Shopping in Barcelona City On Sales

Shopping in Barcelona is an unforgettable experience. If you are addict to shopping then you are at the right place as so many shops are open till 10.00 pm. In order to feel the atmosphere of the shopping in Barcelona city here is a video. You can find many shops selling goods from traditional to trendy things. So when you decide a Barcelona city travel we suggest you to be prepared to spend money on shopping during your trip in Barcelona city but don't forget that there are huge sales twice in a year which we mentioned in earlier post about shooping in Barcelona city. So don't hesitate to shop as there are lots of options for everyone's budget. Have a nice shooping in Barcelona city. We will keep on posting updated subjects about Barcelona city in order to be your Barcelona city travel guide. Thanks for following us. 

Camp Nou Stadium

Football is one of the biggest issue of a country on which it gives importance. Around the world, there are many big football clubs and they do really have great impact on the countries. So in Barcelona city there is a huge football stadium you should tour and we think anyone has an idea about this football stadium. Camp Nou is the biggest stadium in Europe and FC Barcelona is, too. Nou Camp has been home for Football Club Barcelona since 1957.  The construction began on 28 March 1954. The Football Club Barcelona or Barça has been active since 18th November 1899. The stadium hosts many football clubs from all over the world, Catalan National Football Team and UEFA championship matches with approximately 98,000 seats and this capacity makes Camp Nou biggest in Europe and 11th largest stadium in the world. In Catalan world, Nou Camp is not only a stadium but also a symbol of Barcelona city. You can see a stand displaying a motto  which made Barça Més que un club,meaning "More than a club". 

Nou Camp has got a five star facilities and services. Some of the services it offers are a chapel to pray for players, a memorabilia shop, mini-pitches for training matches, stores and a museum which is second most visited in Barcelona city. The museum offers a selection from photos of FC Barcelona to  jersey that Messi wore. There is an art gallery in the museum displaying many great works by Dali, Miro and Tapies. Visiting the museum makes you understand the history of FC Barcelona deeper. Camp Nou has been used for other purposes beside football matches. Until now, many great concerts were held at the stadium such as Bruce Springsteen, Julio Iglesias, Pavarotti, Michael Jackson or Sting. 

If you like, there is an audio guided tour in Nou Camp Stadium. You will walk through the tunnel where players pass and arrive the pitch. You will sit on the team benches and feel the atmosphere. In this tour, you will be able to visit Press and TV room, Presidential Box and chapel. It's accessible to people who need assistance. You can attend the tour all year round but please note that it's not open on 1st January, 6th January, 24th September and on Christmas Day. Adult visitors should pay 25€ and children 17€ for the tour and visiting the museum. Children up to 5 are free to enter. Below there is link to buy the tickets online. 

It's a new design of Camp Nou  by British architect Norman Foster which will be completed by 2021

How to get to Nou Camp Stadium?

There is a tramway you can choose. 500 mt from the stadium there is Trambaix Avinguda de Xile Station. You can use Lines T1, T2 and T3.

Beside tramway, you can access Camp Nou by metro from Barcelona metro. There are a couple of stations near the stadium which changes according to which gate you exit but mostly 1000 mt is far from the stadium. You can use Palau Reial, Maria Cristina and Les Corts. On workdays and Sundays, metro runs till midnight. 

Here a video showing the development of the stadium till 2014. Enjoy watching.

You can buy the tickets online at www.sportsemotions.com . If you like discovering every part of a city then we highly recommend you visit Camp Nou soon. You may want to check the location on the map.

Everybody loves Barça! There is a video for you made by fans of FC Barcelona or in other way Barça. If you have any idea about Camp Nou, please share with us. Have a nice time with the video. I hope we are able to be your Barcelona city travel guide.

Transportation Ways to Barcelona

How can we go to Barcelona? We are very lucky tourist when we want to travel to Barcelona city. There are many transportation ways to the capital city of tourism. The most important thing is that you should decide how you'd like to travel.

