2-, 3-, 4- or 5- day card featuring free travel on public transport, and some 100 discounts and free offers at museums, cultural venues, theatres, leisure attractions, night clubs, shops, restaurants, on entertainments, unique means of transport and other services.

2008 Prices (Valid from 1st January to 31st December 2008) - RETAIL PRICE

Commission for the travel trade: 20%

Organisers: Turisme de Barcelona

A voucher booklet featuring discounts at the city’s main landmarks and attractions, representing important savings for tourists. It brings added value to Barcelona visitor packages and is sold exclusively through tour operators and travel agencies, who includes it with the visitors’ travel documents.

2008 / 2009 Edition - Valid from 1st April 2008 to 31st March 2009

The Barcelona Bus Turístic operates on three sightseeing routes: the northbound red) route, the southbound (blue) route and the Forum (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.

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

The Night-Time Barcelona Bus Turístic covers a route that reveals the city’s major landmarks floodlit by night. The route begins and ends at the Plaça de Catalunya, and includes the Passeig de Gràcia, the church of the Sagrada Família, the Agbar Tower, the old harbour district, the Port Vell, and the Montjuïc Magic Fountain.

The Night-Time Barcelona Bus Turístic runs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from May to September, with one daily departure at 9.30pm. The tour takes about two and a half hours.

2008 retail price

Discover some of Catalonia’s major landmarks on the Catalunya Bus Turístic.

The service offers one-day bus trips from Barcelona, on three different routes and a courier travels on board to provide any information passengers may need.

Buses run daily, except Monday, from:

• Dalí’s City & Girona route from 11th March to 16th November 2008
• Montserrat, Winery & Sitges route from 11th March to 7th December 2008
• New-Wine & Tasting  route from 3rd June to 16th November 2008

Walking tours of Barcelona led by professional guides (radioguide system included).

Guaranteed departures. Places are limited. Pre-booking essential. Each tour lasts 2 hours.

Ghotic 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 to the Museu Picasso.

A hire service renting out bicycles by the hour, for half a day, a full day or more. Discover Barcelona, its main landmarks and tourist attractions as you pedal through the city’s streets. Map of the bicycle lane network and information about the city’s tourist areas included.

Valid throughout the year, except 1st January and 25th December.

Punts de lloguer:

• Mirador de Colom
• Pl. Portal de la Pau, s/n

2008 Prices (Valid from 2nd January to 31st December 2008) - RETAIL PRICE

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.

Barcelona Golf gives you the opportunity to play golf with a professional, either one-to-one, with two or three players, or four ball, on an 18-hole golf course near Barcelona.

Valid from 1st January to 31st December.

Clubs disponibles:

• Club de Golf Sant Cugat (30 minutes from Barcelona)
• PGA Golf Catalunya (60 minutes from Barcelona)
• Vilalba Golf Club (30 minutes from Barcelona)

Barcelona Scooter takes you on a panoramic tour of the city’s main landmarks and gives you the opportunity to explore Barcelona in a different and original way, providing an alternative to the conventional sightseeing experience.

Valid on Saturdays throughout the year.

RETAIL PRICES 2008

Commission for the travel trade: 20%

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 la Ciutat 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!!

2008 retail price: 18€

Commission for the travel trade: 20%

Barcelona is a city that is open to the sea. The beaches of the Catalan capital, which stretch for over 4,5 kilometres, are one of the biggest recreational areas which are used by the local community and visitors alike. The public transport and bicycle-lane network means they are just a few minutes away from anywhere in the city. The beaches feature all the necessary amenities and services so they can be enjoyed in a variety of ways at any time of the year.

Turisme de Barcelona has created the Barcelona Beach programme in order to promote the beaches of the Catalan capital as a tourist attraction and a complement to the city’s cultural offering. The project has launched with the publication of a leaflet in two separate editions in Catalan/English and Spanish/French which describe the wide range of services and activities to be found on the city’s seafront and beaches.

The Turisme de Barcelona website has added a new section for cinema lovers.

