2-, 3-, 4- or 5- day card featuring free travel on public transport, and over 100 discounts and free offers at museums, cultural venues, theatres, leisure attractions, night clubs, shops, restaurants, on entertainments, unusual means of transport and other services. Free admission to Las Golondrinas pleasure boats, Mirador de Colom, Torre de Collserola and 13 museums is included.

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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 offer it as a free gift to customers.

The Barcelona Bus Turístic operates on three sightseeing routes: the northbound (red) route, the southbound (blue) route and the Forum route (green). With a one- or two-day ticket, you can travel on all three routes and get on and off the bus as many times as you like. A complete informative guide and a discount voucher booklet to the city’s main landmarks are issued with the ticket.

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 Columbus Monument, the Poble Espanyol, or Spanish Village, on Montjuïc and the Montjuïc Magic Fountain.

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

Buses run daily, except Monday. Departures are guaranteed with prior booking.

Guided walking tours through Barcelona, led by professional guides.

Guaranteed departures. Limited places. Pre-booking is needed. Duration of each route: 2 hours.

Route Gòtic
Discover the city’s history walking around the streets, squares and buildings of the Gothic Quarter

A hire service renting out bicycles by the hour, for half a day, a full day or more. Discover the city and its main tourist attractions as you pedal around the city’s streets. You can hire your bicycle at one point and return it at another

Hire points:

• Mirador de Colom
• Pg. Joan de Borbó

Enjoy panoramic views of the city on board a sailing boat, as you learn basic sailing techniques. Departures are guaranteed with prior booking. Places are limited.

Duration: 2 hours

BARCELONA GOLF gives you the opportunity to play a round of golf with a professional player, on one of the courses around Barcelona. It includes a four-ball game with one, two or three players on a 9- or 18-hole golf course.

In order to take part in this activity the number of player’s licence, as well as pree-booking are needed.

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

It is a panoramic tour of the city’s main tourist landmarks, on 125 cc, automatic scooters, escorted by a guide who talks about the history of the sights on the route: Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló, Pavelló Mies van der Rohe, Poble Espanyol, MNAC, Anella Olímpica, la Ribera, Port Olímpic, Parc del Fòrum.

RETAIL PRICES 2007 and 2008

 Comission for professionals in the tourism sector: 20%

For further information:  productes@barcelonaturisme.com

The Barcelona Science 2007 programme seeks to give the entire city the opportunity to learn about, enjoy and give their opinions on what being involved in science means today, and the impact of its applications to everyday life through a variety of activities and events which will take place in the city throughout the year.

As part of the programme of events, 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 voucher booklet providing admission to these venues throughout 2007: the Ticket Ciència.

The ticket costs 18.50 € and provides admission to all the participating museums and attractions (one visit to each one throughout 2007): Museu de Ciències Naturals, Cosmocaixa, Museu Agbar, Botanical Gardens, Museu Marítim, Zoological Gardens and Museu de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Catalunya.

The 2007 edition of the prestigious Michelin Guide features 14 Barcelona restaurants with one Michelin star:

The exhibition Barcelona & Modernity. Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939) opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on 4th March and will run until 3rd June. The exhibition provides the American public with the opportunity to see the art produced in Barcelona and Catalonia over seven decades, between the Revolution of September 1868 and the end of the Civil War in 1939.

Lee Miller: Picasso in Private opens on 1st June and will run until 16th September.

Picasso’s Private Collection will open on December 2007. With this exhibition, Barcelona’s Picasso Museum will be showcasing the art collection assembled by Picasso throughout his life, which has been part of the holdings of the Musée Picasso in Paris since 1979.

To take advantage of the museum’s group discounts it is essential to pre-book by phone, fax or e-mail. After the booking has been requested, the group leader will receive a letter of confirmation.

The Museum considers a minimum of 10 people a group. Group visits can be made by a maximum of 25 people at a time. Groups of more than 25 people will be divided into smaller groups, entering at 15-minute intervals.

The Passion Façade of the Sagrada Família has been floodlit to mark the 125th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone. This means that both façades of the church will now be floodlit every evening.

This is one of the highlight events marking the 125th anniversary of the Sagrada Família. Throughout the year, different activities will be held to commemorate the inception of the church, such as the dedication of a sculpture of Saint George, by the sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs.

At the beginning of June, the Sagrada Familia will be hosting an exhibition of works by the Japanese architect Kenji Imai, a great admirer of Gaudí’s. A series of lectures about Gaudí will also be held to mark the occasion.

The Palau de la Música Catalan will be celebrating its centenary on 9th February 2008. The Palau was built from private donations to provide a permanent home for the Orfeó Català choir, and is one of the finest examples of Catalonia’s home-grown art nouveau, modernisme, as well as one of the world’s most unusual concert halls. It offers a broad repertoire of music and the other performing arts. The Palau has effectively combined private management by the Orfeó Català Foundation and public management by the Catalan Government, Municipal Council, Regional Council and the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

A new signage system in the city’s Medieval Jewish Quarter – El Call – will be unveiled in June. It will consist of nine informative panels which will make it easier to locate the different points of interest in the area.

The Guide to the History of El Call will be published by Barcelona Municipal Council at the same time. Its contents have been put together by the Museu d’Història in association with the city’s Jewish communities.

