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History
FC Barcelona was founded at 29 November 1899 by the Swiss Johan Joan Gamper. The first year mainly Swiss and English soccer players played in the team. Around 1920 was the most successful period for Barça. Different prices where won in that period.
The arrival of Rinus Michels, Johan Cruijff and Johan Neeskens in the 70´s were a big success for FC Barcelona, with as highlight the landtitle in 1975. The 80´s were mixed, but when Johan Cruijff returned in 1988 as coach, the most successful period of the history began. Led by Cruijff, the famous dream team won 4 land titles and the Europacup I. The Englishman Bobby Robson and the third Dutch coach Louis van Gaal kept FC Barcelona successful.
After a downturn at the begin of the 21st century, it was in 2005 again a Dutch man, Frank Rijnaard, who led Barça to further success. This leaded the team to the land title and the Supercopa de España. Frank Rijnaard was replaced by Josep Guardiola after season 2006/07 and 2007/08 were bad seasons. Guardiola led the club to the national dubbel (land title and Copa del Rey) and the Champions League in 2009, later that year followed by the Supercopa, the UEFA Supercup and the world cup for club teams.

Logo
The clublogo of FC Barcelona, also called as escudo, has changed a lot these past years. But in 1913 FC Barcelona got their own logo. The logo contains the Olla, with 3 surfaces and a middle lane.
• The Olla was designed by Joan Gamper, founder of the club, referring as a eating pot of construction workers. This eating pot was the central point during lunch and stood for unity, fun and cosiness. Gamper thought FC Barcelona should fulfil a similar role within society. The points left and right on the logo are grips, the lowest point is fire underneath the eating pot and the waves on top is the boiling substance.
• The surface left on top is a red cross with a white background, the sign of Sant Jordi, the protector of Catalunya.
• The surface right on top shows the pattern of the senyera, the flag of the old kingdom Aragón and the old county Barcelona: 4 red bands with a yellow background.
• The lower surface shows the colours of FC Barcelona, blue and red, with a beige football in the middle referring the most important sport in the club.
• The middle lane shows the lettres ´FCB´, referring to the club´s name. The middle lane has made most of the changes over the years.

Camp nou
Camp Nou is the biggest stadium of Europe. The soccer temple can accommodate up to 98.787 people. When the renovation has ended in 2012, the home of FC Barcelona will be one of the three biggest stadiums of the world.
It is possible for outsiders to see Camp Nou inside and out through the tour. The audio guide system gives you a tour through Camp Nou and the museum in your own paste, so you don´t miss a thing(Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian, German and Dutch audio guide).

Opening hours
- Monday till Saturday(4 april -9 oktober) from 10.00 till 20.00. Camp nou tour closes an hour before the closing time of the museum. The rest of the year the opening hours are from 10.00 till 18.30.
- Sunday and holidays from 10.00 till 14.30

Price
This famous stadium is worth a visit.
Adults €22,-
Youth(6-13) €16,40

Big J´s Burger
Decorated with a style from the 50´s. Great American hamburgers of your choice, with fries and a milkshake. There are two locations.
Address: Carrer del Carme 74
Metro : PLaça Catalunya
Address: Carrer d´Aribau 18
Metro: Universitat

Cerverecia Jazz
The hamburgers of Cerveceria Jazz have been declared the best by the cultural magazine Barcelonés(because the special jazzsauce?). Be early, there is not a lot of room.
Address: Carrer de Margarit 43
Metro: Poble Sec

Pim Pam Burger
A lot of locals come here to eat, according to them, the best burgers of the city.
Address: Carrer de Rec 18
Metro: Jaume1

Betty Ford´s Bar
Totally American with the best sauces. It is not only very good, but also very hip. After dinner you can hang out and chill with hip audience. A menu costs around 10 euro.
Address: Carrer de Joaquín Costa 56
Metro: Universitat

Bacoa
Home made fries and nice burgers. Good bread, nice sauces, original combinations and good meat. A perfect combination in this cozy place Bacoa.
Address: Carrer de Colomines 2
Metro: Jaume

Hard Rock Café
A real American burger. Great atmosphere in this famous café/museum.
Address: Plaça Catalunya 21
Metro: Urquinaona

Aire de Barcelona, spa in Barcelona in the Borne neighborhood invites you to take some time for yourself and your mind, body and soul to relax. With swimming pools, steam rooms, therapeutic showers and a private reflexologist, they have all facilities and services to you all to calm down and an oasis of serenity for you to create, away from the busy streets of Barcelona.
Aire de Barcelona brings you one step closer to nirvana and provides a quiet room where you lose your stress, your skin can rejuvenate itself, and where you can see yourself in your own thoughts.

