Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Barcelona, Spain
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Experience Barcelona in Spain in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in BarcelonaIndividual Sights in BarcelonaSight 1: El món neix en cada besada
The world is born in every kiss is a photomosaic located in Plaça d'Isidre Nonell, in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona. It was taken by the photographer Joan Fontcuberta and the ceramist Toni Cumella in 2014.
Sight 2: Roman Sepulchral Via
The sepulchral road in the Plaza de la Vila in Madrid is a Roman necropolis of the first century in Barcelona, declared a cultural asset of national interest. Although the site is at a lower level than the street, the urbanization of the square allows it to be seen in its entirety. Their exceptionality lies in the fact that the tombs have been found in their original context, since of the vast majority of known Roman tombs only stone blocks reused in other works are preserved.
Wikipedia: Via sepulcral de la plaça de la Vila de Madrid (CA)
Sight 3: Parròquia Basílica de Santa Maria del Pi
Santa Maria del Pi is a 15th-century Gothic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the Plaça del Pi, in the Barri Gòtic district of the city.
Sight 4: Museu de la Moto
The Barcelona Motorcycle Museum was a privately owned museum that was active between 2011 and 2017. Based at number 10 Carrer de la Palla in Barcelona, in the heart of the Gothic Quarter, it was dedicated to the exhibition of motorcycles from different periods, from donations or transfers from individuals and from the museum collection of the Bassella Motorcycle Museum.
Wikipedia: Museu de la Moto de Barcelona (CA), Website, Designation
Sight 5: Bàrcino
Bàrcino is an urban poem created by Joan Brossa in 1994. It is located in the Plaza Nova of Barcelona, in front of the ancient Roman and medieval walls of the city. The work was commissioned by the Barcelona City Council to the poet from Barcelona, to create a space that would delimit the square from the walls.
Sight 6: Església de Sant Sever
The church of Sant Sever is located on the street of the same name in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, very close to the Cathedral, and is listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. Unlike most of Barcelona's churches, it was not destroyed during the Civil War, which is why the interior, an example of Catalan Baroque, has been so well preserved. Since 2002, it has been part of the chapter of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Sight 7: Barcelona Shoe Museum
![Barcelona Shoe Museum](/static/images/wikipedia/Spain_Barcelona_Barcelona-Shoe-Museum.jpg)
The Barcelona Footwear Museum is a small museum located in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri that was inaugurated in 1970 and closed at the end of 2015. He stayed in the House of the Shoemakers' Guild, headquarters of the brotherhood of master shoemakers. The building is a work protected as a cultural asset of local interest.
Sight 8: Sinagoga Major de Barcelona
![Sinagoga Major de Barcelona](/static/images/wikipedia/Spain_Barcelona_Sinagoga-Major-de-Barcelona.jpg)
The House at Carrer de Salomó ben Adret, 7 is a building located on the street of the same name on the corner of Marlet Street in Barcelona, listed as a cultural asset of local interest. On the ground floor the remains of the old Main Synagogue of Barcelona are preserved.
Sight 9: Homenatge als castellers
Homage to the castellers is a monument dedicated to the castellers by the Catalan sculptor Antoni Llena i Font. It is located in Plaça de Sant Miquel in Barcelona, in the Gothic Quarter, a square close to the Casa de la Ciutat, the seat of the Barcelona City Council, and Plaça de Sant Jaume, the place where human towers are traditionally built. It was made between 2010 and 2011 and was inaugurated on February 12, 2012 during the Santa Eulàlia Festival. It is the third human tower monument in Barcelona, along with the sculpture by Francesc Anglès and Garcia Pom de dalt (1995), located in the Traumatology and Rehabilitation Unit of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, and the Castellers de Sants monument (2011), located in Plaça de Bonet i Muixí, in the Sants district.
Sight 10: Temple d'August
The Temple of Augustus in Barcelona was a Roman temple built during the Imperial period in the colony of Barcino. The temple was the central building on Tàber Hill, currently in Carrer del Paradís number 10, in the city's so-called Gothic Quarter. The dedication to Augustus is traditional, but unproven.
Sight 11: Topos V
Topos V, or simply Topos, is a sculpture by the Basque artist Eduardo Chillida, standing at Plaça del Rei in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona.
Sight 12: Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar
Santa Maria del Mar is a church in the Ribera district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, built between 1329 and 1383 at the height of Principality of Catalonia's maritime and mercantile preeminence. It is an outstanding example of Catalan Gothic, with a purity and unity of style that is very unusual in large medieval buildings.
Sight 13: Museu de Cultures del Món
The Museum of World Cultures was a museum specialising in the history of various cultures from around the world that occupies the Palau Nadal, former headquarters of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Barcelona, as well as the Palau del Marquès de Llo, former headquarters of the Design Museum, at Carrer de Montcada, 12 and 14 in Barcelona. The cost of the adaptation works was 4,195,000 euros. and the project was commissioned to the architects Tomàs Morató and Jaume Arderiu.
Sight 14: Picasso Museum
The Museu Picasso is an art museum in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It houses an extensive collection of artworks by the twentieth-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, with a total of 4251 of his works. It is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces on Montcada Street in the La Ribera neighborhood in the Old City of Barcelona. It opened to the public on 9 March 1963, becoming the first museum dedicated to Picasso's work and the only one created during his lifetime. It has since been declared a museum of national interest by the Government of Catalonia.
