La muestra Arte en la calle, Auguste Rodin en Barcelona, reúne en Rambla de Catalunya siete esculturas monumentales del Museo Rodin de París: El Pensador (que el maestro concibió en un inicio para formar parte del grupo escultórico de La Puerta del Infierno pero que acabó cobrando vida autónoma), y seis estudios de los seis prohombres que conforman el Monumento a los burgueses de Calais. La exposición forma parte del programa Arte en la calle, una iniciativa pionera de la Obra Social ”la Caixa” que ya ha permitido ver en Barcelona dos exposiciones al aire libre de Manolo Valdés e Igor Mitoraj. El objetivo de este ciclo es el de sacar el arte de las salas de exposiciones, devolverlo al espacio público y provocar un diálogo con la arquitectura. Nunca mejor dicho en el caso de Rodin, quien concibió sus esculturas para ser expuestas al aire libre.
Las siete esculturas monumentales que componen la exposición Arte en la calle. Auguste Rodin en Barcelona, comisariada por Hélène Marraud, del Museo Rodin de París, están instaladas en Rambla de Catalunya –entre las calles de Consell de Cent y Diputació- y se podrán ver del 18 de diciembre de 2009 al 6 de febrero de 2010
Transfer & Private City Tour (Airport-Ship / Ship-Airport / Hotel-Ship / Ship-Hotel)
This is the best option when your flight/ship arrives early and you have time to see the city before your departure.
CRUISE TOUR: on your arrival at Barcelona airport, your local Official Guide will be waiting for you with a sign with your name on it and you will start the tour:
* Barcelona 4 hours city tour
This visit will include all the most interesting spots in Barcelona. We can start the tour in Plaza de España to see the buildings constructed specially for the Universal Exhibition of 1929. Then we shall drive up the mountain called Montjuïc, passing the Pueblo Español or Spanish Village and up to the Olympic Stadium for the 1992 Games. After a stop to visit the Olympic Stadium, we will continue to a great vantage point from which you can see the whole city. After a pause there, we will continue to take a walk around the city’s most famous street, namely Paseo de Gracia, where you can see some of the works by the famous architect, Gaudí. A tour of two of his houses, Casa Batlló and the Casa Milá and then on to the Sagrada Familia (the Gaudí Cathedral still under construction). A visit to the front of this spectacular church and then a visit to the old town known as the Barrio Gótico or Gothic Quarter. A stroll through to Barcelona’s mediaeval Cathedral and the surrounding squares. Other option is visit the Park Güell, also designed by Gaudí. End of the tour at the pier.
Price per tour:
Monday to Friday:
1 or 2 people: 375€ + 16% tax
From 3 up to 6 people: 415€ + 16% tax
Saturday & Sunday:
1 or 2 people: 395€ + 16% tax
From 3 up to 6 people: 450€ + 16% tax
This price includes:
- Private transport in a minivan
- Local official guide ( English / French or Spanish speaking. Please ask for other languages)
Admission fees NOT included
BOOKING:
If you are interested on booking, please send us an email to info@livebarcelona.com with the following information:
- Group’s Name
- Number of people
- Tour’s date
- Flight details
- Language
- Credit card details (Only VISA and MASTER CARD). Do not forget to send the exp date
BOOKING CONDITIONS:
- Reservation must be done 7 days prior to your arrival.
- Payment by credit card
- RESERVATION NOT REFUNDABLE
Yesterday night the Football club Barcelona won its third Champions League against Manchester United of Mr. Cristiano Ronaldo and Sir Alex Ferguson. The red-blue team played its best style, like no other can do right now in the world, and finish an incredible year with the three most important titles: Liga (Spanish Championship), King’s Cup (of Spain) and the Champions League.
Congratulations to the team, players and all supporters from all over the world!
From several years ago, during the spring season Barcelona has the privilege of being in the top list of cities of the world that receive and organize some of the world’s major sports events.
Some examples are: “Trofeo Conde de Godó” Tennis Tournament (once again the 2009 winner is our local ATP number 1 Rafa Nadal), Formula1 “Gran Premio de España” (8, 9 and 10th of May), Champions League with our soccer team, F.C.Barcelona playing the Final against the Manchester United next May 27th in Rome and MOTOGP “Gran Premio de Catalunya” on June 14th.
