several works of Anotni Gaudi which were commissioned and sponsored by the wealthy Güell family (others include for instance Palau Güell). Barcelona’s most emblematic park is situated on the hill of el Carmel high above the district of Gràcia. Parc Güell represents an unique garden [...]
Barcelona’s Port Vell
Port Vell means Old Port in Catalan. The habour was one of the building projects for the Olympic Games in 1992. Since then it has changed the city’s face tremendously. As in many other cities (compare East London getting transformed to be ready for the Olympic Games 2012), an old industrial habour with its run-down [...]
World Trade Center Barcelona
The World Trade Center in Barcelona (WTC) is one of the most important business complexes for conferences in Barcelona, located in Port Vell. Beside the Eurostars Grandmarina Hotel it hosts mainly companies, bars and restaurants. It was designed by Pei, Cobb, Fred & Partners, the same architects who are responsible for the creation of the [...]
