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.

© 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 include it with the visitors’ travel documents.

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.

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.

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

Buses run daily, except Monday, from April to October and depart from Plaça Catalunya. Departures are guaranteed with prior booking.

Walking tours of Barcelona led by professional guides. 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.

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.

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.

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.

To take part in this activity players must be members of a golf club, have a player’s licence and book in advance.

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.

Ride on 125 cc, automatic scooters, escorted by a guide who talks about the sights on the route: Olympic Marina, Forum Park, Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Casa Batlló, Poble Espanyol, MNAC, Olympic Ring, La Ribera district, Olympic Marina.

Valid on Saturdays throughout the year.

2008 RETAIL PRICE

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!!

2007 RETAIL PRICE: 17€

Commission for the travel trade: 20%

Turisme de Barcelona has launched a new programme, Barcelona Gastronomy, to promote the city’s culinary offering as one of its tourist attractions.

The programme features 126 member-restaurants who play an active part in promoting the city. The publication Barcelona Restaurant Map includes information about the city’s best dining options. A booking service has also been set up where you will find the restaurants that best suit your needs, according to type of food, area, price...

Further information: www.barcelonaturisme.com

Seven science museums and visitor attractions in Barcelona and its metropolitan area have joined forces to offer a combined ticket providing admission to these venues: the Ticket Ciència. The ticket comes in the form of a voucher booklet and provides one-time admission, at any time of the year, to each of the participating museums and attractions: 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 Ticket Ciència can be purchased at any of the museums and attractions, at the Turisme de Barcelona tourist information office in Plaça de Catalunya and the on-line shop on the Turisme de Barcelona website:

www.barcelonaturisme.cat

Price 2007: 18,50 €

The collection is on show in a building on the Passeig de Gràcia, next to La Pedrera, which used to be the Suñol family home.

The Foundation has set up an exhibition space, Nivell Zero, where young artists will have the opportunity to show their works.

Opening times:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 4pm - 8pm
Closed: Thursday, Sunday and public holidays

Standard admission: 4 € / reduced admission: 2 €

Hotel Astoria
París, 203
08036 Barcelona
Tel 932 098 311
Fax 932 023 008
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Housed in a former art-nouveau factory designed by Puig i Cadafalch, CaixaForum has become one of Barcelona’s most dynamic, active and vibrant cultural centres. Its current and forthcoming exhibitions include:

Sculpture in Indian Temples, co-organised with the British Museum in London, which runs until 18th November. This is the most important exhibition to date devoted to Indian figurative sculpture.

From 15th June to 28th September 2008 the MNAC will be hosting the exhibition Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, organised by Tate Modern, London. This exhibition will bring to Barcelona some 300 works revealing the main themes explored by these artists during their Dadaist period.

The exhibition will bring together paintings, objects – including Duchamp’s famous ready-mades –, photographs and film reflecting the shared world of these artists.

Further information: www.mnac.cat

Barcelona offers lovers of musicals three top-calibre shows. Cabaret (www.stage.es), set in a Berlin nightclub in 1931, as the Nazis began their rise to power, has been on at the Apolo since the end of September and ends its run at the end of January 2008.

The Teatre Victòria is staging the musical Grease (www.greaseelmusical.com), made famous on the big screen by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John.

Finally, Mamma Mia! (www.stage.es), the musical based on Abba’s greatest hits, will be on at the Barcelona Teatre Musical from 26th November.

Barcelona will play host to the 12th Festival of New and Pocket Opera from 24th October to 25th November 2007 at different venues around the city.

This year’s festival will premiere four new operas by Lleonard Balada, Joan Albert Amargós, Toni Rumbau, Agustí Charles, March Rosich, Jordi Rossinyol and Albert Mestres. The festival will also be staging productions from around the world. Also this year, as part of the programme of events at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair, the festival will be presenting a series of performances, Dies d’Òpera Catalana, at the Staatheater Darmstadt.

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 top professional sailors from both solo and fully crewed disciplines coming together to compete against each other in teams of two.

The Circuit de Catalunya is giving the public the opportunity to explore its facilities on a bicycle route and to take a guided tour which includes restricted-access areas.

This service is available at weekends and on public holidays if no competitions have been scheduled on those days. The first part of the tour consists of a bicycle ride around the track through the public stands which have been converted for the occasion into bicycle lanes, with views of the grandstand and track.

The 2008 Barcelona Marathon will take place on Sunday 2nd March.

The Marathon is the athletics race par excellence and attracts thousands of participants and spectators, making the event into one big party for the entire community. The Barcelona Marathon has attracted a great deal of interest from around the world and takes the runners on an extremely interesting route.