Centro Comercial Las Arenas (Barcelona)

Arenas de Barcelona abre sus puertas de nuevo tras varios años de inactividad y lo hace a lo grande, con un espacio vanguardista que integra comercio, ocio y cultura y que ha sabido conjugar pasado y presente para devolverle a la Ciudad Condal uno de sus edificios más emblemáticos.

Este conjunto, situado en la antigua plaza de toros, está ubicado en uno de los centros turísticos y económicos de Barcelona: la Plaza de España. Un punto neurálgico que conecta la Gran Vía con el aeropuerto de El Prat y con el puerto de Barcelona a través de la Avenida del Paralelo, y que está situado a escasa distancia de la estación de Sants, lo que lo convierte en un punto de referencia de la ciudad. Además, justo enfrente de Arenas de Barcelona se encuentra la Fira de Barcelona, que cada año acoge a más de 3 millones de visitantes. Gracias a este emplazamiento excepcional cuenta también con un transporte público inmejorable (metro, autobús, Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat de Catalunya y paradas de taxis). 

Calella de Palafrugell

Calella de Palafrugell is one of three coastal towns belonging to the municipality of Palafrugell, province of Girona, Spain, the other two being Llafranc and Tamariu. It is part of the Costa Brava, the coastal region of northeastern Catalonia, in the comarca of Baix Empordà. Calella de Palafrugell is a small holiday resort and fishing village near Palafrugell and a short distance along the coast from Llafranc. 

Calella de Palafrugell has an excellent setting and, whilst busy in the summer season, it does not have the large hotels and mass tourism of other Costa Brava resorts such as Lloret de Mar. The coastline of the town stretches some two kilometres south to the El Golfet beach - part of the Cap Roig headland where beautiful Botanical gardens are located.

Calella de Palafrugell has a number of beautiful small coves linked to Llafranc via a coastal walk.

Peratallada

La historia de Peratallada está estrechamente ligada a la época medieval. Es en este período cuando tenemos los primeros testimonios escritos sobre la villa. Algunos documentos del s. X la mencionan con los nombres de «Petra scissa« y «Petra tallada». El castillo de Peratallada, alrededor del cual quedó resguardada la población, fue el centro de la baronía que pertenecía a dicho linaje de los Peratallada, documentados desde el siglo XI.

El núcleo recuerda esta vinculación con una feria de época que se celebra el primer fin de semana de octubre y aprovecha como escenario las calles y plazas del casco antiguo, donde aún es posible captar la esencia de aquel período.

Comediantes, juglares, titiriteros, cuentacuentos y todo tipo de personajes de época vuelven a ocupar el pueblo, en el que se recrea un mercado medieval. En las paradas se pueden encontrar todo tipo de productos elaborados artesanalmente: quesos, miel, hierbas, pan, pasteles, etc.

La oferta comercial se complementa con exhibiciones de oficios tradicionales como el de esclopeter, cestero, hilandera, entre otros. Paralelamente, se celebran una serie de actividades lúdicas y culturales abiertas a la participación del público asistente.

El primer fin de semana de octubre, este año el 1 y 2 de octubre, se celebra en esta bonita villa el Mercat Medieval de Peratallada que tiene lugar en las calles y plazas del núcleo antiguo, y dónde todavía es posible respirar el ambiente de este período. 

TOSSA de MAR

The “Vila Vella enceinte” is the only example of a fortified medieval town still standing on the Catalan coast. Its present appearance dates back to the end of the 14th century. It still has the entire original perimeter with battlemented stone walls, four turrets and three cylindrical towers with parapets. At the highest point, where the lighthouse stands today, was, until the beginning of the 19th century, the castle of the Abbot of the Monastery Santa Maria de Ripoll, the territorial Lord of the town. The site has been declared a national historic monument in 1931.

The interior of the Old Town is a charming place with narrow, cobblestoned streets, the Governor’s House (now the Municipal museum), the House of Holy Cloth (“Sant Drap”), a medieval hospital, an remnants of a Romanesque church and a Gothic church.

History

There is ample evidence of settlements dating back to the Neolithic period, and it is believed that the area has been continuously populated since that time. Between the 4th century BC and the 1st century BC appeared the first settlementsof the Iberians, followed shortly after by the Romans in the 1st century.

