2-, 3-, 4- or 5- day card featuring free travel on public transport, and discounts and free offers at museums, cultural venues, leisure attractions, night clubs, shops, restaurants, on entertainments, unique means of transport and other services.

The Barcelona Bus Turístic operates on three sightseeing routes: the blue route, the red route and the green route. With a one- or two-day ticket, you can travel on all three routes and get on and off the double-decker bus as many times as you like. A complete informative guide and a discount voucher booklet about the city’s main landmarks are issued with the ticket.
Audioguide system in 10 languages. Individual headphones. Adapted buses.

SPECIAL PROMOTION BARCELONA WALKING TOURS: Special promotion. Discover Barcelona with professional guides on five walking tours: the Gothic Quarter, Picasso, Modernisme, Gourmet and Marina.

Valid every day, except 25th December and 1st January.

Discover some of Catalonia’s major landmarks on the Catalunya Bus Turístic. The service offers one-day and half-day bus trips from Barcelona, on five different routes. A courier travels on board to provide any information passengers may need.

Dalí’s Figueres and Girona route from April to October 2011.
Montserrat & Sitges route from April to October 2011.
Wine & Cava route from  April to October 2011.
Market & Culture in Vic from April to October 2011.
Gaudí, Wine & Shopping in Reus from April to October 2011. NEW.

Departs from Plaça Catalunya. Departures are guaranteed with prior booking.

Routes

1. Dalí’s Figueres and Girona. Daily except Monday
Includes:

• Admission to the Teatre-Museu Dalí in Figueres and the “Dalí-Jewels” exhibition.
• Guided walking tour of Girona
• A whole host of discounts at places of interest, restaurants and shops.

2. Montserrat and Sitges. Departures daily except Monday.
Includes:

• Montserrat

• Ride to the Monastery on the rack railway.
• Admission to the Audiovisual Exhibit.
• Tasting of traditional liqueurs.

• Guided visit of Casa Bacardi Sitges.
• A whole host of discounts at places of interest, restaurants and shops.

3. Wine & Cava Departures Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
Includes:

• Guided tour and tasting of two different wines at Jean Leon Winery.
• Guided tour and cheese and wine matching in Bodegas Torres.
• Guided tour, tasting of two different cava and tapas sampling at Caves Freixenet.

4. Market & Culture in Vic Departures on Tuesdays
Includes:

• Guided tour to the old town and the cathedral.
• Admission and guided visit to the Museu Episcopal.
• Tasting of “pa amb tomàquet”, typical sausage and wine.
• A whole host of discounts at places of interest, restaurants and shops.

5. Gaudí, Wine & Shopping in in Reus Departures on Saturdays
Includes:

• Guided tour in Gaudí Centre.
• Lunch “Menú Català” (starter/main course/dessert, bread and water/wine).
• Guided tour & tasting in De Mueller winery

2011 Prices (Valid from April to October)

Walking tours of Barcelona led by professional guides (radioguide system included). Guaranteed departures. Places are limited. Pre-booking essential. Each tour lasts 2 hours.

Gothic Quarter Tour
Discover the history of the city as you explore the Gothic Quarter's streets, squares and buildings that date back hundreds of years.

Picasso Tour
Find out about Picasso's life as you visit the bohemian Barcelona he experienced. Includes admission and guided visit to the Museu Picasso.

Modernisme Tour
A walk through the Quadrat d'Or (Golden Square) in the Eixample district where you can admire the modernista buildings by architects such as Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner and Puig i Cadafalch. A true open-air museum. Includes discount for. Casa Batlló admission, Museu del Modernisme Català admission, Ruta del Modernisme ticket.

Gourmet Tour
Discover the history of Barcelona's cuisine, as well as some of its over 100 year-old shops and food outlets, on this guided walking tour of the city's old town. Two tastings included.

Marina Tour (Valid from April to October)
Route along the Barcelona's coastline for discovering the important role the sea has played in Barcelona's history by combining walk and open sea navigation on Las Golondrinas pleasure boats. Includes: Las Golondrinas pleasure boats ticket, Mirador de Colom viewing gallery ticket, 50% discount on Maritime museum admission, visit to schooner Santa Eulàlia.

(Valid throughout the year, except 1/1, 6/1, 25/12, 26/12 and Friday and Saturdays that fall on a public holiday – Gourmet Tour)

Retail price 2012 (Valid from 2nd January to 31st December 2012)

Enjoy panoramic views of Barcelona on board a sailing boat and learn basic sailing techniques. Celebrate your maiden voyage with a glass of cava. Departures are guaranteed with prior booking. Trip lasts 2 hours.

