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Barcelona
Daily Sightseeing
Tours
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Departure:Daily
at 9am from Pl.
Catalunya opposite
Tourist Office, in
front of Banco de
España
Duration:
3 hours approx.
Guides:officially-licensed,
English-speaking
local experts who
love their job.
Language:
only in English
Transport:
Comfortable
air-conditioned bus
Itinerary:
Passeig de Gràcia >
Façades of Casa
Batlló and La
Pedrera > Gracia >
Pl Lesseps > Park
Güell > Sagrada
Família |
This tour will
take you to the best
of Gaudí, at
different points of
the city, in a
comfortable coach
and avoiding
entrance queues.
Antoni Gaudí,
visionary architect
during Barcelona's
modernista (art
nouveau) period
early last century,
graced Barcelona
with nearly all his
extraordinary and
beautiful buildings.
No less than 7 have
been listed as World
Heritage by UNESCO.
We will explain
what makes them
extraordinary: the
detail, the symbols,
the structural
secrets, the
technical
innovation, and give
you a guided tour of
Park Güell and the
Sagrada Família.
Gaudí's master
work, the
Sagrada
Família, is the last
on the tour so you
can stay and explore
it as long as you
like, return in the
coach to the city
centre, or continue
on the "Montjuic
Hill and Waterfront
Tour".
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Montjuïc Hill
& Waterfront Tour |
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Departure:Daily
at 12 am from Pl.
Catalunya opposite
Tourist Office, in
front of Banco de
España
Duration:3 hours
approx. Guides: officially-licensed, English-speaking
local experts who love their job. Language:only in
English Transport: Comfortable
air-conditioned
bus Itinerary:Arc de Triomf > Olympic Village & Port > beaches >
Old Port > Columbus Monument > Gothic Drassanes (shipyards) > World
Trade Centre > Mirador de l'Alcalde (Look-out) > Joan Miró Foundation >
Olympic Ring stadiums > and visit to the Spanish Village including free time
for lunch |
This tour combines
two areas of natural
beauty used by
Barcelona for
culture and
recreation:
The Waterfront
which is a living
example of how the
very old can be
successfully
combined with the
very new: the Old
Port with its Dock
warehouses and the
Gothic Drassanes or
shipyards have been
preserved and
incorporated into a
remodelled
recreational area,
with the Aquarium,
the World Trade
Centre, restaurants
and cinemas. Just
north of the Old
Port, the Olympic
Village and
Olympic Port
were built for the
'92 Games,
transforming an
industrial part of
the city into
apartments facing
the sea, beaches,
marina, and parks,
criss-crossed with
bicycle paths;
Montjuïch Hill
with its parks, art
galleries, museums
and the 1992 Olympic
Ring of sports
stadiums also
provides spectacular
views over the city.
We will visit the
charming
Spanish Village
and have free time
for lunch there; we
will give you a
voucher valid for a
10% discount in any
restaurant.
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All
Barcelona Highlights
Tour
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Departure: Daily
at 9am from Pl.
Catalunya opposite
Tourist Office, in
front of Banco de
España Duration:6
hours approx Guides: officially-licensed, English-speaking
local experts who love their job. Language:only in
English Transport: Comfortable
air-conditioned
bus Itinerary:Passeig de Gràcia > Façades of Casa Batlló and La Pedrera
> Gracia > Pl Lesseps > Park Güell > Sagrada Família > Arc de
Triomf > Olympic Village & Port > beaches > Old Port > Columbus
> Monument > Gothic Drassanes (shipyards) > World Trade Centre >
Mirador Alcalde (Look-out) > Joan Miró Foundation > Olympic Ring stadiums
> and visit to the Spanish Village including free time for lunch |
The ideal tour for
people on a short
visit: the only way
to see everything,
covering the
distances and
avoiding the queues.
Visit all the best
sites in Barcelona
by combining the
Gaudi Tour and
Montjuïc Hill &
Waterfront Tour
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Departure: Daily except Sundays, at 3 pm from Pl.
Catalunya opposite Tourist Office, in front of Banco de España. Duration: 4 hours approx. Guides: officially-licensed, English-speaking
local experts who love their job. Language:only in
English Transport: Comfortable
air-conditioned
bus Itinerary: Barcelona > Parc Natural de Montserrat > Sanctuary
(Monastery, Basilica, Chapel of Our Lady) > Free time > return to
Barcelona |
Montserrat
is a mountain, a
unique Natural Park,
and a massive rock
over 4000 feet high,
visible for miles,
with weird shapes
and rounded peaks
that jut into the
sky; there are
paths, stairs,
caves, chapels and
hermitages scattered
over the mountain,
extraordinary
landscapes and
wonderful views.
Montserrat
is a Benedictine
monastery nearly
1000 years old,
perched half way up
the mountain and
sheltered by its
peaks. There is a
basilica with the
Chapel of Our Lady
of Montserrat known
as La Moreneta, the
patron saint of
Catalonia, and a
presence strongly
felt and revered.
The community of
monks also runs a
boys' school devoted
to the study of
music.
Montserrat
is culture: a
library of nearly
300,000 volumes; the
oldest boys' choir
in Europe; a
basilica full of
paintings, gold
lamps and decorated
chapels, a museum
with paintings by El
Greco, Picasso and
Dalí among many
others and treasures
from ancient Egypt.
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