This important sports offer can be, most of the times, the trip complement for many of the visitors that come to Barcelona now or even, in some other cases, is just the reason why they come to our city. If you need any kind of information or advising regarding these events, do not hesitate in asking us:
Sant Jordi (St. George) is the National Heroe of Catalonia. The legend explains he fighted against the dragon and rescued the beautiful princess.
This date is very popular in Catalonia - and all the Catalans we are very proud of it- because represents the esence and rooths of the Catalan nation and its culture. In the past decades, the marketing has amplified the international impact of this special tradition: men give a rose as a present to women and women give a book, as well as a present, to men. An special reccommendation if you are in Barcelona this date: go for a walk to the Ramblas street in the evening and enjoy with the flowers and books shops in the middle of the street. For sure you will be impressed and even you will feel as a local!
Last week was presented in the Agbar Tower the new touristic bus service, managed by a private company. This new offer will cover with 20 buses an area that was not showed til now: the new Barcelona which means the districts between the new Diagonal Street and the Forum, all in the north seaside of the city. The Barcelona Council offers with this initiative a complete touritic offer with this kind of two decks buses. Prices are around 21 € although may change depending on the season and the start point is located in Plaza de Catalunya.
The Barcelona harbour has reached a new record of cruises passengers in 2008 when 2.014.141 people came to Barcelona to take a Mediterranean cruise.
This increase in the traffic of passengers, confirm Barcelona as the leading European harbour and fifth in the world, behind the four Caribean harbours of Miami, Port Canaveral, Everglades and Cozumel.
On 2007 this harbour reached a total of 1.698.028 passengers, so the evolution in 2008 has been clearly positive with a 18.62 % of net increase. Besides this, the number of cruises that have come to Barcelona has also grown in a 9,1%, which means a total of 863 ships. One of the reasons of this great success apart of the importance of Barceloa in the Mediterranean sea and its great touristic and historic offer, is the change in the seasonality of this industry that has extended itself to autumn and winter. This is the case of companies like MSC, Costa, Norwegian Cruise and Royal Caribbean with whom LiveBarcelona works through indirect alliances.
Enjoy and discover the Vicky Cristina Barcelona movie placements
As you may know, the latest Woody Allen film has been awarded and recognized worldwide and has become the definitive opportunity for Penelope Cruz, who has won an Oscar for her character in this movie. The movie has been produced in Barcelona and also in Oviedo (Asturias, north of Spain).
In LiveBarcelona we know that events like this generate a lot of interest and some clients and friends suggested us to design a special tour in which we can show the main locations that appear in this famous movie. We have done it in the past with bestsellers like “La sombra del viento” or “El juego del angel” of Carlos Ruiz Zafón www.carlosruizzafon.com both taking place in Barcelona and we have adapted the same idea for the Vicky Cristina Barcelona movie www.vickycristinabarcelonalapelicula.es In this special tour, we will be able to visit the most important places like the Arts Hotel, the Barcelona Harbour and specially the “Moll de la Marina” where there is an scene just in front of the “Peix d’Or” (the golden fish statue of Mr. Frank Gehry), the “Paseo Marítimo”, the “Barceloneta restaurant”, the “Paseo Colón” (with the statue of Columbus), the “Vía Layetana”, the “Pedrera Gaudi’s building”, the “Ramblas” (just between the Hospital and Carmen streets) and the modernist restaurant “Els quatre Gats” www.4gats.com as some of the interesting places you could visit in this special tour. We hope you will find it interesting!!
Live Barcelona has a wide experience in Educational tours.
We propose a tour for students. Teach your students about Modernism as they visit the main Gaudi´s buildings.
They will enjoy the tour and learn about Barcelona, its History, art, culture and traditions.
We have the best guides for your groups. We will organize the itinerary best suit their interest. We customize the program with the teachers and tour leaders.
Your students will always remember the lessons they learned in Barcelona !!
Last Saturday we were working with a VIP group from Discovery Communications from USA and we were visiting the most important Gaudí’s work: the “Sagrada Familia”, still under construction. We attend at the auditorium of the museum to a very interesting speach about the construction of the building and we also went into the plaster worshop area, that is not open to the public.
It was a very nice experience for the group and for us as well!
The Sagrada Familia Church was started on 1882 and it is still under construction. Once it will be finished will have 3 façades and 18 towers. By the moment there are only 2 façades and 8 towers. We need about 20 more years to finish it!
If you are interested on it, let us know it and we will prepare a special tour for you!
