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The Barrio Gotico Barcelona is the historic center of the city of Barcelona.  It is composed of small typical streets where you can walk for your holidays in Barcelona apartment without any problem because the Gothic district is a pedestrian area.

To spend your Barcelona holidays, we advise you to book a Barcelona apartment in the Barrio Gotico because you will be 10 minutes by walk from Plaça Catalunya and 10 minutes away from Barcelona beaches. You can even find a cheap Barcelona apartment in the Barrio Gotico Barcelona.

A lot of touristic sites are in the Barrio Gotico Barcelona as the church Santa Maria del Mar, the Picasso museum, the Plaça Jaume, the Plaza Reial. Thus, stay in Barcelona accommodation in the Barrio Gotico can save you a lot of time. For architecture lovers, the old buildings and streets will make you happy in the barrio Gotico Barcelona.

You will find in the Barrio Gotico Barcelona all what you need for your Barcelona holidays, restaurants, shops, supermarkets. On the Paseo del Borne you will even find a shop open late the evenings to do your shopping after a day of visits and prepare a good dinner in your Barcelona apartment.

If you prefer go out from your Barcelona apartment, there are several restaurants, tapas bars where you can eat the traditional tapas.

The best restaurant Barcelona for burgers and fast food is in the Barrio Gotico Barcelona. It is the Pim Pam Plats Barcelona or Pim Pam Burger where everything is home made. Dishes are done in front of you and are delicious.

If you want just a snack, stop at a terrace in one of the bars of the Barrio Gotico Barcelona and eat an artisanal ice cream or a chocolate waffle in terrace.

The Barrio Gotico Barcelona is close to the sea, you can go out from your Barcelona apartment in the evening for a walk on the Vell Port Barcelona and go in a typical bars of the Carrer Sant Carles to be mixed with Catalan and Spanish people and drink cheap and good beer or you can go for all the day to Barceloneta and picknick on the beach.

The metro stop of the Barrio Gotico Barcelona is Jaume I on the green line. Thus you can visit the Barrio Gotico and the touristic sites of Barcelona.

Everything is made in the Barrio Gotico Barcelona to let you spend wonderful holidays in Barcelona accommodation.

  The Chocolate museum Barcelona has at one's disposal 600 m² in the city center of Barcelona which will delight the gourmands for their Barcelona holidays in Barcelona apartment.

The gourmands visitors will taste the sweetness of the chocolate for their Barcelona holidays.

The chocolate museum Barcelona also called Museu de la Xocolatain catalán or Museo del Chocolate in spanish is the first in Catalunya. It was open in 2000 and can reach until 92 000 visitors by yeat like in 2007. He was created by the regional pastry corporation of Barcelona which wanted to propose something new, an innovative museum.

The chocolate museum Barcelona that you can visit for a walk in the gothic district, the Barrio Gotico tries to become international thanks to its expositions and the high number of activities proposed.

If you like chocolate, it is the place for you for your Barcelona holidays. The chocolate museum Barcelona proposes workshops for children.

The workshops of the chocolate museum are the following:

The chocolate artists: This activity is proposed for children from 4 to 12 years old. It costs 6.85 euro for one hour activity. The aim of the animation is to create a figurine in chocolate helped by chocolate professionals.

The discover way of the cacao: The children from 6 to 12 will discover for 7.5 euros through games the evolution and history of the chocolate for one hour.

The Fabulous history of the deesse Xispeta of the Cacao : For the children from 3 to 6 years, a visit through theater and stories enable to enter in the chocolate world for 6.85 euros.

Do not miss the chocolate sculptures for your holidays in Barcelona apartment: you will find fictive personage, monuments from Lucky Luck, the Camp Nou, Asterix, Bob the sponge to the salamander fountain of the Park Guell.

You can also do the guided tour of the chocolate museum Barcelona to discover the origine of the museum, the fabrication of the chocolate and to taste the best chocolates of Barcelona for your holidays in Barcelona apartment.

If you come to the chocolate museum Barcelona, walk in the small streets of the Barrio Gotico. To enjoy both the chocolate museum and the Si vous venez au musee du chocolat, balladez-vous dans les petites ruelles du Barrio Gotico, we our advice is to book now a Barcelona apartment in the Barrio Gotico.

