Visiting Barcelona

If you will soon be visiting Barcelona you can get the insider's view on the city, the restaurants, culture, how to get around and how to save money.

In this website you will find, amongst other things, maps, photos, tourist spots and restaurants. Barcelona is fast becoming an expensive city with the strength of the Euro making it even more costly for visitors. Find out how to save money in Barcelona. You may even want to use a few basic words and phrases in Spanish or Catalan so you can be understood in bars or restaurants. This website also provides a free 24-page downloadable printable Barcelona city guide. Why spend money on something you will only need for a week or so?

Living in Barcelona

If you are thinking of living in Barcelona and are daunted by the prospect of moving to a country where you may not have a job, know the language or understand the legal matters of registering as a resident then luckily help is at hand. This website contains helpful advice from people that have made the move and are now settled in Barcelona. The obvious reasons to move to Barcelona are the weather (especially if you are coming from northern Europe) and the lifestyle. This site also includes steps to take and general advice for moving to Barcelona, information on money saving tips, city maps, language tips and advice for finding a job in Barcelona.

Top tourist spots

There is so much to see in this city that you might wonder where to start. Here is a helpful list of the most popular tourist spots in Barcelona, and included in the list some of the best free ones. The city is best known for the Gaudí architecture and there are plenty of his eye-catching buildings and statues to be seen. Barcelona is also well know for Las Ramblas, the bustling street where street performers and human statues can be seen.

And yet there is still so much more to this city. There is the Gothic Area, the port, the beach, the shopping, the museums and art galleries, and perhaps best of all, the night life.

Barcelona maps

Barcelona is such a condensed city that you can virtually fit a map of the entire city on one piece of paper. That said, with so many small streets to fit in some tourist guide maps can be difficult to read and follow. Our Barcelona maps page provides free pdf maps, including a novel credit card size map of the centre as well as a simplified larger map of the city with photos and locations of tourist spots as well as the metro stations.