The bath consists of several rooms, which are made from the old ramparts of the city, and has 6 different Arab baths and 4 swimming pools with temperatures ranging from 16 degrees to 40 degrees. It is a treat for the senses, and the smell of flowers and exotic spices fills the air while diving in turquoise salt bath for an invigorating aromatherapy session that you will never forget.
For more than eight centuries, the Arabs had control over the Iberian Peninsula, and have the tradition of the Hamman taken with them, based on the Roman bathhouses. This antique baths are now completely renovated and again in Barcelona provides the perfect place for your total disconnect from the modern world.

Hours
Every Thursday during the months of July and August, the baths also have a session from 24:00 – 2:00.
Open daily (except 25 December and 1 January)

address
Paseo Picasso n º 22
(Borne Quarter)
08003 Barcelona

How to get there
Metro: Arc de Triomphe
Metro: Jaume I
Buses: 39, 414, 42 stop: Arc de Triomphe

Notes
Strict dress code: Due to the guests of the opposite sex guests will be asked their swimsuits at all times to have. Swimwear can be rented at the baths themselves. Slippers, towels, locker use is included in the price

The museum is located on the Monjuïc hill, in the Palau Nacional. The Palau Nacional was built in 1929 for the World´s Fair. The goal was that MNAC would be the main building of the International Exhibition of Barcelona in 1929 showing more than 5.000 spanish works. The museum was declared as a national museum in 1990 by the Catalonian Museum Law. The building has an area of 32.000 m² and is inspired by the Spanish Renaissance.

MNAC opened in 1995 with the Romanesque art section. The Gothic art section was opened in 1997 and the Renaissance, Baroque, 19th century and 20th century collections opened in 2000. The official opening with all the collections completed took place in 2004 with the kings op Spain.

Since 2004, the MNAC accommodates works of the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. The works were first exposed in the Monastery of Pedralbes, but they moved them to MNAC for the public.

The sections are:

- Romanesque art
- Gothic art
- Renaissance and Baroque art
- Modern art
- Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
- Department of Drawings and Prints
- Numismatics collection

Opening hours
Tuesday to Saturday: 10 am to 7 pm
Sunday/public holidays:10 am to 2.30 pm
Monday: closed

Price:
General ticket: €10 (valid for two days)
First Sunday of the mont: Free
MNAC + Poble Espanol: €15

How to get there
Metro: L1 and L3 (Pl. Espanya)
Bus: Bus Parc de Montjuïc (Av. de Maria Cristina-MNAC)
50 (Av. De l’Estadi/Piscines Picornell)
13 (Av. Marquès de Comillas/Poble Espanyol)
55 (Museu MNAC/Museu Etnològic)
Up to Pl. d’Espanya 9, 27, 30, 37, 56,57, 65, 79, 109, 157, 165

Address
Palau Nacional
Parc de Montjuïc
08038 Barcelona

History
The Paris banker Pau Gil was an original Catalan and after his dead he left a large sum money in his will for the construction of a hospital in his original city, to be named in honour of his patron saint.
Constructions began in 1901, and in 1911 there were already 8 blocks of the complex in use. In 1913 brought Lluís his son Pere Doménech i Roura to the project. Father and son worked together on the hospital until Lluís Domènech i Montaner´s death in 1923, he was 73 years old. The construction continued until 1930 led by his son, Pere Doménech i Roura. The hospital is the largest complex in Modernist style. The architect planned to create 48 individual buildings in a square. Outside the hospital is the church, which is also part of the hospital complex. Its floral decoration and use of sculptures by the best artists of the period emphasize in a remarkable way the structure of the buildings.

For Doménech i Montaner it was essential to be able to give sick people a feeling of well-being and beauty,according to him beauty has therapeutic value. After almost a century of existence and uninterrupted public use, the Hospital de Sant Pau has international respect from both the medical, architectural and artistic points of view.

The Hospital de Sant Pau is equally dared in its design and decoration, while at the same time the building was perfectly suited to the needs of the sick.

