Blog from our guides: Unusual details of Barcelona...

How to buy Barcelona monument tickets on-line…

Sagrada Familia, casa Batló and Parc Güell are the most visited monuments in Barcelona. Queues can be long and uncomfortable during holidays and peak season. To avoid these problems it is important to buy the tickets in advance.
Here is a list of Barcelona’s principal monument web sites to buy tickets on-line...

Dilbar, the extravagant Mega-yacht...

The obscene exaggeration of the mega-rich can be seen in the old port of Barcelona. Dilbar, the mega-yacht is a clear example, because of its size and price, of the extravagance that the new Russian multi-millionaires can afford.

Russian mega-yachts in the Barcelona port...

The old port of Barcelona has been transformed during the past several years, despite opposition from many residents of the area, into a port for mega-yachts, such as ACE, owned by a Russian billionaire...

Mysteries and legends of Barcelona...

Many legends circulate about the bridge linking the Palace of the Generalitat and the building opposite, especially explaining why you can see at the bottom a sculpture of a skull pierced by a dagger...

Barcelona's beaches guide…

Barcelona has more than 5 km of beaches. The atmosphere of each section of the beach varies greatly, and the public changes radically. A guide to finding the best beach in the city...

Details of Barcelona - Homage to Gaudí by Tokyo Ito...

On the prestigious avenue of Passeig de Gracia, opposite the Gaudí modernist building "La Pedrera", rises this spectacular ultra-modern facade, breaking with the classicism of the surrounding buildings...

Details of Barcelona - Mosaic from Miró in the ramblas...

In the center of the Ramblas, at the junction with hospital street, you can admire, if the flow of tourists permits, a mosaic made by Joan Miró. The artist wanted to offer visitors three works of art in order to welcome travelers arriving to Barcelona by sea, air and land...

“El Ingenio" a unique shop, that is about to disappear.

In the heart of the Gothic Quarter, in an alley two steps away from the Ramblas, a century-old store is about to disappear...
"El Ingenio", can be spotted thanks to Picasso’s big headed paper mache look alike that invites us to go there since 1938.

Details of Barcelona - Keith Haring's mural

In February 1989, Keith Haring made this 34 meter mural, on what at the time was a dirty wall in the most degraded part of the Raval neighborhood...

Details of Barcelona - Picasso's frescos

Lots of people walk by the enormous frescos that decorate the Barcelona Architects association without knowing they are passing by a work of art by Picasso...