Built Attractions
Barcelona is mainly made up of built attractions through out the city. The city has a lot of built historic attractions and modern built attractions. Starting with La Rambla a street containing five promenade sections. It is the most famous street in Barcelona. Leading to the La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona’s most famous cathedral. Nearby is the Museu de la Historia de la Ciutat (City History Museum). Then to the Barri Gotic, which also holds several other treasures, so you may want to plan more than one day in the area. Though just to wonder through the streets has been said to be enjoyable enough with its fun streets, especially at night when you can sample the district's many restaurants and bars. You have also got the Olympic stadium and Pavello Barcelona. Just strolling around Sagrada Familia
this green area is pleasant, with some nice
views over the city. As well as all the other
attractions in the city you can travel to the summit of one the biggest hills in the city by using the Tramvia Blau, a tram system.
Food + Drink
Barcelona has a very wide range of food and drink in the city catering for all tastes. With Indian cuisine, Pakistani cuisine, French cuisine, Italian cuisine, Seafood, Vegetarian, and the Local and Regional specialities. It also has quite a lot Internet cafes, showing that the city caters for all tastes.
Entertainment
Barcelona offers a hugely wide selection for entertainment. It has a very wide selection of shops in the city from, clothes; you should look for Catalan designers such as Toni Miro and Adolfo Dominguez. Also leather shoes, bags, wallets and belts can be stunning and a good value. To jewellery, law and music to gardening, automotive and arts and craft. Barcelona also has the very famous Nou Camp with a 125,000 all seated capacity, which is home to the football club Barcelona F.C. Barcelona is not the only famous club in Catalonia as there is also Deportivo la courna which are rivals to Barcelona F.C. If Barcelona wins then you can expect there to be parties of a mass scale carrying on until early hours of the morning. The city also has a wide selection of other entertainment facilities in the city catering for all ages such as the amusement park, which caters for the young families visiting the city. The amusement park and its fair ground attractions are at the top of Tibidabo hill as you can see below it dominates the skyline. The city also has a wide selection of other entertainment facilities in the city catering for all ages such as the amusement park, which caters for the young families visiting the city.
Types of Accommodation
Barcelona offers more than one different type of accommodation with Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Guest Houses and Reservation Services. The city offers a choice of your top class hotels and your ill expensive, travel inn hotels. For example here is a list of some of the hotels in Barcelona
LE MERIDIEN BARCELONA
avg. rate 75 EUR, 5-stars hotel
The hotel is 5 minutes drive from the Montjuic hill, the Olympic Stadium, the Greek theatre and the Miro Museum....
ROYAL HOTEL
4-stars rate from 110EUR
Set on Ramblas Boulevard, the best entertainment, business, shopping and tourist area
CAN FISA
rate from 55EUR
Comfortable and family Hotel at incomparable environment.
Type Of Transport
Barcelona has the normal selection of transportation in and around the city, but it also has Barcelona International airport, which is one of Spain’s main airports. One of the best ways to get around the city is on foot and by public transport, especially the efficient subway system, Metro. There are a number of multi-ride tickets and travel passes available for use on the five Metro lines, the city railway network and a huge fleet of buses. Also the hugely popular Bus Turistic is a great way to visit the main sights around the city of Barcelona.
Visitor Types
Barcelona brings in a lot of tourists to the city, down to the fact that it is a very historical city, what would be classed as a holiday city for historians. It also has a very good nightlife, which also attracts young people for nightlife. With bars, nightclubs and discotheques Barcelona has the nightlife to attract the young people as well as any other tourist.
Barcelona has one of the widest visitor types that a city can attract with young people coming into the city for nightlife, middle-aged people who visit the city for the sights and atmosphere and to for a relaxing holiday. The city will also attract historians for its historic backgrounds and
Barcelona brings in other visitor types tough, with maybe businessmen and woman visiting the city on business trips. What tends to happen a lot is that businessmen like to bring their wives along with them so they can go shopping in and around the city. This is also bringing another visitor type to the city of Barcelona.
Also another visitor type coming to the city may be people coming just to visit their friends or family or even both, in the city of Barcelona.
Bibliography
Books
I did not use many books in my research of Barcelona but I did use an ‘Insight City Guides of Barcelona’. Which gave me information on the history of Barcelona.
Internet
With the Internet research I used more than one web site to help me research on Barcelona. The first site I used was for the climate graph and and research Barcelona through the website. I also used the web site to help my background research on Barcelona. I also used to help historical research on Barcelona.