It was a fully functioning hospital until June 2009, it is currently undergoing restoration to build a museum and cultural center. There are still tours of the hospital being given several times a day.

Times
-The information desk is opened from Monday to Sunday, from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm.
-Guided visits are available from Monday to Sunday, in the following languages and times:
Catalan, at 12.30 pm
Spanish, at 11.30 am
English, at 10 am, 11 am, 12 noon and 1 pm
French, at 10.30 am

Address
Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 167
08025 Barcelona
Spain

La Roca Village lies at a road between Barcelona and Costa Brava. It is inspired by a traditional Catalan town with colourful sculptures and balconies decorated with flowers. The boutiques however are designed in a modern style, with world famous and local brands with discounts until 60%!

More than 100 boutiques with brands like Burberry, Calvin Klein Jeans, Camper, Desigual, Diesel, Custo Barcelona, Guess, G-Star Raw, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger, Superdry, Swarovski and many more. The staff is happy to help you in different languages. And between the shops are nice terraces where you can relax and enjoy the sun, the great atmosphere or a lunch. Don´t miss a day of serious shopping in La Roca Village!

Openinghours:
- Monday till Saturday : 10.00-21.00
- Sunday : closed

How to get there
- From the centre of Barcelona leaves a bus daily. Pick up at Carrer Casp 34 :
9.00, 11.00, 13.00, 16.00, 18.00.
From La Roca Village back to the centre:
12.00, 15.00, 17.00, 21.00.
Cost:
Round trip = €12,-
One way = €7,-

- With public transport from station Fabra i Puig you can be there in 50 minutes. From Monday to Friday the bus leaves at:
Barcelona to La Roca Village:
9.00, 12.00, 16.00, 20.00
La Roca Village to Barcelona:
11.11, 15.10, 19.10

- Taxi

Address
La Roca Village
08430 Santa Agnès de Malanyanes
(La Roca del Vallès)
Barcelona

This is all about the ultimate luxury of spending less for something you really want.

Other cities:
- London – Bicester Village
- Dublin – Kildare Village
- Paris – La Vallée Village
- Madrid – Las Rozas Village
- Milan – Fidenza Village
- Brussel – Maasmechelen Village
- Frankfurt- Wertheim Village
- Munich – Ingolstadt Village

There is an amusement park on top of the hill, a telecommunications tower(Torre de Collserola) and a church; the Temple de Sagrat Cor.

Amusement park
The Amusement park was build in 1889, and is the oldest in Barcelona. The park still has most of the original rides, some of them go back until the 20th century. The park was seen in the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Prices:
adults – €25.20
children below 120cm in height – €9.00 and
children below 90cm – free

Church
Temple de Sagrat Cor means Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and it was build in 1902.The construction took over 60 years to complete and in 1961 the church was finished. The building is the work of the Spanish Catalan architect Enric Sagnier and was completed by his son Josep Maria Sagnier i Vidal.The top is a sculpture of the Sacred Heart by Josep Miret Llopart.

The complex consists of a crypt and church with a central sole with a dome on eight columns. The whole style is based on a Romanesque line.
The building is square, from which arise three apses, and presents a large central tower and four low, defining the four corners of the square, in which were placed statues of the Twelve Apostles, of Josep Miret. The main facade has three bodies, the central wider, chaired by the figure of the Archangel Michael in the arch of the main entrance, and John Bosco in the above pediment. Above the left door is the statue of Teresa of Ávila and on the right, Marguerite Marie Alacoque.

Transport
Tibidabo can be reached by a funicular railway, by bus, and by car. The railway, built in 1901, was the first of its kind in Spain.

- Train: Brown Line, L7(not a metro but a train, follow Renfe). Get out at Avenida Tibidabo.

- Tram
Single Journey: €2.80
Return Journey: €4.00 (if you have a ticket for the Barcelona Bus Turistic tourist bus the return journey is free)
Twenty Journey Travelcard: €23.00
During the Summer Months the trams run every day.
Ascent- 10:00 – 20:05
Descent- 10:00 – 20:05

- Tibidabo Tram
Tramvia Blau – Linea 194 TMB (Plaza de John Kennedy)
Avenida Tibidabo, 2 to Plaça Doctor Andreu 08022

Since the first stone in 1882, the church is still not complete. Estimated is that the church will be ready in 2026-2028. The process of the church depends of the amount of money the visitors bring into the church. The construction budget for 2009 was €18 million. In the beginning only two people worked on the Sagrada Família, now there are more than one hundred people involved, including fifteen Architects.

