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Tourism in Barcelona is one of the distinctive activities in Spain, where Barcelona has many charming tourist places, which many tourists and visitors do not know about the city.
Tourism in Barcelona allows you to wander around beautiful places where locals live, which also makes you discover the local culture of Barcelona, and enjoy the beautiful geometric art and ancient historical architecture of these wonderful tourist places.
• Catalonia Square
It is the most famous central square in Spain located in its capital Barcelona. It is an important centre for the country that is difficult not to go through by a tourist or a visitor. We find it crowded all year round until it became one of the most important and prominent tourist places in Barcelona and Spain, so that many tourists from all over the world deliberately visit it to know.
Plaza Catalunya Barcelona is distinguished from other squares by being the beating heart of the country that combines many centres and branches, through which you can visit many neighbouring landmarks and streets such as Rambla Street. It also combines the old city with the modern city, where you can visit the old city and learn about most of its heritage landmarks. Plaza Catalonia in Barcelona is a powerful tourist attraction that includes many other small landmarks, such as famous monuments, especially those located in the centre of it, surrounded by a flying pigeon, in addition to many wonderful statues and sculptures.
• Aquarium barcelona
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Located in Port Vell at the end of Larmbla Street and the famous Catalonia area, it displays hundreds of marine creatures and the wonders of the aquatic environment and the seas. Opened on September 8, 1995. It is an ideal place to discover the wonders of various marine life in the Mediterranean Sea and the colourful tropical seas.
The aquarium includes 35 aquariums containing 11,000 aquatic creatures, which belong to 450 species of aquatic life. It contains a total of five million litres of water. Its largest basins are 36 metres in diameter and about 5 metres deep. It is part of the Spanish Aspro Gardens, and contains a tunnel up to a depth of 80 metres under the The stars of this place are bull shark, gray shark, yellow fin, small experimental fish and many mysterious animals.
• Arco de Triunfo de Barcelona
It is a monument located at the intersection of Paseo de San Juan with La Ronda de San Pedro in the Spanish city of Barcelona. It was created by the architect Josep Velasica to be the main gate of the international exhibition in Barcelona in 1888. Sculptures were done by Josep Reinis, Josep Lemona, Anthony Villanova, Torkwat Tasso, Manuel Fosha, and Perry Carbonel. The Arc de Triomphe in Barcelona has a civilian character in order to reach artistic, scientific and economic progress.
The monument was restored in 1989. The Arc de Triomphe is 30 metres high, and its construction style is characterised by selectivity with modernism, Romanskyism, and the new castry style. At the top of the arch are the armour of 49 Spanish provinces, which are in the middle of them and the largest among them, representing the emblem of the Barcelona Shield; they were made of artificial stone and without alo.
• Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
The city of Barcelona is famous for its wonderful treasures and its beautiful artistic tastes in the Middle Ages and classical as well as modern. This is shown in its museums and one of the most important museums is the National Museum. It was the headquarters of Caliph Al-Mansour, but its landmarks were obliterated and turned into a national music museum. It is one of the largest museums of fine arts. It is also called an abbreviated name, which is “Mnak”.
The museum is located in Palau Nacional. It is a large Italian-style building that was established in 1929 and the museum’s holdings have been inside it since 1934 and then declared a museum in 1990.
• Font de Canaletes
An ornate fountain toned by several lamps in Barcelona, Spain, located on Larambla Street near Plaza Catalonia in the city centre. Designed in the late nineteenth century, it was installed to replace an old fountain dating back to the sixteenth century and installed in 1714 during the reign of Philip V. The fountain and the surrounding square are a meeting place for Barcelona fans.
• La Rambla
It is a street in the centre of Barcelona, popular with tourists and locals alike. Trees are lined on both sides, stretching over an area of 1.2 kilometres (0.75 miles) La Rambla is crowded, especially at the height of the tourist season. This street is about 1 square kilometre and is the most exciting destination in the city. This place includes many different activities and fields where we find unique things, reflected in the cuisine, as well as works of art through statues, performers, street artists, which include astrologers, poets, and music artists as well.
• Barceloneta beach
Barcelona Beach is located in a neighbourhood in the Sweetat Villa area of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is a neighbourhood built during the eighteenth century for the residents of the Raipira neighbourhood who were displaced by the construction of Ciudadella in Barcelona. Barcelona’s beaches were chosen by National Geographic as the best city’s beach in the world. The city has 4.5 kilometres of different beaches and Barceloneta beach is probably the most popular among all the beaches there.
• Barcelona park
It is a distinguished garden complex rich in amazing architectural elements and one of the most important landmarks of Barcelona, designed by the famous Catalan architect Anthony Gaudí between 1900 and 1914, to become one of the most beautiful symbols and places in Barcelona. The park has special places for children’s play, beautiful fountains, a library and a museum. The park is located at the This small place is ideal for families, couples, or anyone who wants to enjoy a few hours to discover the wonderful sculptures, the lake, and the zoo, or even enjoy reading a favourite book or novel outdoors.
• New camp of Barcelona
Barcelona is probably the best football team in the world, watching the wonderful Camp Nou stadium and visiting the team museum is often the reason most tourists visit Barcelona. The stadium has about 98,797 seats for viewers to watch Messi and his friends play. The stadium is the largest stadium in Europe and one of the largest stadiums in the world and among the most beautiful tourist places in Barcelona.
• Montserrat
Mount Montserrat is a mountain with several peaks located near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia in northeastern Spain. The mountain is part of the Catalan mountain range beyond the coast, and its highest peaks are St. Gironi (1,236 m), Montrose (1,120 m) and Miranda de Les Goulis (903 AD). The mountain was named after the rocky island of Montserrat. Mount Montserrat is famous for containing the monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat for the Benedictan monastery, which in turn contains the sanctuary of the Virgin of Montserrat, and some believe that this sanctuary is the site of the Holy Grail in the legend of King Arthur.
The highest peak of Mount Montserrat is the summit of Sant Jeroni, at a height of 1,236 metres above sea level. The summit can be reached by several walking routes, connecting it to the upper station of the St. John’s mountain train and the monastery of Santa Maria.
