Barcelona Beaches

Barcelona Beaches

Barcelona Beaches

For sun worshippers, Barcelona is just what you’re looking for! It’s coastline stretches for 4.5km and offers the tourists a wide variety of excellent beaches. The most popular beaches among our visitors include Barceloneta, Mar Bella, Nova Icaria and Bogatell.

Barceloneta is probably the closest beach to the city and the easiest way to get to this beach is by catching the yellow line metro. Walking from the city takes about 20 minutes. Barceloneta is a wide long beach full of restaurants, which are mostly American style and bars.

The Nova Icaria beach is quite close to the Olympic Marina and is full with fantastic beachside bars and restaurants. If you are visiting this beach, make sure the sample the cuisine in Mango and Chiringuito restaurants.

Barcelona Beaches

Mar Bella Beach is a must for those you like watersports. Here you’ll enjoy the windsurfing, kayaks and hobie cats. Bogatell Beach is actually twice the size of Nova Icaria and is a haven for rollerbladers, cyclists and joggers. This is a more tranquil area and does not have a lot of bars and restaurants.

All the Barcelona beaches are kitted out people with disabilities, sun beds and lifeguards and all the beaches are well maintained.

Barcelona Beaches

Sant Sebastiá
Considered as being the last stretch of the beach of La Barceloneta. There are all types of facilities: showers, lifeguards, bars, as well as good disabled access.
Length : 1.100 m
Average width : 81 m
Limits : From the port estuary to Carrer Almirall Cervera
Transport :
Bus: 14, 16, 17, 39, 40, 45, 51, 57, 59, 64, 157
Metro: Line 4 - Barceloneta



La Mar Bella
 
Located between the beaches of Nova Mar Bella and Bogatell. There is a sports centre very near the beach. The Promenade stretches as far as the beach of la Barceloneta. Good for windsurfing on windy days. The Mar Bella beach has a designated nudist beach area screened by a long hillock of bamboo and is mostly frequented by young people.
Length : 500 m
Average width : 42 m
Limits : From the Mar Bella breakwater to the Bac de Roda breakwater
Transport :
Bus: 36, 71, 141
Metro: Line 4 - Selva de Mar
Tram: T4 - Selva de Mar
Cycle track

Barcelona Beaches

 Playa del Bogatell

This beach is very close to the Olympic Port and is separated from the other two beaches with similar characteristics by two stone breakwaters. It has a lifeguard service, showers, ramps to take you on to the beach, bars, restaurants, parking, etc. The promenade runs until Sant Sebastiá Beach, in the Barceloneta district.
Length : 640 m
Average width : 39 m
Limits : From the Bogatell breakwater to the Mar Bella breakwater
Transport :
Bus: 6, 36, 41, 92, 141
Metro: Line 4 - Poblenou and Llacuna
Cycle track

Playa del Paseo Marítimo or Llevant
 
The beach on the other side of the Olympic Port. Separated from Barceloneta Beach by a breakwater. There is a lifeguard post, table tennis tables, children's playground and a half-pipe for skaters. The beach is very wide and goes right up to the promenade.
Length : 380 m
Average width : 59 m
Limits : From the Selva de Mar breakwater to the future Zoo breakwater
Transport
Bus: 7, 36, 41, 141
Metro: Line 4 - Selva de Mar
Tram: T4 - Selva de Mar and El Maresme
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La Nova Mar Bella

Its promenade runs until the famous district of Barceloneta. This is the women's favourite beach, exceeding 60% of total users. A very good beach with a variety of services, such as showers, lifeguard service, bars and parking. Easy access via ramps.
Length : 500 m
Average width : 45 m
Limits : From the Bac de Roda breakwater to the Selva de Mar breakwater
Transport:
Bus: 36, 43, 141
Metro: Line 4 - Selva de Mar and El Maresme
Tram: T4 - Selva de Mar and El Maresme
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La Nova Icária
 
It is the beach which is next to the Barcelona Olympic Port. The promenade runs until the Barceloneta district. Near the beach there is an esplanade with stone benches for contemplating the landscape. It is considered one of the quietest in the city, frequented mostly by families with children.
Length : 400 m
Average width : 63 m
Limits : From the Olympic Port to the Bogatell breakwater
Transport:
Bus: 6, 36, 41, 92, 141
Metro: Line 4 - Ciutadella y Bogatell
Tram: T4 - Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica
Cycle track

La Barceloneta
 
Stretching out along the entire promenade up to the Olympic port in the renowned and old maritime neighbourhood of the same name. There are all types of services typical to a town beach. This excellent beach has two beaches one at each end: one near the Olympic Port with Paseo Marítimo Beach and the other near the Puerto de Barcelona with San Sebastiá Beach. These beaches have a big team of patrolling lifeguards from the local police, particularly in the summer season. It is a favourite amongst our foreign visitors.
Length : 1.100 m
Average width : 89 m
Limits : From Carrer Almirall Cervera to the Olympic Port
Transport
Bus: 14, 16, 17, 36, 39, 40, 45, 51, 57, 59, 64
Metro: Line 4 - Barceloneta and Ciutadella
Tram: Ciutadella-Vila Olímpica
Cycle track

 Bathing season calendar

The Barcelona beach season usually goes between March 15th and November 15th when all installations and facilities are dismanteled, being the high season from 31st May to 28th September.

