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The most important things to do, starting from the most:
Ramblas...a long boulevard with a wide walking mall in the center. Lots of shops and restaurants along the sides, performance artists and artists selling their work, small markets along the center, and on the left, about halfway up, the largest food market in the city, one of the best in the world.
Sagrada Familia, the still under construction church designed by Gaudà is the one thing you must see, if you don't have time for anything else.
The Cathedral (which Sagrada Familia is NOT) and then a stroll through the Barrà Gotic (old quarter) is next.
Start at the Plaza de Catalunya for the bus tours already mentioned. I don't generally take such things, but even for an individualist as myself, the Eixample, especially, is so vast that the bus tour is worthwhile. The Eixample is the neighborhood of Modernista architecture, including Gaudà masterpieces, as well as several by other masters of the style. Get off to tour one of the most famous of his houses...we did La Pedrera (Casa Milá) and Casa Batlló is also open for tours. The bus passes by Camp Nou, and not far from Parc Güell, a large park which was also designed by GaudÃ.
If you have done all of that and still have some time, there are a lot of art museums worth visiting...Picasso lived in Barcelona during his youth, and there's an excellent collection of his works there. Miró, also has a large museum in the Montjuic area, which is where the olympics were staged in '92. There are a lot of things to do and see in Montjuic, including a large castle with a military museum.
Also interesting: Poble Espanyol, a collection of models or architecture from all over Spain. It houses a craft sales sort of mall, where many young artists sell and work their crafts. (it's sort of like a glorified art show as you see set up on the weekends in the US, I was expecting traditional regional crafts)
The Palau Musica is worth visiting, if only to see the massive art nouveau skylight, but you need to check on their schedule early, to make sure you can get in.
We enjoyed the Chocolate Museum. A little bit of the history of chocolate, and then sculptures made of chocolate. Interesting, followed by the requisite gift shop where you can buy, of all things, chocolate!
Yeah, and get chocolate, ice cream, and seafood at any of the myriad restaurants that sell such things...excellent everywhere.
There are music clubs all over the place.
there are a bunch of side trips you could take.
It all depends on the amount of time you have, and your own interests. |
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