Barcelona in taxi

As we said here, we recommend to use the metro to visit the city. Nonetheless, you can also use other ways of transport. We are going to tell you a little about how taxis work in the Catalan capital. 

We are offering you two options we found quite good. Both offer 24 hour services and contact.

In this website you can find information in English about how to book a taxi online. You can choose the vehicle, the journey date, the two address (where do you come from and where do you want to go) and your details.

Here we let you another website which is only in Spanish. You can see the different taxes and the services.

¡Have a nice trip!

Montmeló

Montmeló is de circuit of Catalonia, where a lot of events take part in, as the Formula 1 and MotoGP. If you like motor sports you are going to love this place – and you have seen it on television for sure.

The Circuit of Barcelona-Catalunya was laid on 24th February 1989. Five days after the official inauguration, on 10th September 1991, Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya hosted the first official race, the Spanish Touring Car Championship, with the victory of former F1 Spanish driver Lluís Pérez-Sala. During all of these years of activity, the Circuit has witnessed the best international motor sports events, alternating with national championships or outstanding events such as endurance races.

But the Circuit is not only passion for speed; it also offers the chance to organise all kinds of events and activities for companies and individuals thanks to the multi-purpose facilities fitted to offer all kinds of services, including a restaurant, a media centre with a capacity of 450 people, several VIP spaces and even a heliport.

If you aim to go, you can go to see an event of the month. Click HERE to see the official website, where you can see the actual calendar.

You can also visit the place thanks to the guided tours. You can get inside the installations, and discover how a race is organized and controlled, where the mechanics work, and access to all confined spaces, like the briefing room, the prepodium-podium, the press room…

You can also visit the circuit in group.

Here you have the program:

Video Circuit and Guided Visit: Duration 1h - 1h 15m.

Adults: 10 €

Children under 5: Free

From 5 to 14: 5 €

Hours: 10:00, 12:00 (limited availability)

Tickets: on-line or calling to the phone number +34 93 5719777

If you want to buy tickets online click HERE.

Collserola Natural Park

The Serra de Collserola massif rises up over Barcelona Metropolitan Area, almost touching the city, a much-loved and immensely valuable natural area and great privilege for the huge population that lives around these mountains to enjoy. Collserola is a well-preserved, 8,000-hectare natural area in which you’ll find forest, plants, flowers and wild animals. 

Collserola is also a place for discovery and learning, a place for meeting and for leisure. The final goal is to promote environmentally-friendly and sustainable use of the reserve whilst also conserving the natural heritage it contains.

Since 1987, Collserola has been managed under a special protection plan, and the environmental objectives and concerns behind this plan were recently reinforced when the area was given the status of a Natural Park.

If you want to have some rest from the city, you should visit Collserola. Moreover, it provides amazing views! Do you want to take a picture WITH the city? Go to Collserola.

Aqualeon

Aqualeon is an outdoor safari with more than six hundred animals roaming free. There are incredible shows with marine animals, intelligent birds, birds of prey and reptiles. The water park has spectacular slides, a giant-wave pool, a long tube, straight slides, river rapids, twist-twist and children's pool. Other facilities include a mini zoo, nature school, beach volleyball, a la carte and self service restaurants, cafés and souvenir shops.

TIMETABLE:

The park is opened from: 

-20th of June to the 10th of July and the 31st of August to the 6th of September: 11:00h – 18:00h

-11th July to the 30th August: 10:30h – 18:30h

PRICES:

TICKET TYPE	ENTRANCE FEE	ONLINE PRICE
11 - 64 years old (Adult Ticket)	24,00 €	22,00€
5 - 10 years old (Child Ticket)	16,00 €	14,00€
3 - 4 years old (Mini Ticket)	8,00 €	6,00€
+65 years old (Senior Ticket)	16,00 €	14,00€

*Child 0 – 2 years : Free

COMBO TICKETS	ENTRANCE FEE	ONLINE PRICE
Family Pack (2 adults+ 2 children)*	Online offer only	68,00 €
Friends Pack (4 adults)	Online offer only	82,00 €

Special price for groups (mínimum 15 people) Essencial previous reservation in this email address: reservasaqualeon@aspro-ocio.es

Adult (11 to 64 years old): 20.40€

Children (5 to 10 years old): 13.60€

Mini (3 to 4 years old): 6.80€

Senior ( + 65 old): 13.60€

Additional prices:

Parking: 3.50€

Sunbed: 3.50€

Locker: 5.00€ + 5.00€ deposit

Single Tube: 7.00€ + 2.00€ deposit

Double Tube: 12.00€ + 2.00€ deposit

*Each attraction has free tubes.