Barcelona Beaches

Barcelona, Spain's Second Largest City

Barcelona, Spain's Second Largest City

Barcelona, Spain's Second Largest City

Barcelona, Spain's second largest city, and the 2,000 year-old capital of Catalunya, is a thriving port town with an excellent year-round climate, a cosmopolitan attitude, and enough art, architecture, nightlife and gastronomical delights to satisfy travelers of all ages and budgets. Indeed, if you are planning to travel Spain Barcelona should not be missed.
Barcelona Spain was the seat of a vast Mediterranean empire when Madrid was one-horse outpost on the sweltering Spanish steppe. Since 133 BC, the Romans, Visigoths, Franks and Moors have all, at one time or another, controlled Barcelona. The city grew increasingly more powerful throughout the middle ages. In 1561 the more centrally located city of Madrid became the seat of the Spanish Royal court, though well into the eighteenth-century Barcelona enjoyed special privileges and autonomy in the Catalunyan region.
Though it has a population of over three million, Barcelona Spain feels much smaller and more accessible. For the wandering tourist, Barcelona attractions are easily seen on foot.

Barcelona, Spain's Second Largest City

Barcelona is comprised of four main districts: Ciutat Vella or the Old City, El Barri Gotic or the gothic quarter, La Ribera (the waterfront area), and El Raval, the outskirts southwest of the Rambla. Like Madrid's Gran Via, La Rambla is Barcelona"s main thoroughfare, and among the best Barcelona attractions. La Rambla bisects Barcelona"s Old Town, and is a perfect first stop for tourists looking to familiarize themselves with the city.
After a walk down La Rambla, and a stop at the nearby Boqueria Market, head to the Gothic Quarter to see the Catedral de la Seau. Other Barcelona Attractions include a stop at Antoni Gaudi"s unfinished architectural master piece, the Sagrada Familia. In color and texture this towering cathedral resembles a sand castle that has been smoothed over by a wave, or perhaps a sculpture of ice that is slowly melting away.
After a day trip through downtown, make your way up to Parc Guell. Also designed by Gaudi, this park overlooking downtown Barcelona was originally designed as a residential compound, though only two houses were every built on the site. Nonetheless, the twisted ceramic benches, towering pillars, warped sidewalks and multicolored tiles lend an Alice-in-Wonderland feel to this most original of Barcelona attractions.
After a long day of hoofing across Barcelona, the hungry traveler should look for some authentic Catalan food. The Mediterranean diet of virgin olive oil, seafood, onions, garlic and red wine is as mainstay in Barcelona. Typical entrees include habas a la catalana, a spicy bean stew, and pinacas a la catalana (spinach with pine nuts, raisins and bacon). If you travel to Barcelona, wines are one thing that will temp you again and again. The nearby Penedes region produce an especially tasty local sparkling white wine known as cava—not to be confused with the Fijian liquor of the same name—that is best enjoyed while sitting at a sidewalk café and marveling at all the Barcelona attractions you've seen, and all you have left to explore.

Barcelona, Spain's Second Largest City

Barcelona, Spain's Second Largest City

Barcelona, Spain's Second Largest City

Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain

Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain

Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain

Park Guell was commissioned by Eusebi Güell who wanted to create a stylish park for Barcelona aristocracy.

The Park Guell contains amazing stone structures (see below), stunning tiling and fascinating buildings. You can see from this picture the Gaudi dragon fountain that is at the entrance to Guell park. This dragon is adorned in beautiful coloured tiling and there is something rather hypnotic and magical about it.

Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain

Here you can see a walkway supported by twisting rock pillars that seem to be growing out of the ground like tree trunks. Although these are rather irregular in shape they do feel strangely natural too. Gaudi was strongly influenced by natural shapes and used them in his work.

Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain

At the top of Park Guell is a terraced area where you get a wonderful view of the park and of Barcelona City. Here you will find multi-coloured tiled mosaic seats as shown in this picture. The vibrant colours of the tiles are truly breathtaking.  

Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain

Park Guell also has a small house in the park which Gaudi lived in at one stage. The house has now been converted into a museum and contains interesting furniture also designed by Gaudi.

