sight seeing in Barcelona

11 Feb 2007

The objective of the day was to venture out in Barcelona …I had done the necessary study and had come to the conclusion that taking the “Barcelona turistic” would be the best thing to do since it will take me to the all the important places…

What I later liked about this decision was that one could hop in / hop off as many times into the buses..This is not the only bus one takes to tour..There are probably hundreds of buses that run everday in Barcelona and one can get a this bus in every 5-10 mins..Absolutely fantastic for the tourist ! One can get the value for the 19 Euros ....The tourist places are divided into red and blue zones and there are buses that run only in that zone..There are many points where one can transfer from blue to red and vice versa..As far as I can recollect, this was one of the best tourist tours that I have ever done.. I remember the one we had taken in San Francisco and we had missed the bus and had to take a taxi all the way to the airport….I hope the tourism facility has improved elsewhere also.

The city has a very architectural touch and I remember several times the name of “ Antonio Gaudi” was repeated. I assume that he was one of the very great architects and he has done several structures/buildings some of which are included in this blog.

Infact, San Francisco has some similarity to Barcelona with the up/down terrains inside the city and the architecture/buildings have resemblance, which ofcourse should because of the Spanish history…

Some statistics ( copied from the guide )

Founding 1 BC

Population 1.5 M

10095 sq km

Catalan and Spanish

Average temperature – 14 – 19 degree C