Use our city guides to help you decide where to
go, choose which hotel to stay in with the help of our interactive
maps, and what to do when you get there! We have built together
a large database of essential city information as well as lo cost
flights and accomodation to these destinations. Our city breaks
are a combination of our lowest flights and accomodation without
negating your creature comforts.
The airport is situated
8miles south west of City
Centre. Buses, taxis and shuttles
are available and take 20-40minutes.
Tips on city breaks to
Barcelona
While there's no danger of running out of things to do in Barcelona, there is a
serious risk that you'll be so overwhelmed by the number and variety of the
city's attractions, that you may miss out on the things you actually went to
see. To help, here's a list of some of the city's highlights:
Gaudi
and Modernist Architecture Barcelona’s architectural claim to fame is
Modernism, a Spanish and mainly Catalan derivative of Art Nouveau that spanned
the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. The wild creations of several Modernist
architects stud the landscape, but Antonio Gaudi is, hands-down, the most
revered. He designed 10 buildings as well as other flights of fancy throughout
the city, such as his Casa Mila, which has an undulating facade and
whimsical chimneystacks parading across the roof. The emblematic Sagrada
Familia Church, Gaudi’s incomplete masterpiece that he worked on for 40
years before he was killed by a street tram in 1926, is perhaps one of
Barcelona's most famous and recognisable landmarks. And the city is still
labouring away at it. Then there’s Parc Guell, a lush public park oozing
with his characteristic curiosities: sinuous, snake-like benches with
intricately laid vibrant tiles, bizarre colonnades, a mosaic pagoda and lizard
sculptures.
The Rambla Heaven for people watchers, this is
arguably Spain’s most famous street — an endless spectacle of street performers,
cafes, kiosks and artists selling their wares. Take a stroll, smell the
brilliant flowers and then grab a café chair and watch the wacky world go by.
It’s a cacophony of musicians, jugglers, mimes, puppeteers, Elvis-impersonators
and drag queens. Even the locals love it.
Gothic Quarter The
oldest part of the city, this maze of crooked, narrow streets winds through what
was formerly an ancient fortified Roman village. You’ll stumble upon surprises
at every turn: churches, palaces, museums, art galleries, shops, antiques shops
and tapas bars. The gorgeous cathedral at Placa de la Seu was begun in
the 13th Century and finished in the 15th Century.