In 966 Tossa was ceded by Count Miró of Barcelona to the Abbey of Ripoll. Some two centuries later, in 1187 Tossa was granted its charter by the Abbot of Ripoll, coinciding with the building of a church atop Mount Guardí, the remnants of which can still be seen today.

Sometime in the 12th century the mediaeval town was walled off and a castle was built on the highest point of Mt. Guardí, this castle was to be subsequently replaced by a wind mill, and this in turn by a lighthouse which is still operational.

By the year 1500 the first houses were built extra-muros to accommodate population growth. This process was greatly accelerated during the 17th and 18th centuries, shaping an urban configuration which was to remain practically unchanged until the arrival of mass tourism in the 1950s.

In 1989 Tossa de Mar was the first place in the world to the declare itself an Anti-Bullfighting City.

La Sagrada Familia - Barcelona

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is a work on a grand scale which was begun on 19 March 1882 from a project by the diocesan architect Francisco de Paula del Villar (1828-1901). At the end of 1883 Gaudí was commissioned to carry on the works, a task which he did not abandon until his death in 1926. Since then different architects have continued the work after his original idea.

The building is in the centre of Barcelona, and over the years it has become one of the most universal signs of identity of the city and the country. It is visited by millions of people every year and many more study its architectural and religious content.

It has always been an expiatory church, which means that since the outset, 125 years ago now, it has been built from donations. Gaudí himself said: “The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.” The building is still going on and could be finished some time in the first third of the 21st century.

S’Agaró is an upmarket resort on the Costa Brava between Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Castell-Platja d’Aro in Spain.

In the early 1920s Josep Ensesa Gubert, the son of a successful Girona industrialist, persuaded his father to buy the land between the bay at Sant Pol and the long beach at Sa Conca north of Sant Feliu de Guixols. The area didn’t even have a name, so the family chose to call it after the Agaro stream that ran through it. Inhabited by squirrels and lizards, supervised by gulls that would inspire the inn’s name, the treeless scrub offered little but a gentle climate, splendid isolation and dazzling views. Not to mention the intoxicating scent of pine trees mixed with aniseed plants that grew wild, even to this day. Josep Ensesa was (thankfully) determined that the mystic spirit of the place was not to be sacrificed to the demands of property development as the rest of the Costa Brava succumbed over the next eight decades to the present.

To assure that the development (a community of seaside villas and a small inn) would be in sympathy with the landscape, he turned to an architect, Rafael Masó i Valentí, an outspoken campaigner for traditional Catalan design. Mr. Masó drew on the local architectural vocabulary of porticos, towers, terraces and low roof lines to conjure a colony aimed at those with artistic tastes. Purchasers of land bound themselves to carefully drawn contracts that guaranteed buildings of visual unity. After Masó’s death in 1935 Francesc Folguera took over the project, going on to built the church situated on the highest point of the resort.

To date, the promontory contains about 60 exclusive houses with part of the camí de ronda following S’Agaro’s coastline in its entirety.

Port de Barcelona. The oldest part of the port is open to the heart of Barcelona, so it’s easy access by public transport. The metro line 3 of Barcelona, at “Drassaness direct access to the area of the ferry terminal and bus lines 59, 14, 91, 57, 157 also provide access to the port. La Rambla in its external Tues communicate with the port city on the Portal de la Pau, where you will find the Monument to Columbus. Also provides shuttle bus service for cruise ships, and direct access to the Ronda Litoral (B-10) for access by car.

An attractive way of looking at the port as a whole and from the heights is the Barcelona air shuttle, which crosses through the air from Torre Sant Sebastia in Barceloneta, passing the Torre Jaume I with the World Trade Center, communicating port with the mountain of Montjuic.

Parc Güell Barcelona. Between 1900 and 1903 were built the staircase leading to the central square. It is a double staircase, symmetrical, flanked by walls decorated with ceramic emmerletats different colors. The most unique items are located in the central axis that divides the stairs. There are several sources sculptures covered with brittle, one of which represents Catalonia. But the most famous sculpture, an emblem of the entire park and, by extension, in the same city, is the alchemical dragon or lizard, also made with brittle ceramic varied colors.

Hotel of a family tradition since 1914, situated on the famous Paseo de La Rambla near the Plaça de Catalunya. Historical, commercial and business area of Barcelona, allows you visit on foot the main monuments of the city, to shop, attend meetings and conferences or enjoy the best plays in our city theaters with ease. Like ensures a good connection to public transport in the city and Barcelona’s Airport.
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