Park Guell, Barcelona, Spain

Donana National Park

Donana National Park

Donana National Park

The Donana National Park of Spain is well known for its huge diversity of the species of bird that exist here. It is one the largest colony of Spanish imperial Eagles of the world. The national park has the three distinct variety of the ecosystem. They are: The Mariasmas, coastal mobile dunes and the Mediterranean scrublands.
Donana National Park was set up with the collaboration of the Spanish government and the World Wildlife Fund. It was originally opened in the year 1963 to promote the tourism of Spain. It is one of the greatest tourist attractions that are visited by millions of people every year. The entire park is full of natural beauty that the nature has bestowed on this park.  You will be really amazed with its natural sightseeing apart from the wildlife.

Donana National Park

There are different types of rare species that are found in this park which consists of different varieties of Dolphins and fishes. You will also come across several plant species together with the colorful birds. The visitors are astonished over the stunning and attractive animals that are not found anywhere else. The eye catching attractions of this park are the camel that is worth seeing. The other species include the purple heron which are also an attracting attributes for the tourist.
Apart from the vesting the wildlife you can also explore the large forest which is spread in several acres of land. The natural environment gives a soothing feeling to all the visitors who come to visit this park.  There are many other things to enjoy like the nature and the greenery that is spread in an entire Donana National Park .
Therefore it can be a perfect place for the tourist to discover something new and unique.
If you love adventure and wish to enjoy your day then you do camping which is the favorite activity that is done by the tourist. The camping sites consists long area around the park so you have lots of more to explore. When you complete visiting the park then you go for finding the best accommodation for yourself. There are lots of options which can be easily found outside the park.
The best way to reach the park is by hiring the car that can take you directly to the Donana National Park. Therefore the visitors can find the cheap and best viable option for themselves.
Therefore visiting the park can surely be a thrilling experience which you will always cherish.

Donana National Park

Donana National Park

Donana National Park

The Prado Museum

The Prado Museum

The Prado Museum

El Museo del Prado (the Prado Museum) should be at the top of any traveler's to-do list when visiting the Spanish capital of Madrid. With its extensive collection of Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German Renaissance masters, the Prado, along with the Louvre in Paris and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is one of the three most important Renaissance museums in the world.
Completed in 1785 in the Prado (meadow) de los Jeronimos, the Palacio de Villanueva was originally planned as a natural science museum. During Napoleons occupation of Spain, the Palacio, like the Alhambra, was used as a barracks for French cavalry soldiers. It wasn't until the reign of Fernando VII that the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture was created to display Spain's artistic wealth. Five years later, el Museo del Prado opened with a total of 311 Spanish paintings.
Today, the Museo del Prado is the largest art gallery in the world, housing an estimated 8,600 paintings, with no more than half of these on display at any time. The gallery is a combination of royal collections from the Old Trinidad Museum and acquisitions, donations and bequests.
The Collection
The Collection of art in the Museo del Prado constitutes some of the best tourism Spain has to offer. Serious art lovers should leave themselves a day or two in order to really enjoy the museum. If you visit Spain you can see the Prado on the your first day, tour the rest of the country, and then return before you depart from Madrid and look at the works you missed, or those that you just can't get out of your mind. If you visit Spain, you'll want to make sure to spend at least a day at the Prado. The entrance fee is 500pts. The museum is free on Saturday and after 2:30 pm on Sunday. Below is a (very) short list of the must-see artists in the Prado Museum.
Goya
The entire southern wing of the second floor is devoted to the works of Fransisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. The Spaniard captured the extremes of hope and misery during and after the Napoleononic invasion with his works El Dos de Mayo and El Tres de Mayo.
Bosch
Visit room 56A for Hieronymus Bosch's perplexing The Garden of Earthly Delights. It is rumored that Bosch had a painful skin disease, and that the cream used to ease the condition had hallucinatory side effects. A close look at the fantastical Earthly Delights and you wonder not if, but how many, drugs the artist was doing.
The Italians
Though The Prado Museum is primarily a Spanish affair, the Italians are well represented by Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, and Titian.

The Prado Museum

The Prado Museum

The Prado Museum

The Prado Museum

Las Islas Cies beach in Galicia, Spain

Las Islas Cies beach in Galicia, Spain

Las Islas Cies beach in Galicia, Spain 

This has to be one of the best beaches in Europe and what is interesting is that it is one of the few beaches not in the Mediterranean. When most people think of a beach holiday is Spain, the Mediterranean cost usually is the first thing to spring to mind, but Las Islas Cies is on the western coast of Spain.

Delving a little further, you will see that Las Islas Cies beach is not only a fantastic beach, but also very exotic and I guess the best bit is you don't have to travel to a far off destination to get there  

Las Islas Cies beach in Galicia, Spain

Las Islas Cies beach in Galicia, Spain

Las Islas Cies beach in Galicia, Spain

Las Islas Cies beach in Galicia, Spain