Get Overview of Barcelona to Enjoy Your Holidays

Get Overview of Barcelona to Enjoy Your Holidays

Barcelona is a charming place to enjoy a holiday trip with the best tourist sites and many urban and rural attractions.

Prices in Barcelona

Prices in Barcelona are similar to those of other cities such as Madrid and slightly lower than those of most European cities, especially compared with some cities like Amsterdam, Venice or Vienna.

The public transport in the city has very affordable rates and booking for accommodation in advance is available and you can find good hotels downtown for a small fee being the best area to stay in Barcelona. Here I share a list with the prices of some products in Barcelona.

Food and Drink

  • A latte is for €1.25.
  • A glass of beer is for €1.50.
  • Daily menu in a restaurant is for €8.50.

Transportation

  • Single Subway ticket is for €2.
  • 10 bonus subway trips in zone 1 are for €9.45.
  • Taxi from the airport to the city center may cost between €25 and €30.

Accommodation

A double room in a hotel in the center may cost from €60.

Tourist Visits

  • Entrance to the Sagrada Familia is for €13.
  • Entrance to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona is for €11.

Holidays in Barcelona

In Barcelona holidays, you may be surprised to find some of the museums or tourist sites are closed. The holidays in Barcelona are as follows;

  • New Year is on January 1st which is very obvious.
  • Three Kings Day is on 6th January.
  • Good Friday and Easter occur on variable dates.
  • Commemoration of the death of St. George, patron of Catalonia in on April 23. On this day, it is very common to give away roses and books.
  • Labor Day is on May 1st.
  • San Juan is on 24 June.
  • National Day of Catalonia is on September 11. It is the day that the defeat was suffered by the Catalans in 1714 by prohibiting their language and culture.
  • The Merce is on September 24. It is a Barcelona festival in honor of the Virgen de la Merced. They take place cavalcades, parades of giants and castellers to form their towers.
  • All Saints Day is on November 1.
  • Constitution Day is on 6 December.
  • Day of the Immaculate Conception is 8 December.
  • Christmas is on 25 December.
  • San Esteban is December 26.

Your trip will be even more enjoyable when you get the best area to stay in Barcelona for the reason that a comfortable accommodation is needed after a busy day enjoying the tourist sites.

Firstly, I recommend you to go for two walks, the first through the old town, walking through Ciutadella and Barceloneta, and the second route through the Eixample, the district of Catalan modernism. Now you can take a map of the city to begin your third itinerary, through the streets of Gothic Quarter, the medieval quarter of Barcelona.

Begin the journey through the Plaça de la Seu in the heart of Gothic quarter. After climbing the stairs, you can find the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia of Barcelona, ​​a magnificent Gothic monument built between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
Although the fame of the Holy Family of Gaudí distracts attention to any other church in the city, it is worth visiting this cathedral for several reasons such as the imposing neo-Gothic facade of 40 meters (added in 1882), the interior columns that appear as gigantic palm trees, the altar and the details of the choir stalls.

One block from the cathedral, you can see Placa del Rei, which is of great historical importance, because it houses the Royal Palace, where was the Count of Barcelona, ​​Jaime I, before Catalonia was part of Spain.

In the Tinell Hall, the Catholic Monarchs received in 1493 the visit of a triumphant Christopher Columbus when he returned from America laden with gold statues and some Indians. It was in that room where he was given the honorary title of Admiral of the Ocean.

Now go down Via Laietana until you reach the Princess Street where, after walking a few blocks, you will go to the left down the street of Montcada where you will find the Picasso museum.

Two fifteenth century palaces house the collections donated by Malaga-born artist. The most important paintings of Cubist period of Picasso known as the Guernica can be found find in the Reina Sofia Museum where you will see the realistic pictures of his formative years, when he lived in Barcelona between 14 and 21 years.

When you go down the street of Montcada, you reach at the Passeig del Born, which is worth knowing for some bars and restaurants abound in the neighborhood of the same name being the best area to stay in Barcelona for some time.

At the end of Passeig del Born, you will find the famous church of Santa Maria del Mar, in honor of the patron saint of sailors, who built this Gothic church, the most perfect as the Catalans, in just 55 years.

During the sixteenth century, the sailors left at the foot of the altar, small models of their boats, in order that the Virgin Mary may protect them during their journeys. The church suffered serious damage during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) when, seeing that the pro-Franco forces took the church, Republicans burned all the wooden furniture.

Now you return to Laietana road, and when you get up to the street Jaume I, turn left to reach Placa Sant Jaume a cobbled square built in 1840, which include two buildings of the fifteenth century as the City Council by Josep Maria Sert and the Palace of the Generalitat, the Catalan autonomous government headquarters.

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