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Lifestyle and Cultural Heritage of Barcelona

Written by Mathis Olivier

Topic: TravelPublished December 24, 2011
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Barcelona is the city full of liveliness, traditions and history in the form of festivals, museums, theatres, architecture, beaches, parks and traditional cuisines. This lovely city has everything to entertain tourists and because of this huge variety of activities, large number of visitors from all over the world plan to visit Barcelona every year. The life style and the culture of this city is very vibrant and modern. Catalan is among the famous places of Barcelona because of its special cuisines, theatres, art galleries and above all the famous Gothic work. If you want to visit all these places, you can join any of the tours to get a detailed history of these places by your guide. Museums: Barcelona is the city of museum with almost fifty museums in the city. If you happen to visit any of these museums on the first Monday of any month then the entry is free for all. The most famous museums in the city includes Tapies Foundation, museu Historia de Catalunya, Museu Picasso, museu d’Art de Catalunya. Architecture: Barcelona has rich architectural history and the city has some beautiful places designed by the famous architect Antoni Gaudi. Catalan is the best place to visit the architectural work of Antoni Gaudi and other famous artists like Josep Puig and Lluis Domenech. This place has a great variety of famous monuments which were constructed between the years 1885 to 1950. Festivals: Barcelona is the famous city in Spain which organizes many festivals during the different seasons of the year. All these festivals are worth watching for the beauty of costumes, music and themes. The famous festivals include La Merce in Barcelona. The firework, dance and music with traditional costumes make these festivals very attractive and extra-ordinary for the visitors. Cuisines: Food is something which can help rating any place and Barcelona has excellent rating among the tourists for its traditional and mouth watering food. There are hundreds of restaurants in the city where you can find the food with different specialties like Catalan cuisine is famous to be one of the best foods one can have in Barcelona. All the restaurants are supplied with fresh ingredients from the La Boqueria market which is known to be the best place for fresh food in Europe. Art Galleries: Barcelona is the city of renowned artists like Picasso, Tapies, Dali and location catalogne, so this city has number of art galleries which display the famous art work of all these artists.

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