Airways to Barcelona:

There is one airport in Barcelona. It has got three terminals. Especially due to Olympic Games in 1992, the second terminal was built and the third one was complished until 2009. So Barcelona airport has huge passengers capacity in one day. It's famous for airlines from Barcelona city within Spain cities, Europe and North Africa. There are many airlines you can choose. If you buy your plane tickets beforehand, then it's likely that you will get the lowest price to Barcelona airport. Since 2000, you can use airway from all over the world. As Barcelona is one of the touristic cities in the world, it's not so much difficult to arrive the city.

Cruise Travel Transportation:

You can select an option such as travelling on the sea visiting many fantastic countries at the same time. If you wish a cruise travel, you can have many options from different ports all over the world. For instance; you can board from Italy and continue travelling to Greece, Israel and Spain or if you board from France, you can keep on passing Italy, Tunisia and Spain at the end. These are just examples for you. If you decide to travel by cruise you can have a look at travel agencies.

The cheapest way Railway:

There is also another way to reach Barcelona city. Of course, it's the cheapest way we can say. There is Barcelona-Sants railway station in the city. If you would like to go to Barcelona by train then we can give some advice. This station has got both national and international destinations. You can also use bus destinations options if you can't find a direct train line from your country and then you can use the railway. There are railway and bus options from Turkey, Italy, France and also the other countries.

History of Barcelona

Barcelona, The Big and Historical City

In this article, we will try to give information about Barcelona History. Let's check how Barcelona became Barcelona city. I hope we can guide you about the history of Barcelona.


Barcelona was founded as Roman city. The city became the capital of County of Barcelona. When the Kingdom of Aragon merged with Barcelona city, it went on to be one of the most important city in the Crown of Aragon. The Aragon Kingdom was a state survived between 11th and 15th century in the northeast of Spain.

Barcelona is like a capital city of Catalonia and also the second biggest city in Spain. The name of Barcelona comes from Iberian Phonecian. In Latin Barcelona derived from Barcino, Barcilonum and Barcenona. According to some sources, the city was called Barcelona by general Hamilcar Barca who was believed the founder of the city in the 3rd century BC.

Barcelona name is sometimes abbreviated as Barna and by the outsiders it is called as Barça which is the reference of football club in Barcelona.

There are two legends about foundation of the city. The first one refers to mythological character Hercules and the second one refers to general Hamilcar Barça that we mentioned above.

The Counts of Barcelona widened its territory after merging of Ramon Berenguer IV and Petronilla of Aragon marriage. The city ruled western Mediterranean Sea including Sicily, Napal and some part of Athens in 13th century.

There are many historical places and buildings in Barcelona which dated 11th century. For example, The Bank of Barcelona is the oldest bank in Barcelona.

While Madrid was the central of politicial power, Barcelona became the capital of Catalonia people.Because of this separatism, today Barcelona is thought of the capital of Catalonia and for the Catalonia people this city is much more important than Madrid.

Barcelona city is an important element for Spain as it was conquered by different cultures. That's why it holds many kinds of culture visuals such as Barri Gotic.It reflects Roman grid plan. The city was conquered by Visigoths at the beginning of 5th century after that Arabs invaded the city in the early of 8th century than it was conquered by Charlemagne's son Louis.So it became a buffer zone at those times.

Spanish Civil War had affected Barcelona city much more. During this war, the city was definitely Republican.When the power of Republican and Generilitat was lowered then many anarchists occurred in the city.But they lost control of the cith after the street fight called Barcelona May Days. During the civil war years the Catalonia language was supressed and the self-governing institutions was shot down.The result of civil war was the fast immigration and this led to rapid urbanization. With the hosting of Olympic Games in 1992, the city renewed again.After this renewal, Barcelona travel has become the one of the most trend travelling options in the world.

Grease Show

There are plenty of fascinating and amazing events in Barcelona throughout a year.Barcelona events in 2014 are worth to see! 
In this article we will give info about dates and times of events in Barcelona in March, 2014. You will taste the dance and theatre show in Barcelona city. For your Barcelona city travel guide, please have a look at our web site detailed. For more events options you can check the upcoming events button in our site.



