1. BARCELONA
Lemonia Ainalidou

3. Barcelona generally
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Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and the
second largest city in Spain, after Madrid.
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It is the sixth-most populous urban area in the
European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr,
Madrid and Milan.
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Barcelona is today one of the world's leading
tourist, economic, trade fair/exhibitions and
cultural-sports centres, and its influence in
commerce, education, entertainment, media,
fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its
status as one of the world's major global cities

4. 
It is the fourth economically powerful city by GDP
in the European Union and 35th in the world with
an output amounting to €177 billion.
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Barcelona is the transport hub with one of
Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international
airport, which handles above 34 million
passengers per year, extensive motorway
network and also is a hub of high-speed rail,
particularly that which is intended to link Spain
with France and the rest of Europe, as the second
longest in the world.

5. Park Güell: is a garden complex , designed by
Antony Gaudi
World Heritage Sites of Barcelona

7.  Palau Güell: is a mansion designed by the
architect Antony Gaudi

8. Casa Milà: is a building designed by the
Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during
the years 1905–1910, being considered officially
completed in 1912.

9. Casa Vicens : is a family residence in, designed
by Antoni Gaudí and built for industrialist Manuel
Vicens.

10. The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada
Família, commonly known as the Sagrada Família
, is a large Roman Catholic church and symbol of
Barcelona, designed by Catalan architect Antoni
Gaudí (1852–1926).

11. Casa Batlló : is a building restored by Antoni
Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in 1877 and
remodelled in the years 1904–1906

12.  Palau de la Música Catalana: is a concert hall
in Barcelona, designed in the Catalan modernista
style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner,
it was built between 1905 and 1908

13. The former Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant
Pau , English: Hospital of the Holy Cross and
Saint Paul) in the neighborhood of El Guinardó, ,
is a complex built between 1901 and 1930,
designed by the Catalan modernist architect Lluís
Domènech i Montaner.
It was a fully functioning hospital until June
2009, it is currently undergoing restoration for use
as a museum and cultural center.

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The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya,
abbreviated as MNAC, is the national museum of
Catalan visual art. It is especially notable for its
outstanding collection of romanesque church
paintings.
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Picasso Museum
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Fundació Joan Miró,
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Cosmocaixa, a science museum that received
the European Museum of the Year Award in 2006.
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Erotic Museum: set up with the clear purpose of
providing an educational and recreational centre
focusing on eroticism.
Museums

16. 
Barcelona contains sixty-eight municipal parks,
of which twelve are historic parks, five are
thematic (botanical) parks, forty-five are urban
parks and six are forest parks.
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The urban parks alone cover 10% of the city.
Parks in Barcelona

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The Liceu opera house
Other things to visit

21. The Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe.

22. Palau Sant Jordi (St. George's sporting arena)
and Montjuïc Communications Tower

23.  Torre Agbar: is a 38-story skyscraper / tower,
which measures a total of 50,693 square metres,
of which 30,000 are offices, 3,210 technical
facilities, 8,132 services, including an auditorium,
and 9,132 square metres for parking.

24. The Arc de Triomf, is a triumphal arch, which
was built for the Exposición Universal de
Barcelona (1888), as its main access gate by
architect Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas.

25. Aqcuarium of Barcelona

26. La Rambla : a street in central Barcelona,
popular with tourists and locals alike.

27. Barcelona beaches