Visit Barcelona
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Barcelona
Capital of Spain’s northern Mediterranean holiday coast, the Costa Brava, the city of Barcelona is elegant and sophisticated, where holiday creators come to shop until they drop and go on the town in the festive nightlife.
Las Ramblas
is without a doubt the most sophisticated street of Barcelona, with the greatest mixture of people, shoppers and tourists.
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Weather : Barcelona has a Mediterranean climate, with mild, humid winters and warm, dry summers. January and February are the coldest months, averaging temperatures of 10 °C (50 °F). Snowfalls are so rare that they are remembered as special events. July and August are the hottest months, averaging temperatures of 30 °C (86 °F)[citation needed]. The highest recorded maximum temperature in the city itself is 38.6 °C.[14] At the Fabra Observatory, situated on the Tibidabo hill, the record summer temperature is 39.8 °C (103.6 °F). [15] However, it should be noted that the observatory is situated in the hills above the city near Collserola park – an area where the impact of the “heat island” effect is likely to be diminished.[16]
Beaches : Barcelona has seven beaches, totalling 4.5 km (2.8 mi) of coastline. Sant Sebastià and Barceloneta beaches, both 1,100 m (3,610 ft) in length,[12] are the largest, oldest and the most frequented beaches in Barcelona. The Olympic port separates them from the other city beaches: Nova Icària, Bogatell, Mar Bella, Nova Mar Bella and Llevant. These beaches (ranging from 400 to 640 m/1,300 to 2,100 ft) were opened as a result of the city restructuring to host the 1992 Summer Olympics, when a great number of industrial buildings were demolished. At present, the beach sand is replenished from quarries given that storms regularly remove large quantities of material. Greenpeace has criticized the beaches as environmentally unsustainable and as prejudicial to sea bed flora and fauna. The 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures left the city a large concrete bathing zone sited near the municipal incinerator and a sewage treatment plant.
La Rambla : 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 forms Las Ramblas (Spanish and Les Rambles (Catalan). 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. Mostly there are much more tourists occupying las Ramblas then local inhabitants, which as well has changed the character of the commercial offers in the shops and the character of the street in general. [1] For this reason, it has become a prime target for pickpockets. [2] 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’.