As part of this interconnected framework of city, tourism and film, Turisme de Barcelona and the Escola Universitària d’Hoteleria i Turisme CETT-UB, are launching Movie Walks, a series of themed itineraries, based on the transfer of knowledge from a research project about four films shot in Barcelona: Manual of Love 2: New Chapters (2006); Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2005); The Spanish Apartment (2001) and All About My Mother (1998). Forty-one scenes in total, set in the city’s streets and neighbourhoods, and information designed to help lovers of the Seventh Art plan their visit to Barcelona based around the four films, some of which were true phenomena at the time.

Turisme de Barcelona’s Gastronomy Programme is responsible for promoting the city’s culinary offering and has published the Barcelona Restaurants Map, a booklet featuring information about the 153 restaurants that are members of the programme and which we consider to be among the finest in the city.

The on-line restaurant booking service on the website www.barcelonaturisme.cat, also features information about the restaurants.

The Catalan brewery Moritz has been chosen as a strategic partner of Turisme de Barcelona following the signing of a collaboration agreement to promote Catalan cuisine around the world. Moritz beers will now be working on the campaign launched by Turisme de Barcelona to take the city’s gastronomy to the four continents, following an ambitious programme involving the presentation of Barcelona’s cuisine and its chefs in the world’s main capitals.

Since the Moritz brewery was founded in 1856, it has always been closely associated with the city and involved in promoting Barcelona’s culture and gastronomy as “Barcelona’s beer”. Moritz is currently distributed in countries such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Italy, Japan and the United States where it has been very well received.

Reed Travel Exhibitions, the organisers of the global meetings and incentives exhibition EIBTM, have announced the extension of the agreement with Turisme de Barcelona and the city’s trade fair Fira de Barcelona as a result of which the city will continue to host the exhibition for the next five years.The new contract will come into effect in 2009 and remain valid until 2013.

The renewal of EIBTM for another five years confirms Barcelona’s position as a key hub for the world tourism market. In recent years, the Catalan capital has continued to expand in the convention and congress segment, with professional meetings experiencing growth and gaining even greater recognition worldwide.

Seven science museums and visitor attractions in Barcelona and its metropolitan area have joined forces to offer a combined ticket in the form of a discount booklet providing one-time admission to these venues: the Ticket Ciència.

The participating museums and attractions are: Museu de Ciències Naturals, Cosmocaixa, Museu Agbar, Botanical Gardens, Museu Marítim, the Zoo and Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya.

2008 prices: 19 €

ome of the city’s hotels provide a personal shopper service for tourists who need advice about their purchases.

For further information:
www.barcelonashoppingandimage.com
www.bcnshopping.net
www.bcnstyle.com
www.bgb.es
www.divabarcelona.com
www.muchomasqueunregalo.com
www.senstyle.com
www.notengotiempo.es
www.quemepongo.es

For further information and bookings:
Casa Amatller
Passeig de Gràcia, 41
Tel. 93 487 72 17 (atenció telefònica de dilluns a divendres de 10 a 20h)
amatller@amatller.org
www.amatller.org

The landmark modernista concert hall designed by the Barcelona-born architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and built between 1905 and 1908, celebrates its centenary with a stellar line-up of performers and orchestras who will be playing throughout 2008.

The recently restored concert hall will be hosting 14 special performances to mark its centenary, in addition to its regular season of concerts. These centenary concerts include the jazz singer Bobby McFerrin, who will be performing with the Orfeó Català choir in May, the fusion of flamenco and jazz with the Pat Methany Trio and Enrique Morente, and a concert by Joan Manel Serrat planned for February 2009.

The Palau will also be hosting a Sonar music festival session.

Highlights of the 2008 regular concert season include Riccardo Muti with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinatti Symphony, the Staatskapelle Dresde and a performance by the China Philharmonic.

For further information:
Palau de la Música Catalana
c/ Palau de la Música, 4-6
Tel. 93 295 72 00
taquilles@palaumusica.org
www.palaumusica.org

Admission to the exhibitions at the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona) will be free on Thursdays from 8pm to 10pm.

The CCCB is open Tuesday to Thursday from 11am to 8pm and on Thursdays from 11am to 10pm. It is closed on Mondays, except public holidays.

