BARCELONA

INDEX• History about the city• Barcelona Government• City center• Cuitadella• Sagrada Família• Gaudi’s buildings• The Glories square• The ports• Poble Espanyol• The mountains• The teams• La Mercè

BARCELONA HISTORY

The origin of Barcelona is roman

In 1992 Barcelona organized the Olympic games

This city is the second important and bigger city in the country and the capital of the autonomous community Catalonia.

BARCELONA GOVERMENT

The Barcelona town hall is chaired by Jordi Hereu of the Socialist Party of Catalonia.

FOOTBALL CLUB BARCELONAThe president of the club is Sandro Rossell and the coach of the first team is

Pep Guardiola in Football and Xavi Pasqual in Barcelona

The best players in football are Messi, the best player of the world, Iniesta, Xavi, Puyol and Pique.

The football field are named Camp Nou

ESPAÑOLIs the other team for city.

The president is Daniel Sánchez Llibre and the coach is Mauricio Pochetino

The most known players are Luis Garcia Cameni, Ivan de la Peña, and Dani Jarque who recently decreased.

LA MERCÈMercé is the Barcelona patron, and when we celebrated this significant and

important day is 24th of September.

This and the days around the ajuntament arrange all type of activites for all ages, the most famous is the Piromusical, an union of music, color and light at night in the Magic Font.

MAP OF THE CITY CENTER

CITY CENTER

Las Ramblas when we can find florists, pet shops and costumes in the street.

Portal de l’ÀngelPasseig de Gràcia

Plaça Catalunya is the most central part of the city.

•It is the most important of Barcelona.•It’ s situated in Les Rambles, and always there are a lot of people taking photos.•In it we can found a lot of different type of food

RAMBLAS

BARRI GOTIC

Situated in the ancient Barcino city, the first Romanesquen city. There are a lot of important gothic monuments

Santa Eulalia, the cathedral

Santa Maria del mar La generalitat

Town Hall Roman ruins

CIUTADELLA

Arc de triomf

Zoological garden

Catalonian parliament

It was an ancient military area but now it’s a green park which contains parliament and the zoological gardens.

SAGRADA FAMÍLIA

They started to build it on the 19th March, 1882 – however it is still not finished!

It represents the life of Jesus and history of Religion.

How it will be…

PARC GÜELL

LA PEDRERA

CASA BATLLÓ

These are some of the most important monuments in Barcelona designed by Antoni Gaudí.

GAUDI’S BUILDINGS

THE GLORIES SQUARE

There are three important avenues and they across the square together: Diagonal, Gran Via and Meridiana.

Near it, there are some important like:• Agbar Tower•Monumental place•Auditori

OLD PORT Near to the centre and Colon statue and the cable car.

This place is diverse.

OLIMPIC PORT

This is a maritime walk that covers the length of Barcelona.

Here there are some casinos and restaurants. It`s an popular place to go to parties at night.

POBLE ESPAÑOL

It’s a different and unique area because represents each region of Spain.

It was built for the UniversalExposition in 1929 to show different places of Spain to the visitors.

TIBIDABOTibidabo is a mountain in Barcelona. At the top there is:• A theme park• A modernist church• A hotel called Florida• Three towers

At the top of this mountain you can see a wonderful view of the entire city.

MONTJUICMontjuic is a mountain and at the top it has a palace. In montjuic we can find:•Poble Espanyol • Tower of communications • Different museums• The palace of Sant Jordi• Font Màgica• Different gardens• Looking-points

Palace

Palace of Sant Jordi and tower of comunications

Joan Maragall gardensFont Màgica