Las Ramblas

Paseo located between Plaza de Catalunya, downtown, and the ancient port. There are newsagents, flowers, birds and pets, street performers, cafes, ...

Near the port tend to settle markets, as well as painters and artists of all kinds, emphasizing the area for its artistic and cosmopolitan. Walking along Les Rambles can admire several interesting buildings, such as the Palacio de la Virreina, La Boqueria market and the famous theater of Gran Teatre del Liceu, in which operas and ballets. A side street a few meters long, leads to the Plaza Real (in cat. Plaça Reial), a plaza with palm trees and buildings that house porches pubs and restaurants, and which meet on weekends stamp collectors and coins.

The Las Ramblas ends near the old port, where the statue of Christopher Columbus pointing toward the sea. A few steps away is the Maritime Museum (Museu Maritim), mainly devoted to naval history in the Mediterranean, which displays real-scale reproduction of an ancient galley battle. The museum is located in the shipyards of the Middle Ages, where he built boats sailing around the Mediterranean. The old port offers other attractions, like an entertainment center with shops, restaurants, an IMAX cinema, and as a documentation center, an aquarium of the Mediterranean marine fauna.

In the historical center, very near Las Ramblas, Barcelona's Cathedral stands, St. James's Square which houses the buildings of the Generalitat of Catalonia and Barcelona City Council, and both lanes of the Gothic Quarter and Borne of the suburb and .

Also highlights the possibility of appreciating the medieval walls Drassanes beside them, in parallel, the imposing Roman walls and the entrance of the aqueduct in the street Lieutenant Navarro, along the tracks Layetana, or the old door next to the cathedral, being "Barcino" Barcelona one of the best provincial walled cities of the Roman Empire. They also highlight the strengths Fortí medieval castle or the castle of Montjuic, although the ancient citadel and defensive walls built in 1714 and around the city, were demolished in the nineteenth century for urban expansion, yet there are still buildings Church and Arsenal, which houses the headquarters of the Catalan Parliament.