The cafés and restaurant serve expensive food. Do you want to have a nice lunch? Bring your own food! Outside the park there’s a picnic zone where you can eat. After that, you can enter the park again and have fun.

How to get there? 

The inconvenient is that it may be far from Barcelona – at 1h 30 min travelling by car. The address is: Finca les Basses, 43716 Albinyana, Catalonia, Spain

HERE you can see a video from the park.

If you are interested and you want more information click HERE. Remember that online tickets are cheaper!

Topshop

Topshop is a boutique where you can buy trendy and amazing clothes. It is globally famous and it has reached Barcelona too! 

You can find the only Topshop boutique in Barcelona in Bergara Street, 108007 Barcelona. (It is next to Plaça Catalunya). It has two floors full of the special clothes of Topshop.

The opening hours are:

Monday – Saturday 10am – 9:30pm (Sundays closed) 

If you want more information about Topshop you can visit the official website HERE.

Ciutadella Park

La Ciutadella is a park situated in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona. It was created in the mid 19th century, and it has always been the city’s only green space. The 70 acres (280,000 m2) grounds include the city zoo (once home to the albino gorilla Floquet de neu (Snowflake), who died in 2004), the Parliament of Catalonia, a small lake, museums, and a large fountain.

The main attraction is the zoo. This is due to out of the 7,000 animals present. 

One half of the park's paths are sinuous and more natural-looking, and the other half ordered and parallel. Along both, huge a variety of vegetation is displayed.

Let’s have a look on the park and its parts:

CITADEL

The citadel was built in order to maintain control over the city and to prevent Catalans from rebelling. This was during the kingdom of Phillip V of Spain.

CASCADA (WATERFALL)

It is located at the northern corner of the park opposite to the lake. It was inaugurated in 1881.

LAKE

It is a scenery enjoyable most of all for romantics. Here you can find turtles on rocks, and fishes dashing through the water.

BANDSTAND

The park’s bandstand is named Glorieta de la Transsexual Sònia. It is dedicated to a transsexual named Sonia, who was murdered there on 6th October 1991.

ZOO

You can find out more information about the Zoo in THIS ARTICLE.

MUSEUMS

You can go in the zoology museum of Barcelona and the geology museum.

How to get there?

You can go by metro. The stop is Villa Olímpica (L4) or Arc de Triomf (L1)

We recommend this park as it is a different part of the city where you can relax and enjoy everything that it offers.

Titus Disco

Titus is an outdoor nightclub tastefully decorated with 2 atmospheres and music. Instead of being situated in a closed local, it is situated in a carpe. Even if it is an outdoor disco it offers comfort and it is very glamorous. Inside it is decorated elegantly with woods, bamboo and a special luminance effect that gives the disco an amazing look. Moreover, Titus Carpa is opened all year and parties are thrown there during all year.

It is opened on Friday and Saturday, between 23:45 and 6:00.

As we said before, there are two atmospheres. The central carpe is the one situated outdoors and with different kinds music. The other carpe, the little one, offers electronic music such as house, dance, etc. There are tables where people can have something.

It is often crowded. People can enjoy this disco if they are more than 21 years old.

How to get there?

It is located between Badalona and Montgat (just in front of the beach). The address is: Carretera de Mataró, Km. 629, C.P. 08911, Badalona, Barcelona.

You can get there by:

Train - RENFE R1 - Estació Montgat
BUS – Daily: Tubsal Nº 22,29,30,31 and N9 at night

If you want more information click HERE.

