One can tour Barcelona on foot from its Roman ruins and medieval city to the modernist Catalán quarters. Barcelona is known as the capital of Modernism, the city in which the architect Antoni Gaudà lived and worked. His most representative work, the temple of the Sagrada Familia, was left unfinished. Other famous works are the Güell Park, the Milà House, also called "La Pedrera" and the Batlló House.
The most commercial area of the city is in its historic centre: Portaferrissa, Pelai, Rambla, Portal de Angel and Catañuña Square, where small shops mix with department stores and franchises of large clothes chain stores. A little further north of Cataluña Square, in the Paseo de Gracia, the Rambla de Catalunya and the Avenida Diagonal. These sell international designer labels, leather goods and jewellery.
Las Ramblas walk which runs between Cataluña Square and the old port is lined with newspaper kiosks, flowers, street actors, cafés, restaurants and shops. Las Ramblas walk ends at la Barceloneta, the port with the famous statue of Christopher Columbus. Hundreds of luxurious yachts dock in its harbor.
Barcelona also has large parks. The Güell Park, designed by Antonio Gaudà is located in the district of Gracia, the Montjuïc Park on the mountain of the same name, and the Ciudadela Park located in the centre of the city. As for mountains, there is Montjuïc is a small mountain situated beside the port and there is an old military fort on its summit. Another spot for panoramic views over Barcelona is from the "Tibidabo" mountain.
Report by the Mole