Valid from 1st April to 31st October

2011 Prices (Valid from April to October 2011)

Multi-ticket providing admission to the five Barcelona museums with archaeological collections:

- Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya
- Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Precolombí
- Museu Egipci de Barcelona
- Museu d’Història de Barcelona
- Museu Marítim de Barcelona

The museum visit traces a journey to the past of our own civilisations and other cultures in order to gain a better understanding of the present.
A unique opportunity to journey through history!!

Ticket valid for a one-year period from purchase date.

2011 Retail Price: 14€

By combining travel on the metro, walks and the occasional bus or tram journey, you’ll be able to discover the city on seven suggested routes from an insider’s point of view, as if you were one of the locals, at your own pace.
Includes:
- an informative guide in three languages
- T2 travel pass: unlimited free travel on public transport during 2 consecutive days.

2012 Retail Price: 13€

Take the lift inside the column to the viewing gallery at the top and enjoy panoramic views of Barcelona, 60 metres above the ground.

2012 Retail Prices: (Valid from 2nd January to 31st December 2012)

"Gaudí's Barcelona" describes the 11 Barcelona buildings designed by Gaudí. They are listed in chronological order on individual audio tracks. The audioguide can be downloaded to a mp3 player or mobile device from the Turisme de Barcelona website. Languages: English, Catalan, Spanish and French

For more information:
www.barcelonaturisme.cat

6 foundations with contemporary art collections
Multi-ticket that offers you entrance to six museums in Barcelona and allows you experience different artistic disciplines –painting, sculpture, photography and video art-, through major works by artists from Spain and abroad, brought together by six collectors.

- Fundació Alorda Derksen

- Fundació de les Arts I els Artistes

- Fundació Foto Colectania

- Fundació Francisco Godia

- Fundació Suñol

- Fundació Vila Casas

The Artcoticket offers savings of almost 50% on the overall price.

The ticket is valid for one year after purchase.

Price: 15�

The Articket provides one-time admission, over a six-month period, to the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions at seven of Barcelona’s foremost museums: Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Fundació Joan Miró, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Centre de Culture Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), La Pedrera - Fundació Caixa Catalunya and Museu Picasso.

The Articket provides access to a wide range of art exhibitions and collections from Catalonia, the rest of Spain and abroad, ranging from Romanesque frescoes to the contributions of contemporary artists such as Miró, Picasso and Tàpies. It also provides an opportunity to visit landmark buildings such as Gaudí’s La Pedrera and Richard Meier’s MACBA.

Retail prices Jan to 31th May 2012: 25€

Daily guided bicycle tours from Pl Catalunya in English and/or Spanish. Bottle of water and a drink on the beach included. Guaranteed departures

Departure times:

	11am (Daily excepto 1/1 y 25/12)
	4.30pm (Daily from 15th April to 3rd October, Saturday and Sunday in November).
	- 7.30pm (Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from June to September).

2011 prices: (Valid from 2nd January to 31st December 2001)

Barcelona Scooter gives you the opportunity to explore Barcelona in a different and original way, and provides an alternative to conventional tours.

Barcelona Scooter provides a guided panoramic tour of the city's main tourist landmarks, on 125cc, automatic scooters. The tour is led by a guide who will tell you about the history of the sights along the way: Olympic Marina, Parc del Fòrum, Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló, Poble Espanyol, MNAC, Olympic Ring, La Ribera, Olympic Marina.

Valid on Thursday and Saturday throughout the year.

2011 Prices: (until 31th March 2012)

Visit Gaudí's legendary masterpiece. One of the foremost landmarks of Modernisme, which captivates its visitors with its design, the creative use of materials and colours, and its allegorical forms.

2011 Retail Prices: (Valid from 2nd January to 31st December 2011)

Discover the Museu del Modernisme Català, opened in 2010. It is housed in a former textile factory in the centre of Barcelona, and offers visitors the chance to enjoy a cultural centre dedicated exclusively to modernista art.

2012 retail prices: (Valid from 2nd January to 31st December 2012)

For special conditions and prices for professionals please contact :
productes@barcelonaturisme.cat
www.barcelonaturisme.cat

After a huge success last year, the Barcelona Opportunity Week returns from January 27th to February 5th, 2012, with shopping, fine dining, culture and fantastic hotel deals all at a fraction of the normal price. Branded BCNOW, this promotional campaign coincides with the winter sales season, so tourists are in for a feast! Apart from the great prices, you'll be supporting a good cause with part of the incomes going to a charity chosen by each participating establishment. The useful BCNOW website allows users the chance to get priority bulletins emailed to them with updates about the latest campaign features and news.

Barcelona has been awarded the "Biosphere World Class Destination" certification by the Institute of Responsible Tourism (ITR), an entity associated with UNESCO’s World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and a member of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), sponsored by the United Nations Foundation. The Catalan capital is now the first city in the world to obtain Biosphere certification, reflecting its responsible tourism management and backing up its claim to be a sustainable tourism destination.

