Barcelona - Touristic Guide

 Cathedral of Saint Eulàlia
 The Cathedral of Saint Eulàlia is the Ghotic catedral seat of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Barcelona, Catalionia, Spain. The cathedral constructed between the XIII and XV the century (except the facade: XIX century) is in gothic style and is dedicated to the Saint Creu and Saint Eulàlia, the female saint of Barcelona (12 February), which endured the martyrdom in Roman age, the legend says that she was exposed naked in the public square and a miraculous snow fall in mid spring covered her nudity. The enraged Romans put her into a barrel with knives stuck into it and rolled it down a street (according to tradition, the one now called 'Baixada de Santa Eulalia'). The body of Saint Eulalia is entombed in the cathedral's crypt.

Saint Maria of the Mar
 Saint Maria del Mar is one gothic church of Barcelona (quarter of the Ribera), constructed between 1329 and 1383. It seems that the jobs have been directed from Berenguer de Montagut. Is sure the more emblematic and pure example of the Catalan gothic.
 From the outside, the building is introduced with a massive and compact aspect, than it does not allow indovinare as it can be the inside. There is an absolute predomination of horizontal lines and you space without openings or decorations; the horizontal comes continues some to me emphasized, marked from moldings, frames, superficial flat, like avoiding of giving to a too much marked feeling of height (height that is however real, in the building).

Saint María of the Pí
 Saint María of the Pí (in italian Santa Maria del pino, name that comes to them from the presence of a copy of this tree in the public square) is a church from Spanish and Catalan city of Barcelona.
 According to a tradition not documented, recognized but from some historians, already from the 413 small paleocristiana church in the place existed one where today this cathedral rises. The main facade has a large one rosone in the center, with a diameter of approximately 10 m.
 The bell tower is one of the more characteristic elements of the building. Constructed to leave from 1379, on plan of architect Bartomeu Mas, it probably came finished around to 1461: of octagonal, high structure 54 m, its walls has to the base a thickness of beyond 3 m. Between the 6 bells that it accommodates, the greater one is nicknamed Antonia, has a diameter of approximately a meter and means and a weight of 1806 kg.

Las Ramblas
 Las Ramblas (in Catalan: Les Rambles) is an iconic and busy street in central Barcelona, popular with both tourists and locals alike. A 1.2 kilometer-long tree-lined pedestrian mall in the Barri Gòtic, it connects Plaça Catalunya in the center with the Christopher Columbus monument at Port Vell. Usually full of street theatre, cafés and market stalls, it serves as the emotional hub of Barcelona.
 Officially, La Rambla is a series of shorter streets, each differently named, hence the plural form Las Ramblas. From the Plaça de Catalunya toward the harbor, the street is successively the Rambla de Canaletes, the Rambla dels Estudis, the Rambla de Sant Josep, the Rambla dels Caputxins, and the Rambla de Santa Monica. Construction of the Maremàgnum in the early 1990s resulted in a continuation of La Rambla on a wooden walkway into the harbor, the Rambla de Mar.

 When walking down La Rambla one can visit its many small shops or enjoy watching the various performances (actors, mimes etc.). There are also several vendors trying to sell paper figures they claim are capable of dancing. Cafes and restaurants on La Rambla often charge steep prices.La Rambla can be crowded, especially during the "prime-time" tourist season. For this reason, it has become a prime target for pickpockets. Lots of unwary tourists have had their wallets stolen on this street. Most recently robbery has also become an issue, even during daylight hours. Spanish poet Federico García Lorca once said that La Rambla was "the only street in the world which I wish would never end". The name La Rambla means, in Spanish and Catalan, an intermittent water flow, and is derived from the Arabic 'Ramla' which means 'sandy riverbed'.

 Boqueria
 The Boqueria is considered one of the ancient markets of Europe, with documents that of it date the origins already to XIII the century.
 The market contains stalls of every kind, but mainly alimentary. It is situated in a secondary road that ends up on the Ramblas and constitutes also one tourist attraction with its 2,583 m² of surface.

The Batlló House
 The Batlló House was restructured between 1905 and the 1907 from Antoni Gaudí to Barcelona, in Spain.
 This building probably represents one of the succeeded works more of the extraordinary Catalan architect.
 In the 1904 Joseph Batlló it entrusts to Gaudí the assignment to replace to new Batlló House, a space much lengthened strait and and from the rectangular shape, that challenge for the Catalan architect represented one sure.

 The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, sekeletal, organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona. The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

 It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George(patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

Güell Park
 is a 17, 18 ha wide garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Gracia, Barcelona,Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi and built in the years 1900 to 1914. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Works of Antoni Gaudi”.
 Although it sounds unlikely, the place is skillfully designed and composed to bring the peace and calm that one would expect from a park. The buildings flanking the entrance, though very original and remarkable with fantastically shaped roofs with unusual pinnacles, fit in well with the use of the park as pleasure gardens and seem relatively inconspicuous in the landscape when one considers the flamboyance of other buildings designed by Gaudi.

Milà House
 was constructed between 1905 and the 1907 from Antoni Gaudí to Barcelona, in Spain, to number 92 of celebre the Passeig de Gràcia, in the Barcelonian zone of the Ensanche (in Eixample Catalan), on assignment of Roser Segimon y Milà Pears for its imminent wedding. Most people consider it magnificent and overwhelming; some say it is like waves of lava or a sand-dune, but today it is a landmark of Barcelona. It could be compared with the steep cliff walls in which African tribes build their cave-like dwellings. The wavy facade, with its large pores, reminds one also of an undulating beach of fine sand, formed, for example, by a receding dune. The honeycombs made by industrious bees might also spring to the mind of the observer viewing the snake-like ups-and-downs that run through the whole building.

Palau de la Música Catalana
 Palau de la Musica Catalana, is the center of the Orfeó Català, choral society of the Catalogna. It is found to Barcelona, in Spain.
 It was built between 1905 and 1908 for the Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural and political independence movement that came to be known as the Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth) (Benton 1986, 56; Fahr-Becker 2004, 199). The project was financed primarily by the society, but important financial contributions also were made by Barcelona's wealthy industrialists and bourgeoisie.
  The Palau won the architect an award from the Barcelona City Council in 1909. Between 1982 and 1989, the building underwent extensive restoration, remodeling, and extension under the direction of architects Oscar Tusquets and Carles Díaz (Carandell et al. 2006, 138). In 1997, the Palau de la Música Catalana was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with Hospital de Sant Pau. Today, more than half a million people a year attend musical performances in the Palau that range from symphonic and chamber music to jazz and Canço (Catalan song). The Palau is located on a cramped street, the Carrer de Sant Francesc de Paula, in the section of old Barcelona known as La Ribera.