Double Agent

Double Agent is a popular shop from the USA that expanded and opened some shops in other countries. One of them was Spain. Now we can enjoy the products of this boutique, which are inspired in American clothes. Here you can buy ethnic, chic and cool clothes for a low price.

We like this shop not only because of the clothes but for the accessories too. The style is nice and fashionable.

If you want more information about Double Agent in Spain, click HERE.

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Double Agent es una tienda muy famosa de los Estados Unidos que se ha expandido y ha abierto tiendas en otros países; unas cuantas en España.

Ahora podemos disfrutar de sus productos, inspirados en la ropa americana. Puedes comprar ropa ètnica, chic y muy bonita a un precio bastante asequible.

Nos gusta esta tienda, no sólo por la ropa sino también por sus accesorios. El estilo es bonito, fresco y moderno.

Si quieres más información sobre Double Agent en España, haz click AQUÍ.

Indoor Karting

Indoor karting is a place in Sant Feliu de Llobregat (a city near Barcelona) where you can go karting. It is very professional and you are going to have fun for sure!

It may be expensive, but the experience is worth it. The ordinary entrance consists in a 10 minute-long race and the price is 19,00€.

Once you have entered the place you have to wait for your time to get into the car. Meanwhile, you have to put on your riding clothes that the personal from Indoor Karting will give you.

Once in the car, you just have to have fun and win the race!

How to get there? The adress is:

Poligon Industrial El Pla

Ctra. Laureà Miró, 434 (N-340)

08980 St. Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona

You can go by RENFE, a train that you can take in Plaza Espanya, until the Sant Vicenç dels Horts Stop. There you can take a bus to St. Feliu del Llobregat.

The buses that can take you there are:

During the day: L50, L57, L60, L61, L62, L64 y L65

At night: N41 y N50

The opening times are:

ADULTS:

Monday – Thursday 16:00 - 23:00

Friday and holiday eves 16:00 - 01:00

Saturday 10:00 - 02:00

Sunday 10:00 - 23:00

KIDS:

Monday – Friday 16:00 - 21:00

Saturday 10:00 - 21:00

Sunday 10:00 - 21:00

(Make sure it's available calling the office or checking the news zone because sometimes there are events in this timespan).

If you want more information or want to have the tickets click HERE.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indoor Karting es un lugar en Sant Feliu de Llobregat (una ciudad cerca de Barcelona) donde se puede practicar karting.
¡Es muy profesional y si te vas a divertir seguro!

Puede ser un poco caro, pero la experiencia vale la pena. La entrada normal consiste en 10 minutos de larga carrera y el precio es de 19,00 €.

Una vez que hayas entrado en el lugar tienes que esperar tu tiempo para entrar en el kart. Mientras tanto, tienes que ponerte la ropa de montar que el personal te dará.

¡Una vez en el coche, sólo hay que divertirse y ganar la carrera!

Cómo llegar:

Poligon Industrial El Pla

Ctra. Laureà Miró, 434 (N-340)

08980 St. Feliu de Llobregat, Barcelona

Puedes ir en tren, que puedes cogerlo en Plaza Espanya, hasta Sant Vicenç dels Horts. Allí coges un bus que te lleve a St. Feliu de Llobregat. Los buses de día: L50, L57, L60, L61, L62, L64 y L65

Y los de noche: N41 y N50

Horarios:

ADULTOS:

Lunes - Jueves 16:00 - 23:00

Viernes y festivos: 16:00 - 01:00

Sábado: 10:00 - 02:00

Domingo: 10:00 - 23:00

NIÑOS;

Lunes - Viernes: 16:00 - 21:00

Sábado: 10:00 - 21:00

Domingo: 10:00 - 21:00

Para más información o para reservar los tickets, haz click AQUÍ.

Sant Antoni Market

Sant Antoni is a hidden market of Barcelona, where people can buy fresh products. Some say that this market is like the Boqueria market but larger and without tourists. Colorful stalls for alimentation, fruit, vegetables, fish and seafood, the Mercat de Sant Antoni at the southwestern edge of the Raval is one of the largest market halls in Barcelona still in activity. The steel-skeleton building (1872-82) – now is being repaired - by Antoni Rovira i Trias occupies the area of a complete block of streets and the market offers also tapas bars.

