Barcelona in July
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The big church, familia thingy.
Ramblas plus side streets / big food market
Port area / cable car
F1 track... ahem.
The beach
Shopping in the mall to get out of the heat (grand villa or something I forget the name, villa 2)
Look round the fancy architecture in the north of the city.
Visit the old fort (free on the first sunday of the month)
Various art museums
Another big church (you will need car to get there) on the hill overlooking the entire city.
Ramblas plus side streets / big food market
Port area / cable car
F1 track... ahem.
The beach
Shopping in the mall to get out of the heat (grand villa or something I forget the name, villa 2)
Look round the fancy architecture in the north of the city.
Visit the old fort (free on the first sunday of the month)
Various art museums
Another big church (you will need car to get there) on the hill overlooking the entire city.
Restaurant - Els 4Gats
Els Quatre Gats (Catalan for 'The Four Cats') is a café in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain that famously became a popular meeting place for famous artists throughout the modernist period in Catalonia, known as Modernisme. The café opened on 12 June 1897 in the famous Casa Martí, and served as a hostel, bar and cabaret until it eventually became a central meeting point for Barcelona’s most prominent modernist figures, such as Antoni Gaudi, Pablo Picasso and Ramon Casas i Carbó. The bar closed due to financial difficulties in June 1903, but was reopened and eventually restored to its original condition in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_Quatre_Gats
Really loved this place. Great food, great history, amazing ambience.
Els Quatre Gats (Catalan for 'The Four Cats') is a café in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain that famously became a popular meeting place for famous artists throughout the modernist period in Catalonia, known as Modernisme. The café opened on 12 June 1897 in the famous Casa Martí, and served as a hostel, bar and cabaret until it eventually became a central meeting point for Barcelona’s most prominent modernist figures, such as Antoni Gaudi, Pablo Picasso and Ramon Casas i Carbó. The bar closed due to financial difficulties in June 1903, but was reopened and eventually restored to its original condition in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_Quatre_Gats
Really loved this place. Great food, great history, amazing ambience.
Deep Thought said:
Restaurant - Els 4Gats
Els Quatre Gats (Catalan for 'The Four Cats') is a café in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain that famously became a popular meeting place for famous artists throughout the modernist period in Catalonia, known as Modernisme. The café opened on 12 June 1897 in the famous Casa Martí, and served as a hostel, bar and cabaret until it eventually became a central meeting point for Barcelona’s most prominent modernist figures, such as Antoni Gaudi, Pablo Picasso and Ramon Casas i Carbó. The bar closed due to financial difficulties in June 1903, but was reopened and eventually restored to its original condition in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_Quatre_Gats
Really loved this place. Great food, great history, amazing ambience.
My Spanish is non-existent, so the website isn’t that helpful, but the pictures look great. I can’t book for July, yet but will keep an eye out in a few months.Els Quatre Gats (Catalan for 'The Four Cats') is a café in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain that famously became a popular meeting place for famous artists throughout the modernist period in Catalonia, known as Modernisme. The café opened on 12 June 1897 in the famous Casa Martí, and served as a hostel, bar and cabaret until it eventually became a central meeting point for Barcelona’s most prominent modernist figures, such as Antoni Gaudi, Pablo Picasso and Ramon Casas i Carbó. The bar closed due to financial difficulties in June 1903, but was reopened and eventually restored to its original condition in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Els_Quatre_Gats
Really loved this place. Great food, great history, amazing ambience.
Sport_Turismo_GTS said:
My Spanish is non-existent, so the website isn’t that helpful, but the pictures look great. I can’t book for July, yet but will keep an eye out in a few months.
I honestly thought when we looked and booked there was an "English" button option, sorry.Lovely food and there is english menus in the restaurant and the staff do speak english.
Sport_Turismo_GTS said:
Deep Thought said:
I honestly thought when we looked and booked there was an "English" button option, sorry.
Lovely food and there is english menus in the restaurant and the staff do speak english.
ThanksLovely food and there is english menus in the restaurant and the staff do speak english.
If you like the architecture then the park Gaudi designed (Park Guelle (?)) is worth a visit and has good views over the city. Book in advance.
The houses he designed are interesting too, and many are open to the public if you google it.
For the slightly less high brow customer, there is a sex museum down Las Ramblas, I suggest having a couple of drinks before going in to add to the amusement.
The houses he designed are interesting too, and many are open to the public if you google it.
For the slightly less high brow customer, there is a sex museum down Las Ramblas, I suggest having a couple of drinks before going in to add to the amusement.
gotoPzero said:
Another big church (you will need car to get there) on the hill overlooking the entire city.
We walked it 
Utterly bonkers place, a steady hours walk and you’ll see lots of random stuff on the way.
The last half mile, the steep bit is on a funicular railway, and the views are well worth it.
Another one worth doing is going up the Columbus monument, it’s not obvious from the outside but there’s a lift to the top, and you can feel it sway
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