The award is recognition of the City and Turisme de Barcelona’s commitment to promoting a balance between residents and visitors in order to ensure sustainability and the continued future success of tourism in Barcelona. Policies aimed at public transport, energy saving measures (efficient lighting) are specific examples of what Barcelona is doing for sustainable tourism.

Despite strong competition from cities likes Paris, Munich and Milan, Barcelona has won the candidature to become the World Mobile Capital until 2018, in addition to its cornerstone: the Mobile World Congress, the world’s premiere exhibition event for mobile technology manufacturers, entrepreneurs, software designers and international corporations.

Barcelona is no stranger to the annual World Mobile Congress, having hosted it since 2006. In February 2011, more than 60,000 people from 200 countries attended, including 3,000 CEOs, government delegations from 131 countries and more than 2,900 media representatives.

The Mobile World Centre will feature permanent and temporary exhibitions -a fusion of culture and technological innovation-, facilities for the development and incubation of mobile solutions, and retail and hospitality venues. Meanwhile, the Mobile World Festival, targeted at the general public, will incorporate a range of activities including sports events, music and art festivals, film awards, applications and technology fairs and much more.

Worldwide users of IPhones, Ipads and Android-based Smartphones and Tablets can soon download from the Apple Store and Android Market the exclusive videoguide App of Barcelona.

This first videoguide application for Barcelona is being produced and developed by Smartour in joint cooperation with Turisme de Barcelona and will be launched worldwide in four languages (Catalan, English, Spanish and French) as downloadable Apps by early November.

This innovative service merges the concepts of mobile technology, geo-positioning in real time and high quality videos of tourist and cultural sights of interest in Barcelona, the first major tourist destination in Europe that makes this innovative service available for its visitors

For more information:
www.barcelonaturisme.com

One of Antoni Gaudí’s best kept secrets is the Crypt he designed for the Güell textile colony, which was built at the turn of the 19th century complete with factories, streets, housing, shops and school in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, just outside Barcelona.

The Crypt is considered one of the best examples of the Catalan architect’s early work, with its trencadissos. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005, the Crypt and the Colony –also declared of national cultural interest- make a great trip out and are easily reached by train from Barcelona. Visitors get to explore the area with its modernista buildings and Interpretation Centre located inside a former workers’ cooperative.

You see how Colonia Güell came about and models of Gaudí’s church design for the area, which unfortunately never actually got built, as well as a wide variety of tourist services including guided tours, audio guides, dramatised tours, etc. and other general services, including rest areas, car and bus parking, etc.

Tickets from www.barcelonaturisme.com

Barcelona now boasts Spain’s first museum for contemporary figurative art, the just-opened European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM). Its three floors in the highly-fashionable downtown Born area feature abstract, experimental or realism figurative art –a permanent collection of some 200 paintings and 30 sculptures from a variety of international contemporary artists including Carlos Saura, Alessio Bogani, Susanne Hay and Fang Lu, amongst others.  MEAM, an initiative of the Foundation of Arts and Artists, is located in the historic and renovated 1,700 m2 Palau Gomis, which dates back to the Baroque epoch.

www.meam.es

Barcelona now boasts a Museum of Motorbikes, hardly surprising considering this city has the most motorbikes per capita in Europe. This new 600 m2 museum located in halls adjacent to the Sant Felip Neri church in the heart of the Gothic Quarter guides visitors through the manufacturing splendour of Catalan produced bikes and legendary brands like Montesa, Bultaco, OSSA and Derbi. Opened earlier this year, the museum features permanent and temporary exhibitions with over 70 bikes, both large cylinder and small. Amongst the showpieces in the current exhibition, visitors will find 70 designs that best represent brands from the 150-or-so manufactures that have had production operations in Catalonia at one time or another.

www.museumoto.com

Until March 2012 musical lovers can catch a Spanish-language version of one of the world’s most admired shows, Les Miserables, at the Barcelona Teatre Musical. With 56 million spectators already under its belt across 42 countries, this Victor Hugo-inspired classic is getting its first showcase in Barcelona, and with its impressive stage scenery, huge cast and period decoration, this show promises to top the theatre billings in the coming months.

www.losmiserables.es

Barcelona boasts quality music festivals across a whole range of genres. Coming up soon music buffs can catch the 43rd Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival (October 20 – December 1st), De Cajon! Barcelona Flamenco Festival (January to March, 2012) and the 23rd Guitar Festival (March to May, 2012).

Barcelona’s jazz bonanza comes jammed packed with stars like Pat Metheny, Maria Schneider Orchestra, or Adriana Calcanhotto. Italy gets a special place in this edition with some of their best jazz players playing in Barcelona.