Opening hours

Monday - Saturday:10am to 7 pm

Sunday: 10am to 3pm

Price of the chocolate museum Barcelona:

ticket: 4,30 €

group ticket : 3,50 €

Adress of the chocolate museum Barcelona - Museu de la Xocolata

Adresse :

Plaça Pons I Clerch, S/N

08003 Barcelona

Phone number Chocolate museum Barcelona:

              932 687 878       

The Maraton Barcelona 2011 will take place the 6th of March at 8.30 a.m. Avenue Maria Cristina. The first runner will do the course of 42 km in less than 3 hours and will arrive approximately at 10.40 a.m.  The course is urban. The maraton Barcelona 2011 is open to people from 18 years old and without limit of age.

For those who want to participate or encourage runners for the Maraton Barcelona 2011, book an apartment Barcelona is advised. Indeed for the Maraton Barcelona 2011, people come from all around the world. If you want to stay close to the course and have a confortable place to sleep, think to book early your apartment Barcelona. You can book easily with BarcelonaPoint. You can even find a selection of apartments for the Maraton Barcelona 2011 to facilitate your choice of apartment Barcelona.

The Maraton Barcelona 2011 is green this year. Several actions will be organized to manage the impact of the marathon Barcelona 2011 on the city. A selective collection of garbage and clothes will be done and conferences on sustainable development will take place for the Marathon Barcelona 2011.

You can registrer to the Maraton Barcelona 2011 for 70 euros until the 20th of February if it is not done yet. With 12 211 participants last year, the Maraton Barcelona 2011 becomes really famous in Europe. The number of participants and spectators increases each year. The winner of the Maraton Barcelona 2010 was Jackson Kotut from Kenya.

The course goes in all the most popular and beautiful places of Barcelona: the famous Camp Nou stadium, the Ramblas, the Passeig de Gracia, the place Catalunya, the place Espanya, the Sagrada Familia and all the other famous monuments of the city of Barcelona. Thus, you need an apartment Barcelona in the centre to enjoy your week end in Spain. For the runners, an apartment Barcelona in the city centre will be more convenient, the runners will be able to practice the course in real and even for spectators, an apartment Barcelona in the centre is still very convenient.

For spectators, there will be animations and events all the day for the Maraton Barcelona 2011. Twelve points of animations will propose different activities to encourage the participants of the Maraton Barcelona 2011.

So hurry up to book your apartment Barcelona and come to encourage your favorite athletes.

If you want to see the Spain and its architecture but in one shot, el Poble Espanyol is a place where you have to go. You don't have time to visit the all Spain, come to spend your holiday in Barcelona because El Poble Espanyol, the Spanish village is in Barcelona. Book now your accommodation Barcelona to visit a synthesis of all the Spanish architecture.

To save more time, you can book your apartment Barcelona close to the Poble Espanyol. An apartment Barcelona close to the Poble Espanyol is a convenient location because it is close to the center and it is a good area to stay in Barcelona.

First built for the international exhibition of 1929, the Spanish village in the city of Barcelona of 49,000 square meters had to represent all the architecture of the Iberian Peninsula. It had to serve as an artisanal show window of Spain with its 117 buildings, cities and squares reproduce at the scale. But the village weirdly had an expiration date, the date of the end of the universal exposition.

The four architects Ramon Reventós, Francesc Folguera, Xavier Nogués et Miquel Utrillo did several trips and collected a lot of pictures from more than 1600 cities and villages of Spain to be able to do the synthesis of the Spanish architecture.

The Poble Espanyol Barcelona was so successful that people protested against the destruction of the spanish village. Thus, el Poble Espanyol is still alive. It represents the architecture of all the diferent regions of Spain, it is the opportunity to see all the Spanish architecture for your spanish holiday in Barcelona.

What you can do in the Poble Espanyol:

The spanish village built on the collines of Montjuïc offers an incredible experience. Many artisans are there to show you their arts, pottery, textil, leather, jewellery. It is a great place of shopping. The fondation Fran Daurel which is in the Poble Espanyol proposes an important collection of art (Picasso, Dali...)

You could walk free in the Poble Espanyol, discover the spanish architecture, the artisans, you will also find a lot of restaurants.

El Poble Espanyol is also a place to be for night life, it is open until 4 a.m. on Friday and 5 a.m. on Saturday.

Price of the entrance for the spanish village:

The ticket costs 8,90 euros for adults, 5,60 euros for children (<12 ans)

The night ticket costs 5,50 euros.

How get to the Poble Espanyol:

- By metro: ligne 1 and ligne 3, Espanya stop

- By bus: lignes 13, 50 and 61

No doubt, you will enjoy the spanish village for your Barcelona holiday.