Sight 15: Capella d'en Marcús
The Chapel of Marcús or Mare de Déu de la Guia is a temple located on the corner of Carrer dels Carders and Placeta d'en Marcús in Barcelona, listed as a cultural asset of local interest.
Sight 16: La Puntual
![La Puntual](/static/images/wikipedia/Spain_Barcelona_La-Puntual.jpg)
La Puntual is a theatre, located at Carrer d'Allada-Vermell, 15 in Barcelona, specialising in puppet, puppet and shadow puppet theatre.
Sight 17: Museu de la Xocolata
Museu de la Xocolata or Museo del Chocolate in Spanish, is a private museum in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, owned by the Gremio de Pastelería de Barcelona.
Sight 18: Laboratori de Natura
The Nature Laboratory is one of the four headquarters of the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona. It is located in the building of the Castle of the Three Dragons in the Parc de la Ciutadella and houses the zoology collections, to which will be added the geology collections of the Martorell Museum. It is a facility that brings together the scientific functions dedicated to documenting and increasing understanding of the natural world. These functions are specified in the conservation of the heritage of reference collections of natural sciences and documentaries, in the research and study of natural cultural heritage, and in the publication of reference works. It also houses the Natura Sonora Sound Library, the documentation centre and a specialised library.
Sight 19: Jarrón con niños
The Children's Fountain, also known as the Vase with Children, is a sculpture located in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, in the Ciutat Vella district. A work by Josep Reynés from 1893, it is one of the most popular sculptures in the park. This work is registered as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/647.
Sight 20: Glorieta de la transsexual Sonia
The Glorieta de la Transsexual Sònia is a public space located in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona. Called Musician Glorieta, it was renamed in 2013 in memory of Sònia Recalvo Zafra, a transsexual killed by a fascist six -headed neo -Nazi -headed fascist group in 1991. In the first five years after the premiere, three times it was stolen or stolen. meter damaged the plate.
Sight 21: Cascada del Parc de la Ciutadella
The Parc de la Ciutadella Waterfall, also known as the Great Waterfall or Monumental Waterfall, is an architectural and sculptural complex with fountains and water springs in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, listed as a cultural asset of local interest. It was built between 1875 and 1888 according to a general design by Josep Fontserè i Mestre, while the hydraulic project was the work of Antoni Gaudí, and Rossend Nobas, Venanci Vallmitjana, Eduard B. Alentorn, Francesc Pagès i Serratosa, Josep Gamot, Manuel Fuxà, Joan Flotats and Rafael Atché took part in its sculptural elements. It has been restored in 1956, 1972, 1989 and 2009.
Sight 22: Mamut
The Mammoth is a sculpture located in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, near the Monumental Waterfall. The work of the Catalan sculptor Miquel Dalmau, it was inaugurated on December 12, 1907. Made of painted reinforced concrete, it represents a mammoth on a natural scale: 5.60 m high, 7.50 m long and 2.30 m wide.
Sight 23: Barcelona a Prim
Barcelona a Prim is a sculptural monument located in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, in the Ciutat Vella district. It was created in 1887 with an architectural design by Josep Fontserè i Mestre, while the sculptural part was in charge of Lluís Puiggener. The original work was destroyed in 1936 and replaced in 1948 by another by Frederic Marès. The monument is dedicated to the Catalan military and politician Joan Prim i Prats, President of the Council of Ministers of Spain and one of the architects of the 1868 Revolution. This work is registered as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/870.
Sight 24: Homenatge a Picasso
Homage to Picasso is a work by Antoni Tàpies that is located on the Paseo de Picasso in Barcelona. The work is covered by a glass cube of 4m on each side, bordered by a small pond of eleven square meters. Water comes out of the side walls of the glass.
Sight 25: El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria
Mercat del Born is a former public market and one of the most important buildings in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain constructed with iron. Located in the lower and eastern side of the la Ribera neighborhood, it is the largest covered square in all of Europe and marked the start of Modernisme in Catalan architecture.
Sight 26: Water tower for “La Catalana de Gas” company
The Parc de la Barceloneta is located in the neighbourhood of the same name in Barcelona, bordered by the streets of Doctor Aiguader and Gas, and the promenades of Barceloneta and Salvat Papasseit. From the old Catalana de Gas factory, the metal structure of the gasometer, designed by the engineer Claudi Gil i Serra in 1868, as well as the water tower and the office building, listed as a cultural asset of local interest, remain.
Sight 27: Parc del Port Olímpic
The Olympic Port Park is located in the Olympic Village of Poblenou in Barcelona, next to the Olympic Port. It was created in 1992 according to a design by the MBM Arquitectes team.
Sight 28: Parc de Nova Icària
The Nova Icària Park is located in the Olympic Village of Poblenou in Barcelona, next to the Nova Icària Beach. It was created in 1992 according to a design by the MBM Arquitectes team. The name comes from the Greek island of Icaria, which was recalled by Étienne Cabet in his work Voyage en Icarie, giving rise to the utopian project of the Icarians. Between 1846 and 1847, some of his followers in Barcelona settled in this area of the Poblenou district, which they named Nova Icària.
Sight 29: Parc del Poblenou
The Parc del Poblenou in Barcelona is located between the buildings of the neighbourhood of the same name in Barcelona and the sea.
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