The city’s flamenco showcase dates back to 2006 with top quality billings every year including singers like Paco de Lucía, Los Farruco, or José Estrella. If you are a fan of flamenco or just curious, this is a great opportunity.
Eclectic and cosmopolitan, the city’s guitar festival brings together the most classical and the avant-garde. 

For more information:
www.barcelonajazzfestival.com
www.theproject.es

Some of the world’s top rock, pop and R&B stars will be playing Barcelona venues this quarter. George Michael will be at Palau Sant Jordi presenting his new tour Synphonica. The Orchestral Tour (27/9), while new Brit rock sensations Kooks are to present their new album Junk of the Heart at Razzmatazz (23/10). Roxette play Sant Jordi Club (19/11) and R&B’s top lady Rihanna will no doubt fill Palau Sant Jordi with her much awaited Loud Tour (14/12) followed by Red Hot Chili Peppers (15/12).

Faust will open the opera season at the Liceu this autumn, a much-awaited programme peppered with classics and new operas like Jo, Dalí, or the Spanish premiere of Le Grand Macabre with veteran tenor North American Chris Merritt starring. Classics include Puccini’s La Bohème, Verdi’s Aida and two Mozart favourites The Magic Flute and Le nozze di Figaro.

Another city cultural icon, L’Auditori de Barcelona, home to the Barcelona and Catalonia Symphonic Orchestra (OBC), and the Palau de la Música offer a wide range of concerts and festivals this season, too.

At L’Auditori we find something for everyone: children’s concerts like Ma, me, mi... Mozart!, while the full concert programme includes the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, or the Russian Army’s Sant Petersburg Orchestra, Ballet and Choir or the Alabama Gospel Choir.

The Palau de la Música also offers variety on its concert programme for 2011-12 with the Vallès Symphony Orchestra, which celebrates its 25th anniversary, a variety of Bach and Beethoven concerts, solo artists like Christian Lindberg -one of the best trombonists in the world-, a series on film scores, and composers like Tchaikovsky or Brahms.

www.liceubarcelona.cat
www.auditori.org
www.palaumusica.cat

Come the weekend of October 22nd/23rd, Barcelona’s architectonic gems will open their doors to the public free of charge. The initiative, 48H Open House Barcelona, is now in its second consecutive edition and forms part of a wider project taking place in cities like London and New York. The idea is to make architecture more popular for the general public, and with more than 150 buildings participating organisers are expecting thousands to take part. The buildings have been chosen because of their design quality and architects, planners and users will be on hand to share their views with visitors. Included are emblematic city buildings and some more tucked away ones including a library, private houses, an office building, a hotel and group of historic buildings -some of these not open to the public during the rest of the year. This year’s programme will include l’Arc de Triomf and Torre d’Aigües de Catalana de Gas.

www.48hopenhousebarcelona.org/

This October 16th over 5,000 athletes will take part in the Garmin Barcelona Triathlon, Spain’s biggest and most international event in this sport. The boxes for athletes will be sited in the Mar Bella Sports Complex in the Forum area. Triathlons are one of the toughest sports around, and include a sea swim, cycle ride and running event.

www.garminbarcelonatriathlon.com

Convenience, speed and security .... key words that sum up Aparcaivola’s very price conscious valet car parking service for airport and port of Barcelona users. You drop your car off at their conveniently located car park and they shuttle you to the airport or on to that cruise. There’s also an Express service for Terminal 1 passengers, and even a VIP service that allows you to leave your car in front of the terminal and Aparcaivola do the rest.

www.aparcaivola.com

Mobec Hotels is a new initiative offering tourists staying at five top city hotels  (Diagonal Zero, Santos Porta Fira, Me Barcelona, Rey Juan Carlos I and W Barcelona) the chance to visit Barcelona in a very personal but ecological way: on an electric-powered motorbike. You pick up the keys from reception and the electric motorbike is parked in a nearby docking station, with up to 30 kms worth of power per day.

2011

• 24rd September (La Mercè, Patron saint of Barcelona)
• 12th October (Saint Pilar)
• 1th November (All Saints)
• 6th December (Constitution Day)
• 8th December (The Immaculate Conception)
• 26th December (Saint Stephen/ Boxing Day)

2012

• 6th January (Three Kings Day/ Epiphany)
• 6th April (Easter Friday)
• 9th April ( Easter Monday )
• 1st May
• 15th August (Assumption)
• 24rd September (La Merc�, Patron saint of Barcelona)
• 12th October (Saint Pilar)
• 1th November (All Saints)
• 6th December (Constitution Day)
• 8th December (The Immaculate Conception)
• 25th December (Christmas Day)
• 26th December (Saint Stephen/ Boxing Day)