Barcelona is a welcoming, funny, and multicultural city with two thousands years of history. A place to live, enjoy and share.

Throughout years, Barcelona has become one of the most important cultural, financial, and cosmopolitan capitals in Europe.

Its streets as well as its inhabitants have enjoyed, and still enjoy day by day, feeling part of a city opened to the sea that has hosted important events such as the 92’Olympics or the Forum of the Cultures, held the last year 2004.
Culturally, Barcelona is well-known, not only for its monuments, squares, parks, and museums that build the city outline; but it is also well-known for being one of the chosen destinations for artists and designers during the last years, who have turned Barcelona into the most In-fashion cultural centre (Gaudí Catwalk, design year, Sonar Electronic Music Festival, among others).

History and Present time are combined in this Catalan capital giving to its visitors a large variety of financial, cultural or commercial activities.

GETTING ORIENTED IN BARCELONA

Getting oriented in Barcelona is not difficult, however, some reference points must be taken into account: the city centre par excellence is set by Catalunya Square, below it there is the Old Quarter where the major part of the museums and other places of historic interest.

The well-known Rambla winds down until the Columbus Statue, next to the Port. From the Columbus Statue to the East, Maritime Avenue crosses the Wood wharf (Moll de la Fusta), the Old Port and the picturesque Barceloneta Quarter which leads to the Olympic Port.

To the west, The Paralel Avenue leads us to the Espanya Square, where we find the Montjuïc Mountain, one of the most representative mountains of Barcelona, which together with the Tibidabo Mountain, northern limit of the city, set the outline of this Mediterranean city between mountains.

Another point of reference is the popular Diagonal Avenue; since it crosses diagonally all the city from North-East to South-East, ending in the new leisure and financial centre ‘Diagonal Mar’, inaugurated last 2004 on the occasion of the Forum of the Cultures.

Between Catalunya Square and Diagonal Avenue, we find almost all the Barcelona’s ‘Eixample’. The Eixample emerged from the Cerdà’s Plan and whose objective was the unification of Barcelona’s city centre with the nearby towns, which are part of the city in our days.

Those quarters have known to keep their historic and cultural identity. This whole squared block has a main artery the Gràcia Avenue where the famous Pedrera, Batlló House or the Punxes House can be found.