History
Francisco de Paula del Villar designed the church for free. He designed it in the then prevailing neo-Gothic style. Fransisco began the construction of the crypt in 1882, but after a disagreement he was fired. From here on Gaudí took over. Gaudí finished the crypt under the original designs of Fransesco, but after he followed his own ideas. Gaudí has designed many beautiful buildings like Casa Milá, Casa Batllo and Park Guell but the Sagrada Família is his absolute masterpiece. It was also his last work. Gaudí devoted the last years of his life to the church. In 1926 Gaudí was hit by a tram, and died some days later. He was buried in the crypt of the Sagrada Familia.

Style
The style of the church is variously likened to Spanish Late Gothic, Catalan Modernism and to Art Nouveau or Catalan Noucentisme. While the Sagrada Família falls within the Art Nouveau period. Gaudí carried the Art Nouveau style far beyond its usual application as a surface decoration.

The church will have three facades that each represent a stage of the life of Jesus; the facade of the birth, the facade of suffering and the front is the façade of the glory, each with four bell towers.
The church is just a few meters below the Montjuïc, the highest hill in Barcelona. Gaudi did this out of respect for The Creator: he does not want to exceed with his building in height.

Visitors can access the Nave, Crypt, Museum, Shop, and the Passion and Nativity towers. Discover la Sagrada Familia yourself!

Price
Adult €13
+ audioguide €17
+ Guided €17
<18, retired €11
+ Audioguide €14
+ Guided €15

Times
- October to March, 9.00 to 18.00 h
- April to September, 9.00 to 20.00 h

Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí i Cornet was born on June 25 1852. Some historians say that he was born in “Mas de la Calderera,” his family’s country home almost exactly halfway between Reus and Riudoms. Others say he was born in Reus. Most of Gaudí’s identification documents from both his student and professional years gave Reus as his birthplace. But nobody knows for sure.

Gaudí spent his childhood between Reus, where his parents had their business, in a small cottage owned by his mother known as Mas de la Calderera – the Boilermaker’s house. Frequent contact with nature may have been one of the factors that stimulated two of the abilities which were to become crucial in the development of his work: the observation and analysis of the natural world.

Antoni Gaudí was a pupil at the Piarist School in Reus, where he stood out on account of his gift for analysing and rationalising questions.
A short time afterwards, he moved to Barcelona to study the final year of his secondary education and to do the foundation course at the School of Architecture.

The year 1878 marked the beginning of Gaudí’s intense professional activity. During that year he won a competition organised by the Barcelona City Council for his design and production of some street lamps (located in two squares, Plaça Reial and Pla de Palau).

In 1878 Gaudí met Eusebi Güell, the one who should later become his greatest promoter and good friend for over 40 years. For him he designed the Güell Estate, the Güell Palace, Park Güell and many other projects.

Between 1883 and 1888 he constructed the Casa Vicens and from there on he designed not only El Capricho, Bishop´s Palace and Rosary of Monserat but much more buildings.
In 1904 Gaudí worked on Casa Battló and the next project was Casa Milá in 1906. From 1915 Gaudí devoted himself almost exclusively to his masterpiece: the Sagrada Familia. In his last years he even lived on the workplace. Gaudí used highly symbolic content in the Sagrada Família, both in architecture and sculpture, dedicating each part of the church to a religious theme.

On 7 June 1926, Gaudí was taking his daily walk to the Sant Felip Neri church for his habitual prayer and confession when he was hit by a tram and lost consciousness. Because of his lack of identity documents and shabby clothing nobody recognized or helped him. Eventually a police officer took him to a hospital for the poor, the Hospital de la Santa Creu, where he died on 10 June 1926 at the age of 73. Two days later he was buried in the crypt of the Sagrada Familia.

Much of Gaudí’s work was marked by his four life passions: architecture, nature, religion and love for Catalonia. Gaudí studied every detail of his creations, integrating into his architecture a series of crafts in which he was skilled: ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and carpentry. He introduced new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadís, made of waste ceramic pieces. He will be remembered for years.