Random Reasons Why Barcelona Is Together With Thence Cool

Beth of "Besudesu Abroad", mentioned inwards a recent facebook condition that Barcelona's metropolis symbol is a dragon, as well as wrote "How badass is that?". She was expressing her feelings for this amazing city. In this postal service I'll effort to write a few VERY RANDOM reasons why Barcelona is cool!

One of the dragons inwards Parc de la Ciutadella

I'll start amongst a quirky one. In Barcelona you lot tin easily watch groups of sometime Catalan men playing boules. How amazing is that!? While when I was a youngster I used to sneer at sometime men playing this sweetly old-fashioned game inwards my grandfather's hamlet inwards Piedmont, I am forthwith excited whenever I see 'boules' inwards Barcelona. It reminds me of times gone by, of local authentic life, something you lot tin easily perceive inwards Barcelona if you lot stop for a piece as well as gild a café con leche at your local bar around the corner.   

Old men playing boules close Arc de Triomf

Since I arrived here, I own got already been to a film screening on the beach where you lot convey your ain towel as well as your ain food, and I enjoyed an independent pic for gratis inwards a especial setting. Moreover, I own got been to some other of these picnics amongst celluloid inwards Montjuïc, for a fraction of the toll you lot would pay inwards London. Entertainment inwards Barcelona is varied as well as reasonably priced. Even on the beach you lot convey your ain nutrient para picar, which gives you lot the impression of a very laid dorsum metropolis where for the most purpose you lot don't require to move dressed up.

Cinena on the beach inwards Barceloneta

Barcelona is full of foreigners: wherever you lot acquire inwards the city, chances are that you'll come across people from all over the world, as well as non exclusively inwards the most touristic areas. As a affair of fact, Barcelona has a high concentration of people who own got chosen Barcelona equally their home, either because they similar to political party or because they similar the civilisation as well as the language. Castilian people fifty-fifty own got a discussion for light-skinned, blond tourists or residents: guiris.

Tourists as well as locals inwards El Born district


You never know what you lot may find after turning a corner. Yet some other modernist house? Or a futuristic edifice amongst a drinking glass surface? Just await at this picture I took inwards the neighbourhood of Poble Sec, for example. This is El Molino, but it's non simply a kitsch theater that takes its name from its Parisian counterpart. Oh no, it's an actual music hall, where you lot tin lookout adult man a demonstrate piece you lot own got dinner. It's non a recent attraction: its scream was changed from "Pajarera Catalana" to "Petit Moulin Rouge" inwards 1910.

El Molino
 
In some neighbourhoods I caught sight of some amazing street art, like this graffiti I found in Parc del Clot, closed to the futuristic Torre Agbar.

Street fine art inwards El Clot


In order to completely alter the setting from metropolitan to pseudo-rural, ane day I headed towards a peaceful as well as fascinating place, a common inwards the northern purpose of the metropolis amongst a labyrinth inwards the middle, and romantic gardens amongst grottos as well as waterfalls. Parque del Laberinto de Horta was designed betwixt the destination of the 18th as well as the get-go of the 19th century. It costs exclusively 2,23 to acquire inwards as well as it's gratis on Sundays! It used to move a site for open-air theater inwards the 1880s as well as 90s. Surrounded past times a Mediterranean woodland similar much of the city's northern hills, it's a relaxing identify to pass a few hours, breathing the odour of pino trees.

Parc del Laberint de Horta

The restaurants. Oh my god, the restaurants! And I'm non talking close your average tapas identify inwards front end of the Sagrada Familia where the paella is frozen as well as everybody orders sangría without looking around and realizing that locals hardly ever drink it. Since I came here, I've been stuffing myself amongst every form of exciting as well as delicious food: Asian-fusion tapas bars, pintxos from the ever-fascinating Basque Country, or fifty-fifty vegan burgers. All of this for an average toll of 12€ each, vino included! I'm withal dreaming of those wonderfully-garlicky mushrooms amongst edible bean as well as alfalfa sprouts I had at Samsara in the vibrant neighbourhood of Gracia, or the Vietnamese-style dumplings at Mosquito in the hip barrio of El Born. 

Amazing dumplings at Mosquito


Sea as well as mountains, mountains as well as sea. One of my novel friends hither inwards Barcelona said that before she turns xxx she wants to hit a few things. Among them, skiing inwards the mountains as well as bathe inwards the ocean inwards the same day. Incredible equally it may seem, this is possible inwards Barcelona! I haven't been to the mountains yet, but I promise to accept a trip to either Tibidabo or Montserrat sometime soon.

 
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The metropolis beach inwards Barcelona

Plus, I learned to seat upwards sushi!!! I was never a big fan of sushi, preferring to gild ramen or tempura at the Japanese restaurant, but it turns out this was because I ever had mediocre sushi. The sushi I learned to seat upwards amongst my novel flatmates was delicious, as well as real inexpensive too. Overall nosotros paid 6€ each for lots as well as lots of sushi amongst salmon, tuna, surimi, mango, avocado, cheese as well as cucumber. This is the start of a novel life of Japanese dinners for me as well as my friends.

Preparing sushi

Modernist architecture. Gaudí is exclusively the tip of the iceberg: in that location are many other architects who own got shaped the city, for event Luís Domènech i Montaner, who has designed Palau de la Música Catalana. It's a edifice that doesn't acquire equally many tourists equally Casa Battló or Sagrada Familia, but is also lovely as well as immensely interesting.

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Palau de la Música Catalana


Did you lot similar this preview of Barcelona? Do you lot intend the things I mentioned brand the metropolis cool, or produce you lot prefer whatever other European city?

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