Benjamin Franklin International School Presents!

Grease Dance&Theatre Show on March 28, 2014 12.00 am to April 5, 2014 12.00 am

The show will be in English with Spanish subtitles. It's the most famous musical in the world and it's worth to see in the frame of Barcelona city.

Please note that the show will be performed at 7.00 pm on 28th and 29th March and 4th and 5th April.

The tickets fee:
Children €3, adults €5.

You can watch the show at Martorell i Pena 9, Barcelona.
Phone:93 434 2380

Is Barcelona Cheap or Expensive?

How is the life standard in Barcelona city? Are the living expenses too high? Is the Barcelona city itself too expensive or vice versa? Let's have a look at how the life is easy in Barcelona travel time :)))
First of all in Barcelona, the currency is Euro which we know already. So if you are European then everything is Ok for you. What is more it's cheaper than France, Italy and Germany if compared to European countries.
For instance, North European countries such as Iceland, Norway or Sweden are much more expensive than Barcelona city. If you are tourist from Turkey, even though for these days the currency of Barcelona is higher than Turkish liras, you can have still cheap travel in the city. 

Beside above information, I'd like to mention about the food, restaurant, the bazaar in Barcelona city. There is a big and open every day bazaar called Boqueria in Las Ramblas street. There are many kinds of food varying from fruit, meat especeially and the vegetable. You can find olives, different kinds of cheese and etc. The prices are reasonable. For instance, a kilo of apple is around 2 euros. Some olive kinds are little expensive even though Spain is an Mediterranean city. For instance, a kilo of green olive is around 50 euros! The vegetable and fruit kinds are cheap. You can find lots of meat kinds such as pork, rabbit, chicken. The prices are OK.

What about the restaurants? As in many metropolitian cities, of course, there are expensive and cheap resataurants in Barcelona, too. Las Ramblas city is the most touristic street in Barcelona. Even around this city there are fine and cheap restaurants. I'd like to advice you a restaurant for you that I had visited before. There is a restaurant called Attic and it's available for family, young groups and couple dates:)) The prices are acceptable and the food is fantastic. For instance, one portion of hake fish is 15€. If you'd like to have a glass of wine which is the winner of the best wine of 2010 ( I can't remember the exact year), you must pay extra 7€. Of course there are other chic restaurants whose prices are also accessible. Beside these restaurants, you can find many fast food restaurants on the both sides of Las Ramblas. 

Let's talk about souvenir options. In Barcelona city, if you want to travel everywhere and places, it's time to discover the city without worrying about the expenses. There are many souvenir shops which sell many kinds of souvenir in Barcelona streets. On Las Ramblas street, it may be a little more expensive to buy souvenir but if you don't hesisate to discover the side-streets, then you can find many things to buy for your friends at reasonable prices.

Shall we mention about the transportation options in Barcelona city? We suggest you not rent a car if you always want to spend your travel in Barcelona city. Why? Because the city was built in order and you can get the farthest place even in two hours by train! And also the parking prices are much more expensive than the cars:))) For instance, parking lot fee per hour is around 2.5€. It doesn't differ when you pay monthly or weekly. If you'd like to pay weekly, per week it changes around between 50 and 100€ according to your bargaining talent! So it's more useful to use public transport. There are many different options such as buses, trains, subways and the most enjoyable one public bikes. These are the cheapest and the fastest at the same time. For instance, a subway fee is 9.25€ for 10 ride. 

Finally, we should mention about the shopping centers around Las Ramblas street for women tourist especially! There are many expensive shops such as Ralph Lauren, Massimo Dutti,Prada etc. Beside these shops, there are H&M, Mango, Stradivarius and local vintage shops for cheaper shopping option. Prada is expensive all around the world:)  but local shops are available and you can find lots of things in good quality.

We will give detailed information about restaurants, souvenir shops, transportation and shopping seperately but in this article we have just wanted to inform you about the life expenses in Barcelona city. I guess, you will agree with us after you have have read this article. Barcelona city is cheaper than the other European cities. So don't hesitate to plan your trip for Barcelona city.

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