The Interpretation Centre of Barcelona’s Medieval Jewish Quarter is expected to open at the end of 2007.

The city’s new music museum, the Museu de la Música, opened on 10th March. Housed on the second floor of the concert hall L’Auditori, it presents its collections of musical instruments and documents in an innovative way, through audiovisual displays. The purpose of the museum is to educate while giving visitors the opportunity to experience, feel and learn about music.

Barcelona offers even more cultural events than usual in the summer, ranging from live concerts in landmark venues, such as La Pedrera, the Fundació Miró and CaixaForum, to night-time tours of the city’s museums, such as the Museu d’Història de la Ciutat and the Museu Egipci.

The Sagrada Família continued to be the most visited attraction in 2006 with 2,542,070 visitors, followed by the science museum, CosmoCaixa, with 1,875,617 visitors, and the Museu del F.C. Barcelona and La Pedrera (Centre Cultural Caixa de Catalunya) which attracted over 1,300,000 visitors.

The Museu Picasso ranked fifth, followed by the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), the Fundació Joan Miró, CaixaFòrum, the Casa-Museu Gaudí and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).

Artchitectours organises guided tours of Barcelona specialising in art and architecture.

Its services include custom-designed itineraries by a specialist architect and the provision of the documents about the chosen route.

The tours come in different formats, ranging from a mini-tour lasting two and a half hours to six-day tours. Different types of transport are available, depending on the number of people and the itinerary.

Throughout 2007, Barcelona Municipal Council will be emphasising the links between science and sport. This is why it has named 2007 Sports Year and is organising the Barcelona Science 2007 programme.

2007 is the 15th anniversary of the 1992 Olympic Games, the foremost sporting event the city has ever hosted. To mark the occasion, the new museum dedicated to sport and the Olympics, the Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport, has been opened next to the Montjuïc Olympic Stadium.

Barcelona commemorates the centenary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Santiago Ramón y Cajal by launching the Barcelona Science 2007 programme, an initiative of Barcelona Municipal Council, which will place special emphasis on the links between the sciences, culture and society.

Barcelona is working to improve accessibility for all and in recent years has made great strides to become a city where everyone can get around, removing architectural barriers in the streets, at municipal facilities and on public transport.

The cities of Barcelona, Alicante, Toulon and Genoa are the joint organisers of the Mediterranean Tall Ships Regatta 2007 in association with Sail Training International.

Barcelona will be the departure and arrival point for the Barcelona World Race (BWR), a new two-handed, non-stop round the world yacht race which will be held every four years. For the first time, the Barcelona World Race will see the world's best professional sailors from both solo and fully crewed disciplines coming together to compete against each other in teams of two.

Barcelona, the heir to the Olympic spirit, is putting all its energies into the creation of a new museum: the Museu Olímpic i dels Esports.

The museum provides a comprehensive historic, recreational, ethical and educational overview of the different sporting disciplines and types, placing special emphasis on new technologies with interactive displays and multimedia installations.

The Circuit de Catalunya race track is running guided tours of its grounds, providing access to restricted areas: paddock, control tower, podium and press offices.

The Circuit de Catalunya, which is located in Montmeló, has hosted the Spanish Formula 1 Grand Prix since 1991, and the World Motorcycle Championship since 1992.

Montmeló has been confirmed as the venue for the Spanish Formula 1 Grand Prix until 2016.

Yacht Temple is a company specialising in the hire of skippered and unskippered motor boats and launches. Boat charters are an interesting way of enjoying the sea at any time and the company also organises a range of tailor-made trips, including night-time sailing, boat hire for dinners and overnight stays and half-day, weekend or seven-day boat hire.

In the bathing area of the Forum you can enjoy new sporting and leisure activities. The company International Lloret Diving Center SL. offers different packages featuring water sports ranging from catamaran, kayak and speedboat trips to diving and courses for beginners in marine biology.

Pre-booking essential.

For further information:
International Lloret Diving Center
Tel: 34 972 346 169
Contact: Roger Mandri
bcnforum@lloretdiving.com

Obrint Via is a company founded by a team of professionals specialising in different areas of knowledge: education and teaching, psychology, history, art, biology and outdoor physical activity and sport in particular.

The agency runs activities for beginners and people wishing to improve their skills in different adventure sports as well as outdoor training activities for private individuals and businesses.

For the first time in 14 years, the Eurogames are being held in a southern European city. The Eurogames are Europe’s most important LGTB sporting event. Its participants are mainly gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals from throughout Europe, although anybody from around the world can take part, regardless of their background and sexual orientation.

The event is organised by the Club Esportiu Panteres Grogues and over 5,000 athletes are expected to take part and over 30,000 visitors to attend during the four-day competition which will take place between 24th and 27th July 2008.

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 date of the 2008 Barcelona Marathon has now been set. It will take place on Sunday 2nd March and registration opens on 2nd July 2007.

The Marathon is the athletics race par excellence. All Olympic cities host their own marathon attracting thousands of participants and spectators and making the event into one big party for the entire community. The next Barcelona Marathon will combine the feats of the participating runners with the different points of entertainment and interest for members of the community who want to see the event live.

The Barcelona Triathlon will be held on 22nd July 2007 and is the final event in the Tri-Trials Series 2007 circuit, which will decide the winner among the finalists who have made it through to this stage. Amateur runners will also be able to take part alongside Spanish triathlon stars.