barcelona spain beaches Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/barcelona-spain-beaches Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:46:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Barcelona Spain Travel Guide http://toursmaps.com/barcelona-spain-travel-guide.html http://toursmaps.com/barcelona-spain-travel-guide.html#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:46:34 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=237622 MONTSERRAT Make your way to the Catalonian countryside with Lifestyle Barcelona. At the top of the multipeaked Monserrat Mountain (above, top left), the site of a Benedictine monastery, your guide will pep talk you into stepping over the edge the rugged 4,055- foot cliff . Once you’ve conquered that, scramble up a sheer rock face (above, bottom left). EIXAMPLE ESQUERRA For immediate Instagram hearts, snap shots of the spellbinding surrealist exterior of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia (above, bottom right), under construction for 130 years. Spy stained glass, stonework and epic arches. EIXAMPLE ESQUERRA Don your dancing shoes and head to Mojito

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/barcelona-spain-travel-guide.html/feed 0 Travel to Barcelona http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-barcelona.html http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-barcelona.html#respond Sun, 15 Jan 2017 12:33:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=227910 Travel to Barcelona ACCOMMODATIONS While accommodations in Barcelona are easy to spot, finding a room can be more difficult. During the busier travel months (June-September or December), just wandering up and down Las Ramblas looking for a place to stay can quickly turn into a frustrating experience. If you want to stay in the touristy areas Barri Gotic or Las Ramblas make reservations weeks, or even months, in advance. Consider staying outside the tourist hub of the Ciutat Vella; there are plenty of great hostels in I’Eixample and Gracia that will have more vacancies. Hostels in Spain are generally not

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-barcelona.html/feed 0 Traveling in Barcelona http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-barcelona.html http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-barcelona.html#respond Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:31:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=227965 Traveling in Barcelona WATERFRONT MUSEU MARITIM. The Drassanes Reiales de Barcelona (Royal Shipyards of Barcelona) are considered the world’s greatest standing example of Civil (i.e. non-religious) Gothic architecture and are currently awaiting nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The complex consists of a series of huge indoor bays with slender pillars, in which entire ships could be constructed and stored over the winter. Since 1941, the building has housed the Maritime Museum, which traces the evolution of shipbuilding and life on the high seas. (Av. Drassanes, off the rotary around the Monument a Colom. M: Drassanes, L3. s933 42

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