Barcelona City Guide

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You have an extraordinary taste if you choose to spend a week in Barcelona. Definitely, this Catalan language speaking city has plenty of elegance, exquisiteness, and excellence. Barcelona is well known for its rich history, aesthetic lavishness, impressive culture, wonderful Barcelona museums and art galleries, magnificent monuments, incredible modernist Barcelona architectures, and interesting people of Barcelona above all. Here are some interesting facts about Barcelona.

• How was Barcelona founded? Legend has it that Hercules founded the city 400 years before Rome. Another legend tells it was founded in 300 BC by the Carthaginian father of Hannibal, Hamilcar Barca, hence the name Barcelona.

• Barcelona is Catalonia’s capital. It has been the center of Catalan separatism, striving for its independence. Today, Barcelona is one of the most cosmopolitan cities around the world.

• Spanish and Catalan are the two major languages spoken in the city. Many Barcelona people speak English, so it will not be a big problem.

• The city has a Mediterranean climate. Since Barcelona lies on Iberian Peninsula’s eastern coast, the Atlantic west winds usually arrive in the region with very low humidity, producing little or no rain.

• The city is the Mecca of Modernist architecture, well known for Antoní Gaudí’s architectural spectacles. Major works of Gaudí include the Sagrada Família, Palau Güell, Casa Vicens, Casa Calvet, Casa Milà (La Pedrera), and Casa Batlló.

• The construction of t the architectural gem, the Sagrada Família, started in 1882 and remains unfinished up to this date. Gaudí worked on it for more than 40 years and spent the last 15 years of his life exclusively to this project.

• The National Feast in Catalonia is the St. George’s Day. Catalans Celebrated every 23rd of April, Catalans observe this feast by giving books and roses to loved ones. UNESCO declared the St. George’s Day as International Day of Books.

• The busy and iconic La Rambla is no doubt the most popular street in Barcelona. It boasts of many restaurants that serve heavenly Catalan foods and a haven for shopping. La Rambla attracts around 150,000 walkers every day.

• Barri Gòtic is the heart of the old Barcelona. It houses numerous buildings and structures that date from the Medieval Period. Some even date from the Roman settlement of the city. It attracts more than a million visitors weekly.

• FC Barcelona is a renowned sports club in Barcelona famous for its football team. FC has a seating capacity for around 100,000 people, the largest private stadium in the whole world.