There are many reasons why the CCCB is a must-see attraction. Located in a former poorhouse, in the Raval district, is an exhibition centre which also organises activities in fields as diverse as music, film, dance and all aspects of artistic experimentation and innovation.

The CCCB also hosts film, music and literature festivals.

Lovers of the latest in music have a date with Barcelona this season. Events kick off with Primavera Sound (www.primaverasound.com), at the Forum Park from 29th to 31st May, which marks the triumphant return to the city of the British band Portishead. It will be the turn of Sonar from 21st to 22nd June (www.sonar.es), with a line-up fronted by some of the leading female acts of the moment, including Goldfrapp, Roisin Murphy, MIA and Camille, and groups from across the musical spectrum.

And to close the circle, Summercase (www.summercase.com), will be back on 18th and 19th July, with the Sex Pistols already confirmed, as well as the Kings of Leon and The Verve.

The “La Caixa” Foundation Cultural Centre in Barcelona will be hosting an interesting series of exhibitions over the coming months which will include Chinese Contemporary Art from 4th June to 7th September 2008 and The Renaissance in the Town of Prato which will be on show from 20th June until 28th September 2008.

In the autumn, Barcelona will be presenting, for the first time in Barcelona, an extraordinary collection of Italian art from the holdings of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Works on display will include 45 masterpieces spanning the 15th to the 17th centuries with paintings by artists such as Botticelli, Luca Signorelli and Luca Giordano among others. The exhibition, entitled The Bread of Angels,can be visited at CaixaForum from 21st October until 8th February 2009.

Other exhibitions planned for 2009 are Joaquim Mir, from 26th February to 31st May 2009 and Richard Rogers & Architects – From the Home to the City from 3rd February to 3rd May 2009.

CaixaForum is open from Monday to Sunday from 10am to 8pm and on Saturdays until 10pm. Admission is free.

For further information:
CaixaForum
Av, Marquès de Comillas, 6-8
Tel. 34 93 476 86 00
www.lacaixa.es/ObraSocial

Barcelona will be hosting the LGTB community European games from 24th and 27th July. The EuroGames were first held in the Hague in 1992 and this is the first time they are being hosted by a southern European city. The participants are mainly gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals from throughout Europe, although anybody from around the world can take part, regardless of their background or sexual orientation.

The event is organised by the Club Esportiu Panteres Grogues and more than 5,000 athletes are expected to take part and over 30,000 visitors to attend during the four-day competition.

A village will be open on the Avinguda Maria Cristina during the day for all the LGTB organisations and supporters of the Eurogames. In the afternoons and evenings, a second village will be set up in the city’s Gayxample district.

The Eurogames Barcelona 08 will open at the Palau Sant Jordi and close with a big party at the Forum precinct.

For further information:
EuroGames – Barcelona 08
Tel. 93 451 00 74
2008@eurogames.info
2008.eurogames.info

In 2010 Barcelona will once again be the departure and arrival point for the second Barcelona World Race, a two-handed, non-stop round the world yachting competition which is held every four years. The Barcelona World Race brings together the world's best professional sailors from both solo and fully crewed disciplines coming together to compete against each other in teams of two.

To mark the 105th anniversary of Harley-Davidson and the 25th anniversary of H.O.G. (Harley Owners Group), Barcelona will be hosting one of the main gatherings of Harley fans from around the world from 10th to 13th July.

The Avinguda Maria Cristina in the centre of Barcelona will be the setting for this unique gathering which is expected to attract over 500,000 visitors and some 15,000 bikers. The area will have a concert stage and a fun time is guaranteed for all.

The star attraction of Barcelona Harley Days ’08 will be the flag parade through the city.

For further information:
www.barcelonaharleydays.com
Tel. 34 932 467 427

The city will be hosting two events for triathlon lovers in 2008:

Triatló Sprint de Barcelona (20th July 2008):
Organisers: CLUB Triatló Marina, in association with Thisplay, San Martí Local Council and the Institut Barcelona Esports.

For further information:
www.tri-trials.com

Triatló Ciutat de Barcelona (5th October 2008):
The new City of Barcelona Triathlon is open to participants at all levels and attracts elite and amateur runners as it features different distances and categories.
Organisers: IMG

For further information:
www.imgworld.com