Curious fact: on Sunday from 8.30am to 2.30pm just around the outside of the building there is a book and coin market for all the collectors out there. You will find a tremendous assortment of old books, magazines, comics, postcards, records, coins, stamps but also textiles..

The opening times of the market are:

Monday to Thursday: 7-14:30 and 17-20:30
Friday, Saturday and vigils: 7-20:30

 If you want more information click HERE.


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Sant Antoni es un mercado oculto de Barcelona, donde la gente puede comprar productos frescos. Algunos dicen que este mercado es como el mercado de la Boquería, pero más grande y sin turistas. Coloridos puestos de alimentación, frutas, verduras, pescados y mariscos, el Mercat de Sant Antoni en el borde suroeste del Raval es uno de los mayores mercados en Barcelona todavía en actividad. El edificio de acero esqueleto (1872-1882) - está siendo reparado - ocupa el área de un bloque completo de las calles y el mercado ofrece también bares de tapas.

Dato curioso: los domingos de 8:30 a 14:30 a la vuelta de la parte exterior del edificio hay un mercado de libros y monedas para todos los coleccionistas. Encontrarás una gran variedad de libros viejos, revistas, cómics, postales, documentos, monedas, telas...

Los horarios del mercado:

Lunes - Jueves:  7-14:30 y 17-20:30
Viernes, Sábado y festivos: 7-20:30

Para más info, haz click AQUÍ.

Granja la Pallaresa

“La Pallaresa” is a cute café next to La Rambla of Barcelona. Here you can have a nice cup of coffee or a hot chocolate cup while being in the centre of Barcelona. 

You should taste the churros, which are very common in Spain and can be a sweet breakfast! What’s more, people from Barcelona say that in this café they serve the best chocolate of Barcelona.

The waiters were very friendly and had always a smile on their faces.

As we said before, it is located in a street next to La Rambla. The name of the street is ‘Petritxol’. 

If you click HERE you can go to their Facebook page.

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"La Pallaresa" es una cafeteria encantadora al lado de las Ramblas. Puedes tomarte una taza de café o uno de los mejores chocolates calientes - según dice la gente.

¡Prueba los churros, están bueníssimos!

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El servicio es muy simpático y siempre llevan una sonrisa que te alegra el día.

Como hemos dicho antes, está al lado de las Ramblas, en la calle Petritxol.

Haz click AQUÍ para ver su página de Facebook.

These are churros with hot chocolate

EL CAMELL

Nowadays called 'El mercadillo', the antique shop known as 'El camell' especially for its camel sculpture on the entrance, is one of the hidden boutiques of Barcelona. It is a charming space, a secret garden full of vegetation, quiet, peaceful and perfect for spend time far from stress of Barcelona.

You can find from earrings to 'Green day' sweatshirts. Whatever you want, it’s on ‘El camell’. Besides, upstairs there’s a fantastic garden-bar where you can relax surrounded as if you were in a forest.

It’s located on the middle of Barcelona, between les Rambles and Portal de l’Àngel. You can get off the train at Plaça Catalunya, go down les Rambles and search the street Portaferrissa 17. It’s opened from Monday to Saturday, from 11.00 to 21.00.

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Hoy en día llamado 'El mercadillo', la antigua tienda conocida com 'El camell' por la estátua de un camello en su entrada, es una de las tiendas escondidas de Barcelona. Es un sitio tranquilo, con un jardín secreto pacífico y perfecto para pasar un rato alejado de la bulliciosa ciudad.

Puedes encontrar desde todo tipo de pendientes, hasta camisetas de 'Green day'. Lo que quieras, lo encontrarás. Además, arriba tiene un fantástico bar-jardín donde puedes relajarte como si estuvieras en un bosque.

Está en medio de Barcelona, entre las Ramblas y Portal de l'Àngel. Puedes bajarte del tren en Plaça Catalunya, ir hacia las Ramblas y buscar la calle Portaferrisa, nº 17. Está abierto de lunes a sábado, de 11:00 a 21:00.