BARCELONA: LA RAMBLA

La Rambla is one of the most lively and nice places to walk along in Barcelona. Walking along this boulevard is the best way to go from Plaça Catalunya to the Port Vell and the beach.

Artists, interesting buildings, florist's and kiosks give a colourful and bright look to this boulevard, which is also a perfect starting poing to discover two beautiful medieval districts in Barcelona: the Gothic Quarter and El Raval.

Star sights along La Rambla:

• Plaça Catalunya
• Canaletes Fountain
• Liceu Grand Theatre
• Mercat de la Boqueria
• Pla de L'Os
• La Plaça Reial (Royal Square)
• Palau Güell designed by Antoni Gaudí
• Monument to Columbus

Plaça Catalunya

Red flowers in Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona

Plaça Catalunya in Barcelona is usually crowded

Canaletes Fountain

Next to Canaletes fountain supporters of FC Barcelona celebrate the victories of their team

La Rambla

La Rambla is a really lively boulevard in Barcelona. There is always a lot of people walking along

There are some florist's along La Rambla in Barcelona

Tourists near a florist's in La Rambla

Many artists amuse the tourists along La Rambla in Barcelona

As well as florist's and artists, there are also many newspaper kiosks and drinks and ice-cream stands

Liceu Grand Theatre

Next to La Rambla is El Liceu, the most important theatre in Barcelona

Main staircase of Liceu theatre in Barcelona

Mercat de la Boqueria (Boqueria Market)

Main entrance to La Boqueria in Barcelona

Modernist detail of La Boqueria in Barcelona

Fresh fruit in La Boqueria

These peaches have a delicious look

Pla de L'Os

Work of Art of Joan Mirò on La Rambla in Barcelona

La Plaça Reial

Next to La Rambla is the Plaça Reial (Royal Square), a really lively place daylight and at night

A detail of the fountain in the middle of Royal Square

Palau Güell

Dome of the central hall of El Palau Güell in Barcelona

Coming back to La Rambla

La Rambla near the marina of Barcelona

Monument to Columbus at the end of La Rambla. The marina begins there

Below you have some fashion stores you can find in La Rambla:

• Casas Internacional (La Rambla, 125) 
• Desigual (La Rambla, 136 and 140) 
• Felgar (La Rambla, 132)
• Casa Gimeno (La Rambla, 100)

Beside La Rambla, in the old city of Barcelona you can also visit other beautiful places:

• Cathedral of Barcelona 
• Church of Santa Maria del Mar
• Plaça del Pi and Santa Maria del Pi
• Plaça del Rei
• Sant Felip Neri Square and Church
• Plaça de Sant Just and Sant Just i Pastor church
• Barcino Roman City
• Santa Anna Church

• El Portal de L'Angel (Shopping street)
• Call Jueu (Jewish Quarter)
• Born-La Ribera district
• Sant Pere de les Puelles church
• Carrer Petritxol

Finally, clicking on the next link you will find links to more beautiful and interesting places of Barcelona.

BARCELONA - GAUDI: PABELLONS GÜELL

Fantasy and technical innovation come together in the former gatehouses of the Güell Estate, on Barcelona’s Avinguda Pedralbes. The beauty and colour of the buildings don’t eclipse the main protagonist of the ensemble: the giant mythological dragon from the Garden of the Hesperides, a synthesis of Gaudí’s symbolism and craftsmanship.

Eusebi Güell’s desire to extend his family’s holiday home in Barcelona resulted in Antoni Gaudí’s first commission from the man who would become his main patron. Gaudí worked on the project from 1884 to 1887, relandscaping the garden and building the two gatehouses, which were intended to be the caretaker’s house and the stables.

Pabellons Güell designed by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona

Beautiful wrought-iron gate in the shape of a dragon of Pabellons Güell in Barcelona

Mithological dragon in Pabellons Güell designed by Antoni Gaudí

Pabellons Güell designed by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona

Güell Estate’s gatehouses have a stone base and brick parabolic arches with bright ceramic decorations in geometric shapes. 

I would like to give you some useful informatión in case you want to visit this building designed by Gaudí:

- Address: Avinguda Pedralbes, 7, Barcelona

- Phone: 933 177 652 / 934 020 243

- Guided Visits: 932 562 504

- Web site: www.rutadelmodernisme.com

- E-mail: cultura-impuqv@bcn.cat

- How to get there:

• Metro L3, stop Palau Reial
• Bus 7, 33, 63, 67, 74, 75 and 78
• Tram T1, T2 and T3, stop Palau Reial
• Barcelona Bus Turístic, stop Palau Reial.

Accessible to people with reduced mobility

Clicking on the next links you will find more pictures of the most important buildings designed by Antoni Gaudí:

• Sagrada Familia
• Park Güell
• Casa Vicens
• Casa Milà (also known as La Pedrera)
• Casa Batlló
• Palau Güell
• Col·legi de les Teresianes
• Casa Calvet
• Torre Bellesguard and Viaduct
• Crypt of the church of Colonia Güell
• El Capricho (built in Comillas, a lovely village in Cantabria)

Besides, other modernist buildings you can visit in Barcelona are:

• Hospital de Sant Pau
• Palau de la Música Catalana
• La Boqueria
• Casa Fuster
• Casa Terrades or "Casa de les Punxes"
• Casa Thomas
• Casa Amatller
• Casa Lleó i Morera
• Casa Martí (Restaurant els Quatre Gats)

Finally, clicking on the next link you will find more links to other beautiful places in Barcelona, among them, more fantastic modernist masterpieces you can see along the Modernist Route.

BARCELONA GAUDI: CASA CALVET

The Casa Calvet de Barcelona (1899) is one of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings and was built by Antoni Gaudí for the textile manufacturer Pere Màrtir Calvet, who set up his business premises on the ground floor and in the basement, and used the upper floors as his private residence. 

The Casa Calvet pays tribute to the baroque Catalan style and was built from stone quarried on Montjuïc, and features splendid wrought ironwork on the balconies. The hall and ground floor are particularly interesting and the latter now houses a restaurant, where you can see the typical Catalan ceiling, granite Solomonic columns and arches with their vine-shaped reliefs.

Casa Calvet designed by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona

Casa Calvet contains modernist elements, such as the façade which terminates in a curve and the attic balconies, which look like something from a fairy tale

The ground floor of Casa Calvet in Barcelona now houses a restaurant. Columns in the shape of cotton bobbins flank the entrance

Another view of the façade of Casa Calvet, designed by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona

Balconies of Casa Calvet in Barcelona

Casa Calvet in Barcelona features splendid wrought ironwork on the balconies

Another balcony of Casa Calvet in Barcelona

I would like to give you some useful informatión in case you want to visit this building designed by Gaudí:


- Address: Casp, 48, Barcelona

- How to get there:

• Metro L1 and L4, stop Urquinaona
• Bus 39, 45, 47 and 62

Clicking on the next links you will find more pictures of the most important buildings designed by Antoni Gaudí:

• Sagrada Familia
• Park Güell
• Casa Vicens
• Casa Milà (also known as La Pedrera)
• Casa Batlló
• Palau Güell
• Col·legi de les Teresianes
• Torre Bellesguard and Viaduct
• Pabellons Güell
• Crypt of the church of Colonia Güell
• El Capricho (built in Comillas, a lovely village in Cantabria)

Other fantastic modernist buildings in Barcelona are:

• Hospital de Sant Pau
• Palau de la Música Catalana

Finally, clicking on the next link you will find more links to other beautiful places in Barcelona, among them, more fantastic modernist masterpieces you can see along the Modernist Route.