Discover Spain - Las Ramblas - Barcelona

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Exactly 1,200 meters of tree-lined promenade where at one time or another, almost obligatorily, all those who have come to visit Barcelona pass. Las Ramblas was born with the beginning of modernity, when in 1766 was traced the promenade following the medieval wall that covered this part of Barcelona since the 13th century. Barcelona adopted it immediately. In Barcelona, ​​a city with narrow and winding streets, las Ramblas was the only space available for recreation and the walk of all the inhabitants; all because, because it was located in the center of the city, it has become a meeting place for all social classes.

Gradually, local leisure and culture found their place on Las Ramblas. The convents have disappeared and florists and newsstands have settled there. Today, we receive on our way buildings as remarkable as the Gran Teatre del Liceu, that is to say the Barcelona Opera, the Palau de la Virreina and the large covered market of Las Boqueria. The human torrent, with its traveling artists, its tourists and the Barcelonans who still walk there, makes it possible to make a trip in the microcosm of contemporary Barcelona.

When Las Ramblas reaches the port, we discover the Mirador de Colom, a unique opportunity to admire from the height this artery passers-by, green and unequaled.

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