Posts Tagged ‘landmarks barcelona’

AGBAR: Barcelona’s amusingly-shaped colourful tower!

AGBAR: Barcelona’s amusingly-shaped colourful tower!

The Torre Agbar measures 145 meters and has 34 floors, plus four subterranean floors, so it has become the third highest building of Barcelona, after the luxurious Hotel Arts and the Torre Mapfre (an insurance enterprise). The Agbar Tower belongs to the investment group Azurelan, who acquired it in 2007. The principal tenant of the [...]

Culture, Places February 23, 2010 5:02 pm 0 Comments

An Amazing Avenue: Las Ramblas!

An Amazing Avenue: Las Ramblas!

Who has never heard of Las Ramblas? Exactly. Nobody. This 1,2 kilometer-long, leafy, wide boulevard connects Plaça Catalunya to the Christopher Columbus monument down by Barcelona’s port. It has been described by Garcia Lorca as the “the only street in the world which I wish would never end”; and it witnesses over 100 million people [...]

Culture, Places February 16, 2010 4:29 pm 0 Comments

Awe-inspiring: The Sagrada Familia

Awe-inspiring: The Sagrada Familia

Barcelona disposes of a rich architectonic heritage, and the most well-loved of Modernist symbols is the “Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia” (in English, Expiatory Church of the Holy Family). It is also known as “The Cathedral of the poor”, due to the homonymous picture of the modernist painter Joaquim Mur. It features a big [...]

Art, Culture, Places February 9, 2010 2:52 pm 2 Comments