BARCELONA

Barcelona is one of my favorite European cities and that's why I went there twice. First of all it is beautiful as a city and then it has a party atmosphere that few cities have. I stayed in a small hotel on a side street of the Ramblas (famous central pedestrian avenue with many shops, bars and also beautiful buildings). The problem was that I couldn't sleep because there was noise in the street all night even though it was a side street. I visited the main attractions of Barcelona including the famous Sagrada Familia cathedral which was still under construction and was recently finished. Work of the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudì who left other famous works such as the beautiful Park Guell, Casa Batlò, Casa Milà. Its peculiarity is the use of different materials, including rough ones, and the colorful colours. The Batlò house disputes the Apple of Discord with two other nearby houses as the three rich owners each hired a great architect to have the most beautiful and richest house. Another absolute beauty is the Liceu theater with its interior and stained glass roof. Then in Barcelona you have to see Barceloneta, the beach built at the time of the 1992 Olympics by demolishing old structures of the port, next to two buildings that hosted the athletes. On the Montjuic hill there is the Olympic stadium and then the enormous national palace, museum of Catalonia, but also a park with various attractions such as el Poble Espanol an open-air museum, the magic fountain with evening light show. All these works, renovated in 1992 for the Olympics, had already been present since 1929 when Barcelona hosted the Universal Exhibition. At the top of Montjuic there is a castle that can also be reached by cable car from the port. Finally, another treasure of Barcelona is the Gothic Quarter, the most impressive medieval district in Europe with narrow streets that host bars, restaurants and cafes which are very popular in the evening as well as the La Seu cathedral, the Placa Reaial which borders the Ramblas and is a meeting point and to the Picasso museum and Placa del Rei with the royal palace. At the end of the Ramblas there is the Port Vell with the monument to Christopher Columbus, the Rambla del Mar with Maremagnum, a famous shopping center which also hosts nightclubs and the Barcelona aquarium. Finally, it is the city of Barcelona, ​​a well-known football team that has won several Spanish champions, winning five European Cups and various other titles I hope I remembered everything.

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