Barcelona Historic Sites

Historic Sites in Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona Historic Sites

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  • Dimitris L
    Sydney, Australia53,555 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Basílica de Santa Maria del Mar is a huge building. It was built around the 14th century. The architecture is typical of this sort of church. It looks quite majestic in some ways. It is quite stunning.
    Written February 10, 2025
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  • Tony S
    Portsmouth, UK13 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Barcelona is a beautiful city, lots of sightseeing, we stayed at the H10 hotel Montcada just across the road from the Cathedral, ideal location for most of sights.
    Hotel very good,staff excellent and very helpful at all times, breakfast good value, plenty of choice.
    Written October 15, 2024
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  • Dale H
    Sheffield, UK58 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    Visited whilst in the park, you have to buy the ticket separately. It's a nice place with some interesting furniture and facts about Gaudi.
    Written February 14, 2025
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  • JGMcG
    Newport, UK401 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    I loved my recent trip to the Monestir de Pedrables - a peaceful, beautiful oasis. Excellent value as it only cost 5 euro entry. Friendly staff and an easy to follow self guided tour. Loved it.
    Written October 25, 2024
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  • Jamie
    Southampton, UK14 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    We thoroughly enjoyed joyed our trip here! It’s the old bull ring which hosted about 20,000 people and it’s very impressive from the inside. It’s €6 per person and you pay the attendant by the entrance and you can just wonder around the whole place. You can go onto the actual ring and go into where the bulls were kept ect we would recommend going. There is a small shop to buy merchandise and a small museum that you can wander around.
    Written March 7, 2024
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  • stephrab
    New York City, NY891 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    Went to Barcelona to see BARCA soccer team play. They are currently at the stadium here in the Olympic area. Glad we made it up to the area. Very beautiful and well maintained. Access by bus.
    Written May 9, 2024
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  • Maureen041
    Suttons Bay, MI66 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    I was happy to have discovered this street with the chocolate shops. It’s near the cathedral with a charming flea market out front and there’s is also a nice Christmas shop nearby.
    Written November 5, 2024
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  • AlbertSalichs
    Manresa, Spain24,073 contributions
    3.0 of 5 bubbles
    Parc del Fòrum is a modern place located in the surroundings of Barcelona city and close to the Mediterranean Sea, where you can walk, run, go to the beach or come to this place to see some temporal exhibitions. I came here with my almost 7 years old daughter to see "Expo Dinosaures", an exposition of large models of dinosaurs. A nice place to come with children, where they can see a lot of dinosaurs, see a documentary film and play with other children in a children area, where they can dig and find dinosaurs bonds ot they can go up to a "real" dinosaur. Small, but funny and too artificial.
    Written June 26, 2023
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  • Tommo
    Melbourne, Australia57,048 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    The Palau Reial Major is a Royal Palace located in the Placa de Rei which is located in the heart of the Gothic Quarter.

    This is where Christopher Columbus met the Catholic Kings on his return from the Americas in 1492.
    Written January 23, 2024
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  • Reservarlden
    London, UK1,793 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Small but interesting Female Voices exhibition currently being held here with free entry. Good to learn of the plight of females in Spanish history over the years.
    Written December 15, 2024
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  • Virgil S
    Barcelona, Spain665 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Imposing, on the Diagonal Avenue, stands one of the last buildings of modernism in Barcelona, ​​heritage of everything that the masters of the style had done up to that point in Barcelona.
    The work was signed by Gabriel Borrell, but is by the architect and writer Manuel Sayrach, son of the project promoter. Sayrach Jr. had not finished his degree when he conceived this interesting building that denotes a clear influence of Gaudí in the use of curved lines.
    The lobby communicates the outside with the island patio and is divided into different sections covered with vaults supported by columns and bone-shaped capitals. At the end of the corridor, a large arcade lined with shapes reminiscent of a skeleton gives way to a staircase protected by an almost transparent lattice railing, simulating a fishing net, in which very vivid ceramic and enamel elements are embedded. There are also other elements that play an important role in the decoration of the set, such as the lift, the lamps, the furniture at the door, the plinths forming an extraordinary, imaginative sculptural set.
    Written July 21, 2024
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  • Dimitris L
    Sydney, Australia53,555 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    We happened upon this square by chance. Unfortunately nothing much was going on during our visit. There are a few cafes and restaurants in the general area and you can have a drink or a meal in relative peace and quiet. Apparently lots of buskers and artists frequent this area and it becomes quite lively at certain times. The church Església de Santa Maria del Pi, is quite beautiful and is worth visiting too.
    Written May 21, 2019
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  • Vadim
    Murmansk, Russia35,020 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    If you face the statue, you will see a very medieval square, because modern houses will remain behind and to the side. The grey gloomy walls of the Santa Agata Chapel will be the backdrop for the statue of count Ramon Berenguer III by sculptor Josep Llimona i Bruguera installed here in 1888. The stylish architectural ensemble shows that the history of Barcelona doesn`t begin with Gaudi and Catalan modernism...
    Written November 30, 2020
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  • JnVSydney
    Greater Sydney, Australia25,769 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    Located just off the rambla within Plaça Vila de Madri, is a Roman burial ground, it ias possible to see it from street level, or 2 euro entry, amazing the things you see when cruising the streets of this wonderful city.
    Written December 23, 2022
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  • Pelias M
    Barcelona, Spain828 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    It's a park that could be enjoyed for all the family (and free). It's better to have a picnic there, because there are not any bar nor restaurant.
    Written November 13, 2017
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