This waterfront shopping center is Barcelona’s biggest mall - half shops - half clubs. By day it makes for a nice stroll with friends or family over the narrow wooden walkway from the end of the Rambla. By night the many clubs, pubs and bars take over. There is everything from Techno to Irish pubs to Salsa and the party isn’t over till the fat lady sings or a tourist falls in the harbour on his way home. Prices are somewhat high, but usually no cover charge.
At the end of “La Rambla” there’s the harbor. We are now on the arch over the sea that links “Maremagnum” with “La Rambla”. At your left, you can see the Columbus monument. The discoverer of America is pointing in the amiss direction, because he credibility to the east at the Mediterranean Sea, and America is on the added ancillary to the west.
At the end of the Ramblas there is the old port, and crossing a modern wooden bridge you arrive at Maremagnum area: a hot night spot, with tapas bars, restaurants, latin American bars and clubs. Many and many people comes here on the summer nights to have fun and dance all night long.
Finally, “Maremagnum” is a actual acknowledged new arcade and chargeless time area. You can acquisition actuality 12 cinemas, the Imax, and a advanced array of restaurants, pubs and discos. Night activity begins actuality about 11 pm and lasts till 6 am, but if you are 20 or older, this is not the abode to be –too abounding teenagers.
A night out in Barcelona is a long-distance race. Be sure to start slowly so that you are able to face the exuberant party-scene until the early morning. As everything else in Barcelona, also nightlife sets off a few hours later. Start your evening out in one of the numerous bars or cafes in Barcelona before going to a club. Be aware that bars generally close at 3:00 am. It also does not make any sense to go to a club in Barcelona before 12:00 pm. Or why not spend time on the beach during the evening? Enjoy the relaxed atmosphere while drinking a cold beer on the -still crowded- but much cooler beach of Barcelona during summer nights.
The Gran Teatre del Liceu, adverse to added opera houses, was congenital with clandestine contributions instead of authoritative funds.
It opened on April 4th 1847, with a assorted affairs of symphonic pieces, operas and plays. On January 31st 1994 a blaze already afresh engulfed the Grand Liceu theatre.
As in 1861, back it was set on blaze for the aboriginal time, alone the antechamber and the ambit accomplished remained intact. The acknowledgment from the bounded governments and citizenry as a accomplished was abrupt and to the point: there was a charge to clean it on the aforementioned armpit as anon as possible. The new theatre was reopened in October 1999.
Barcelona. Teatre del Liceu, Gran Ópera.
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This is the alone building in Europe adherent alone to Pre-Columbian cultures. Housed in a gothic palace, its accumulating is one of the finest of its affectionate and gives visitors an acumen into the affluent apple of the ancient cultures on the American continent. This tiny, intimist building contains some one hundred pieces, including copse and bean sculptures, ceramics, tapestries, jade, an archaeological ensemble generally begin in all-embracing exhibitions and authority publications. The accumulating is structured about the animal groups which inhabited the area amid Mesoamerica and South America afore the accession of the Spanish. The cultures represented accommodate the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Chavin, Mochica and Inca civilisations.
The Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Sant Pere, La Ribera, La Ciutadella and Barceloneta
Address: Sant Francesc de Paula 2, Barcelona, Spain.
Phone: 93/268-1000
Palau de la Música Catalana One of the world’s best amazing music halls, with facades that are a anarchism of blush and form, the Palau de la Música (Music Palace) is a Barcelona landmark. From its checkered bowl admission windows on the Carrer de Sant Pere Més Alt ancillary to its aerial busts of (from larboard to right) Palestrina, Bach, Beethoven, and (around the bend on Carrer Amadeus Vives) Wagner, the Palau is a baroque bout de force. Designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner in 1908, it is today advised the flagship of Barcelona’s Moderniste architecture. If you can’t appear a concert, booty a bout of the hall, offered circadian at 10:30, 2, and 3 (in English) for 700 ptas./EUR4.21. Admission office: (just off Via Laietana, about a bend from the anteroom itself).