Central Barcelona Hotels

Museu Picasso is known as being the city's most visited museum and it is definitely a "must". Housed within three gorgeous stone mansions, on the Carrer de Montcada, this fabulous museum dedicated to the great Picasso, boasts numerous works that show the artists earliest masterpieces, the collection being especially strong on his Blue Period with canvases like The Defenceless, ceramics and his early works from the 1890s.

Old, new...Visitors will find everything in this wonderful city called Barcelona.

The city's unique mix of history and modernism offers visitors a unique travel experience that leaves the urge to be felt again, making people to return again and again.

Among the things that visitors cannot miss, before leaving Barcelona, in addition to the Sagrada Familia, the Ramblas or the Picasso Museum, there are:

- walk Around the Gothic Quarter, considered to be the city's most famous district;

- look Down on the City from Tibidabo;

- take a day trip to the majestic Montserrat, which is only an hour away from Barcelona;

- visit Fundació Joan Miró, one of the greatest museums in the world;

- stroll around the leafy gardens of the Teatre Grec;

- take photos of everything (of course);

- chow down some delicious fresh seafood;

- fill your suitcase with local souvenirs for everyone back home;

- relax and sip a cocktail on a terrace;

- bag some designer bargains at La Roca Village, which is only half an hour away, featuring more than 50 discount outlets with designer apparel;

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Plenty to do, so much to see....

Did you know....

- on average, 150 000 people walk along the Rambla, every day;

- every hour of every day, there are over three thousand pedestrians that stroll through Fontanella-Portal del Angel;

- over one million people a week visit the Barna Centre;

- Barcelona is to thank for World Book Day;

- Barcelona is the first city to win a RIBA Royal Gold Medal for its architecture;

- despite popular believe, flamenco is not well-known in Barcelona;

- Barcelona is considered the "best beach city" in the world by National Geographic.